Poem - The Kingdom Code

[Northboy]

The Kingdom Code
By: Graham Robert Stanley

To find the balance
Between want and need
In harmony with Creation
To ignore the call
Of our lesser selves
Or the dark side's salutation

To give thanks for our blessings
And ask what we can do in return
To spend our days in collaboration
Away from competition's fiery burn

To respect our brother's right to livelihood
And tame the merchant beast
To remember who are first
In our good King's eyes
And remember who are least

 

[darkbeaver]

nice

 

[In Between Man]

It is too late!

Is is too late! Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles
Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides
Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers,
When each had numbered more that fourscore years...

Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales,
At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales;

Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last,
Completed Faust when eighty years were past.

These are indeed exceptions, but they show
How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow
Into the Artic regions of our lives...
For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress;

And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was one of the most popular American poets of the nineteenth century.
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[gopher]

Splendid poetry.

 

[Northboy]

Thanks for the poem and nice feedback.