It is true that with each generation, we pass on many wondrous gifts and achievements that add to life’s quality. These include more advanced technological advancements, increased development of more advanced scientific discoveries, more creative procedural practices for better attrition of products, and countless other improvements. However, the down side is that sometimes we fail to pass many fundamentally sound bits and pieces or even greater foundational values that undermine rather than undergird for the sole logic that these values are “outdated” or “not useful or relative to people’s lifestyle anymore. This may be true in values that affect our lives insignificantly, but can be most detrimental if contrast negatively with what our country’s’ heritage was founded.
Point in Hand.
The founding fathers of the United States in their Declaration of Independence (1776), United States Constitution (1787), and the Bill of Rights (1791) were written to establish a sovereign nation based upon natural rights, equally, and the rule of law and the pursuit of happiness. Of these, first and foremost, The Declaration of Independent invokes God, the Creator, “Nature’s God,” and “devine Providence”. Our Pledge of Alliance adopted in 1954 the phrase “under God”. These documents have been our guidelines and the epitome of our great country. Any change in our God-given values, our relationship individually to the Creator and Godhead, acknowledging all honor, due praise, and respect toward our Creator, Founder, Provider, Overseer and Savior will affect our lives individually and nation as a whole.
Secondarily, many of our citizens seem to have regressed from many instructional strategies learned from previous generations necessary for achievement, retention, and usefulness for continual maintenance in fields of student development as verified by national and international test score evaluation.
I am only focusing on one small field of learning here from experiences outside my home state after retirement. In my last year of classroom instruction, I witnessed an almost denial of writing skills, cursive penmanship fluency, and loss of desire and ability for creative expression.
My focus today is “to reboot” or “rekindle” a lost art or talent; writing expression in the form of poetry that is enjoyable, self-expressive, and instills self-gratification and achievement.
Read, enjoy, and delve into the expression of oneself by “any” form of poetry, rhyme or no rhyme, short or lengthy.
Suggested goals are: rhyme is easier for the readers, so are short lines and not long ones;
subjects are universal; have a concluding point from the lines above, an end result of the written;
try “catchy” thoughts and humorous phrases that hold the reader’s attention as it is being read. There is no wrong or right way to write a poem. One guarantee is that when you get the poem completed the way that you thought about it before starting, you “will know within yourself” if it is what you wanted.
Sower's Field by L. Michael Schoonover 