In A Time

values, life lessos & simple pleasures

In a world that doesn't know right from wrong 

in a place of unrest where transgressions rank

in a time of latchkey kids with automated techno eyes

how will we teach our children, essence of blueberry pie

baseball cards and wild flowers growing random in march

                                                               

                                                      

 

frieda 

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I tried to teach my children right from wrong. The kids of today don't have concern for the future. Something had happen. World had change. Great dreams are rarely spoke. I hope my child have the chance to have fun. Learn love and travel. It is a scary world we left for our kids. Thank you for the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[Frieda P]

Thanks Coyote, in light of what transpired over this weekend, I think we certainly need to instill some of those good old fashioned values in our kids again...

[Pax]

a wonderful life lesson here...
yes, seems like today's generation are more into computer...
even i myself guilty of that... for i myself got too caught up with technologies that i or we forgot to see the beauty of our nature or is it still blooming like the ever green forest... my point is we forgot to explore life's hidden challenges .... this is awesome work ms. F

[Frieda P]

I too am guilty of that at times, but seems our children have never had the chance to revel in the beauty of nature to begin with...thank you kind Pax

[LA Lorena]

Sadly, the times they are a-changing. Too much time spent in front of screens that do all the thinking for us, and take us away from experiencing things for ourselves. A most poignant write Frieda, full of wisdom and truth. This was well thought out and nicely done. I hand you the shoe of honour!

[Frieda P]

Yes they are Bob, I was hoping you'd read this after that last disaster ;-)
Woohoo, the shoe of honor, I'm truly touched. Thanks friend...

[LA Lorena]

LOL. They are never disasters. The fact is that some are better than others. That's all. We must never lose sight that good or bad, it is often an expression of someone's inner feelings, and can't be dismissed or judged too harshly for that reason alone. I come back to many I have posted after a long time, and realize I smell shite, my own. Still, I leave them there as a testament to what I felt at that particular time. I can then learn something from them. Fool's Gold may not be valuable, but it is still a mineral, and has it's place. :)

[Frieda P]

Such a wise woman, I knew I liked you for a reason...always learn something new with you, sometimes it's deep like shoes, sometimes it's just a riddle ;-)

[luviva]

wow, so simple brief yet intense with meaning'
you are right though, in a time we wont even be able to taleof the tales when we went to scholl and we had to scribble on paper, or tell of how we played dodge ball for fun when we were young.
we wont get the chance to because of the high rate at which the technology is advancing!!
great write my friend!
absolutely enjoyed reading it

[Frieda P]

Are you kidding, even without modern technology our schools are sabotaging our kids, there's no dodge ball allowed any longer, they don't teach cursive, wtf, and there's no winning or losing teams...either we're throwing our children to the wolves or coddling them from real life, seems to be no happy medium here. Thanks so much for your kind words.

[DrD]

We won't. The times have passed and with them went the true quality of life. We stole their imagination with television and internet, homogenized them in a school system bent upon producing academic clones and abandoned them within the household. How lucky we were. I could never say to my kids that I wanted them to have what I didn't. I wanted them to have what I had. Great message poem of current conditions saying something that certainly needed to be said.

[Frieda P]

That does make me sad, I do feel the time has passed for so many of them...I wonder once this frenzied, over-processed world explodes if it'll go back to simpler times...thanks DrD.

[David Scott]

I loved the poem. Very to the point and gentle with a touch of longing.
I think we can teach our children the best parts of what it means to be human with our love and kindness. The soul can see that right and wrong live in this world. Let them learn from you how to love thru transgressions. Let them watch you marvel over those flowers and relish even the first small bite of pie...

[Frieda P]

My children are grown, I see it all too often though at my childcare center, kids the age of four have their own computers in their rooms, playing adult wargames and seeing things we didn't even know existed...I agree with what you say but these days people are too busy to even stop and smell the coffee themselves. I thank you kindly for your review and your visit..

[william keepers]

Nice write Frieda. You have captured, rather sadly, innocence lost. We all lose our innocence at some point I guess, but kids these days are losing it sooner. How nice it would be to return to simpler times...

[Frieda P]

Not only are they losing it sooner, they're never able to partake in it in the first place it seems, born into this age of too much, too fast, knowledge and the ugly side of life at their disposal, a click away..I thank you kindly for your review and stopping by.

[ms. barrie]

i agree with zainul, this is a wonderful write, very insightful poem, with great flow, love it :) 100-100

[Frieda P]

Thanks, something different for me, I tried not to be so wordy and drawn out, hard to do when you can't stop talking lol :)

[ms. barrie]

Lol if you want wordy then read my stuff, lovely poem and your poems are never wordy nor drawn out (unlike mine) xoxo

[zainul]

What a wonderful write!
Congratulations,Frieda!!!
100/100

[Frieda P]

Wow, thank you so much...glad you liked it :)

[kelvin]

nice piece of writing boy boy boy kids these days and society's strict rules on teaching and punishing your kids to help guide them what to do what to do i often hear the saying what happened to the good old days

[Frieda P]

hmmm there's good old values but the good old 'punishment' was not a good thing...no one should ever raise their hand to a child...thanks for the review

[kelvin]

i agree, with that but there's other ways of punishing your kids without abusing your kids we must raise them with morals and good values of how to act and treat others and don't let them just run hog wild I was punished and I wasn't abused and i never been in trouble growing up but that's not always the case so as in the statement what happened to the good old days that/s what I mean the good minus the bad my heart goes out to the abused because it's not worth it or right

[Renée]

So true & in a world where everything seems upside down...there lies the secret... Our children..We as parents need to take time to teach them what We know to be important... Sweet piece of writing !

[Frieda P]

I agree, kids are our future as they say...they grow up so fast these days though...thanks for the visit. :)