Qualifieed by Experience

A poem in tercets

 

Qualified by experience.

 

The university of life

 does not award fancy degrees.

Nor does it charge tuition fees.

 

Enrols you automatically

 at birth involuntarily.

Provides the opportunity.

 

To learn by hard experience.

The lessons that you need to know.

The trials you must undergo.

 

The challenges you have to face.

Determine if you pass or fail.

What matters is that you prevail.

 

Pursue your dreams relentlessly.

Success or failure’s up to you

You will receive what you are due.

 

No more no less than what you’ve earned.

With life experience as your guide

 you face the future qualified.

 

To over come the obstacles

 which are imposed by circumstance.

At least you have a fighting chance.

 

Paper degrees don’t guarantee

 that you can face adversity.

 And win hands down defiantly.

 

Unlike life’s university.

Which teaches you what you can do

 to overcome what troubles you.

 

06/08/2009

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Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

Excellent beyond reproach

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High five, to the sentiment of the poem and to the real skill used in bringing it all together so so poetically. Am I the only one that thinks a poem should rhyme??

Spoken as only an ex officer could tell it. All the experience of life dwells in them there lines. The truth of how it is in the jungle we carve a path through.

I hope you get to mix with the young as your story is worth telling.