Thursday, March 14, 2013

Ethics

The prompt today over at dversepoets.com is to write in the form of a Cinquain.
 
Definition
Cinquain:
five-line poem;
twenty-two syllables
laid out two, four, six, eight, then two
again.
 
Yesterday I got a book from the library on ethics. Being that ethics can become a very wordy subject, I thought it would make a good topic for this prompt...
 
 
 
 
ethics…
internal war
right or wrong who’s to say
nothing learned, nothing taught, sight gone
 
judgment
 
 


12 comments:

  1. wow you went deep.
    who defines right or wrong.
    is it a personal thing or collective
    and in the end who is responsible for judgement
    well we could unpack those few words six ways to sunday...smiles.

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  2. ...all depends who's judging I guess. Well done!

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  3. You gave yourself a big challenge...ethics in a cinquain, and you wrote a wonderful piece.

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  4. i wish we would learn more from history... and that we wouldn't be so quick with judging but trying to understand people more.. well penned

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  5. ..i have same thoughts as Margaret here... i think it all depends on who make the judgement at the end... smiles...

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  6. Of very wise saying. But of course there are persons whose judgements I trust as little as their morals... Ethics should go beyond that.

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  7. I like your approach. Good to take a wordy subject and condense it! Well done!

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  8. Lots to ponder here. I think in our gut we know what's right and wrong... we just have to be aware.

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  9. Excellent! You nailed the form and the topic!

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  10. ouch... someone needs to be listening

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  11. Huge topic, reduced to its essentials. Brilliant.

    Please would you put (C) 2013 A B Maude by the Definition - that is an original piece that I wrote. Thanks ... smiles

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  12. This would be a great bumper sticker and Congress should read it...;)

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