AuthorsDen.com   Join | Login    
Where Authors and Readers come together!

SIGNED BOOKS    AUTHORS    BOOKS    SAMPLE CHAPTERS    AUDIOBOOKS    eBOOKS    STORIES    ARTICLES    POETRY    BLOGS    NEWS    VIDEOS    SUCCESS    TESTIMONIALS

Featured Authors:  William Martell, iElisabeth Barstowe, iShirley Francis-Salley, iKarin Adams, iValerie Boggess, iBruce Humphrey, iTeresa Walker, iFrank Whyte, iMargaret Evans, iCharlene Proctor, i

  Home > Philosophy > Poetry        Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry        Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     

larry r linville

 Follow Me  

· Contact Me
· Articles
· Poetry
· Stories
· 546 Titles
· 2,566 Reviews
· Save to My Library
· Share with Friends!
·
Member Since: Aug, 2007

larry r linville, click here to update your pages on AuthorsDen.



New House -- Old Barn
by larry r linville → (All Poetry by larry r linville)
   Rated "G" by the Author.
Share   Print  Save   Follow   Share on Facebook

Let me share one bit a wisdom from my dad that would be helpful more today.

 

 
When in a car riding down the road
as a young boy with my dad
he pointed out many things to me
which were both good and bad.
 
It was his way of transferring
his values on to me.
He knew the words were much better
if there were objects I could see.
 
At a farm with a modern house
and barn that had seen better days
he said they had it all backwards
because a new house never pays.
 
When one builds a barn and property
they will bring income to the place
then there will be enough money
that a new house one could embrace.
 
Infrastructure is our country’s barn
and education grows the crops
which build a solid foundation
and prosperity that never stops.
 
We need to get priorities straight
like those farmers in days of yore
and put the horse ahead of the cart
and find what bring joys galore.
 

Want to review or comment on this poem?


Need a FREE Reader Membership?


 Reviews of "New House -- Old Barn"
Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on March 7, 2011
I think there is wisdom in what you have shared through your verses here, Larry. Thank you. Love and peace,

Regis

Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on March 5, 2011
Very wise thinking.

Cheers,
Dan

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on March 4, 2011
Oh how wise of your father. A structure to pass on to all today because it does appear that some have the rules all backwards...

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on March 4, 2011
Hey don't tell my other half about that idea with regards the building of a barn & such cause she will want to have a nice barn before we even have a house to live in...and I am tired of living in my motorhome...;-) e

Reviewed by Donna Chandler
Reviewed on March 4, 2011
This is a well-written, intelligent piece of poetry with an important message. Well done!

Donna


New Poetry by larry r linville
Popular Poetry (Philosophy)
  1.  Value of Humility
  2.  Rainbow-Song 2025 (Part 3)
  3.  Accepting Yourself
  4.  heavvy fogg
  5.  Float Your Boat
  6.  What Do I Want?
  7.  Until....
  8.  Falling Off the Mountain
  9.  Land of the Living
  10.  Houses of Cards
  11.  Uncounted
  12.  Footprints in the Snow
  13.  Chapters
  14.  Who I Am
  15.  The 'Voice of Reason' Contends...
  16.  The Fugitive Facets of Being (Faith)
  17.  Power
  18.  Different
  19.  The Dabbler
  20.  Sidewalk Chalk Drawings {for Emma}
Free Book Review Program
Select a book to read and review today!

Future: The Spiritual Story of Humanity by Glenn Martin

Histories of the world are generally written to either celebrate technology and science, or to herald doom. My book examines the path of the spirit in the onward rush.  
Member BookAds

Enlightenment Dialogues: A Journey of Post-metaphysical Onliness Awake by Martin Treon

This combined narrative dialogue and play is about the uncreated, unborn and undying transcendent Self of God-consciousness and Buddha-nature. It describes an odyssey of transcendent Consciousness Awakening and Remembrance.  
Member BookAds

Free Download - Bioethics and Population by Sam Vaknin

Issues in the ethics and practice of demography and bioengineering - population control, the right to life, cloning, and abortion.  
Member BookAds