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Samurai Honor

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It's becoming progressively harder to admire any leadership. Might those in power be so removed from honor that it may never return?

Monday, January 27, 2014


Poem Artwork
Samurai Honor
by Odin Roark

He wandered about
Finding that reason
To commit
To dedicate
To protect

What was it
Where might the purpose be
Why was it important
Who needed such integrity

Thus

Came the spirit of the samurai
Willing to be wounded
Embracing his own spilt blood
Honor prevailing
At any cost

By the river’s edge
He did bleed
Losing life as he knew it
Yet those he protected
Respectfully bowed their heads
Even as they too died



      


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Reviewed by Michael True
Reviewed on January 29, 2014
There is no honor, especially among thieves. Political life has become a game to be won for the glorification of self and selfish causes. And this, while the people insist on their ignorance, distancing themselves, as if disassociation would lessen the chance that they might be robbed yet another time. M.True

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on January 28, 2014
I find "honor" to be a difficult word for me, because so many have been honored for despicable acts that were considered heroic because they were made by the winning side with God on its side. As far as leadership goes, people have always followed dictators more easily than compromisers because dictators always gave a clear direction, right or wrong, and many people are very uncomfortable with indecision based on mixed information. Unfortunately, unless one is galvanized, life today is not clearly black or white, or even red or blue. There are still shades of gray that we have to endure until we reach clarity.

Ron

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on January 28, 2014
Honor!? Please, don't make me laugh.

Reviewed by Jansen Estrup
Reviewed on January 28, 2014
Honor, like love, dies when a price is affixed to everything 'cept that which cannot be commodified. That 'product' is dropped from the marketplace. You raise such great ideas for my breakfast!

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on January 28, 2014
there are not many with the aura of honor any more
budd


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