Judge Not The Lost Lambs
Inner city can hide some ugly truths... a poem -*NOTES*32 total reviews
Comment from Joan E.
Thank you for reminding us that most of us "have not walked the mile" and must be kind and not judgmental. I admired your story poem in rhymed couplets in quatrains and your "river" and "ferns" similes. Here's to preventing desperate acts- Joan
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Thank you for reminding us that most of us "have not walked the mile" and must be kind and not judgmental. I admired your story poem in rhymed couplets in quatrains and your "river" and "ferns" similes. Here's to preventing desperate acts- Joan
Comment Written 30-Nov-2015
Comment from barbara.wilkey
I have often wondered about the riches of rich people. If they only gave 10% of their earning the homeless and starving would be better off and the rich people wouldn't even miss the 10%. Why not?
reply by the author on 29-Nov-2015
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I have often wondered about the riches of rich people. If they only gave 10% of their earning the homeless and starving would be better off and the rich people wouldn't even miss the 10%. Why not?
Comment Written 29-Nov-2015
reply by the author on 29-Nov-2015
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I agree. It wouldn't even have to be 10% - 1% from every billionaire would make huge difference. ...sigh... we can dream...
Thanks, Barbara!
Comment from Ulla
Oh, Dawn this is just such a beautiful poem. Yes it is so hard on so many who have absolutely nothing. Lets not be judgemental. So well said. It brought tears to my eyes. All the bes.t Ulla
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Oh, Dawn this is just such a beautiful poem. Yes it is so hard on so many who have absolutely nothing. Lets not be judgemental. So well said. It brought tears to my eyes. All the bes.t Ulla
Comment Written 29-Nov-2015
Comment from boxergirl
Totally agree with your message in this one. We can not even pretend to know what some people may be going through unless we have walked a mile in their shoes.
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Totally agree with your message in this one. We can not even pretend to know what some people may be going through unless we have walked a mile in their shoes.
Comment Written 28-Nov-2015
Comment from GWinterwin
Such a sad but realistic poem about a homeless, and desperate mother. Good word flow and rhyming make it easy to read and relate to. Yes many times the church can't do enough, but our government gives billions that could help feed her and family to countries that bomb and kill us.
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Such a sad but realistic poem about a homeless, and desperate mother. Good word flow and rhyming make it easy to read and relate to. Yes many times the church can't do enough, but our government gives billions that could help feed her and family to countries that bomb and kill us.
Comment Written 28-Nov-2015
Comment from sibhus
Judge not for you shall be judged. A wonderful poem that says so much about the way things are in this world. I honestly have no clue as to how I would survive if I was to become homeless. A wonderful poem.
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Judge not for you shall be judged. A wonderful poem that says so much about the way things are in this world. I honestly have no clue as to how I would survive if I was to become homeless. A wonderful poem.
Comment Written 28-Nov-2015
Comment from Sandra Stoner-Mitchell
This is true for far too many people, Dawn, and there isn't much they can do for themselves. The state of the world at the moment has made it so much worse too, with millions leaving their own country and trying to hopefully make a new life in another country. Excellent poem, my friend. :) Sandra xxx
reply by the author on 28-Nov-2015
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This is true for far too many people, Dawn, and there isn't much they can do for themselves. The state of the world at the moment has made it so much worse too, with millions leaving their own country and trying to hopefully make a new life in another country. Excellent poem, my friend. :) Sandra xxx
Comment Written 28-Nov-2015
reply by the author on 28-Nov-2015
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I know. You are so right. I fear so greatly for Canada right now, and yet I have no idea what else we can do as a country founded on immigration, as people with any compassion. Our Prime minister is determined that we will accommodate 25,000 refugees as close to this year's end as possible, most of whom will end up in cities already under tremendous pressure for housing and health care, among other things. Toronto, for example, is expected to be one of the main cities accepting them, and our public transportation is a joke, our infrastructure crumbling with age, with no money to address these things.
Sigh...there are homeless sleeping on subway grates in the dead of winter, poverty so bad I do not exaggerate when I say each and every time I step outside my door someone has a hand outstretched.
I'm honestly worried. Thank you, my friend.
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It is the same here, people sleeping out in the streets, soup vans going around trying to help, there are not enough places to give these poor people a bed for the night, so they have to sleep out in the cold. I am sure there will be many deaths this year. And still more people are coming in. The governments have to sort this sad affair out and get these poor people back into their own country, get rid of those terrorists! Why does the Devil;s army always seem to come out on top? :( xx
Comment from Realist101
Oh Dawn...so sad. I know...there are way too many who have nothing...my old house is a castle to some and I hate it anyway. I wish I could save the world, but I can't even save myself. You have a wonderful heart my friend. And great talent too. x.
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Oh Dawn...so sad. I know...there are way too many who have nothing...my old house is a castle to some and I hate it anyway. I wish I could save the world, but I can't even save myself. You have a wonderful heart my friend. And great talent too. x.
Comment Written 28-Nov-2015
Comment from Dean Kuch
Judge not lest ye be judged likewise, right, Dawn?
It's true, unless you've walked the paths that those whom you feel you're qualified to judge--which we should never do--have walked, and worn the same torn and tattered shoes they have made their journey in, we haven't any right to cast judgment upon anyone, regardless of their circumstances.
Besides, that chore has been taken on with One whose shoulders are much broader than our own.
Well done. A sad slice of reality in rhyme...
~Dean
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Judge not lest ye be judged likewise, right, Dawn?
It's true, unless you've walked the paths that those whom you feel you're qualified to judge--which we should never do--have walked, and worn the same torn and tattered shoes they have made their journey in, we haven't any right to cast judgment upon anyone, regardless of their circumstances.
Besides, that chore has been taken on with One whose shoulders are much broader than our own.
Well done. A sad slice of reality in rhyme...
~Dean
Comment Written 27-Nov-2015
Comment from Bill Schott
This poem puts the human face on disparate times for those with no one on their side. Families can't just be about surviving from day to day. It's sad we only seem to think of the needy when it's in contrast pot the seasonal happy spirit. Nice poem.
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This poem puts the human face on disparate times for those with no one on their side. Families can't just be about surviving from day to day. It's sad we only seem to think of the needy when it's in contrast pot the seasonal happy spirit. Nice poem.
Comment Written 27-Nov-2015
