Michael Jackson Tribute Poem: Our Inspirational Song

As an artist Michael Jackson inspired me in so many ways, through the passion he had for his art, through the perfection with which he performed his art and most of all through his inspirational songs and messages. Like millions of Michael Jackson fans around the world I am saddened by the death of Michael Jackson, but I console myself with the fact that he will forever live on in his music. This is a poem tribute to Michael Jackson and his inspirational life and songs.



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Our Inspirational Song: A Michael Jackson Tribute PoemBy Injete Chesoni

You lit up the world with your dancing feet
And your sparkling glove
Now that you are gone
You light up our hearts with your un-dying love
Conveyed to us in your inspirational songs
Embraced by your music
We are Not Alone

It matters not if we are
Black or White
Our dreams can forever take flight
Soaring in inspiration
We can Heal the World
Spurred along by your inspiring words

When we look at the Man in the Mirror
We can believe that if we Keep the Faith
Our mission will be clearer
So let us join together and sing
One Earth Song
To help Heal this World
Before we are gone.
Thank-you Michael Jackson
For being our inspirational song.

To All Michael Jackson Fans: Never ever stop dreaming and to paraphrase Michael Jackson, "Live your life Dancing the Dream." "Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation." (Inspiring Message from Dream, Michael Jackson poster).


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My Best Inspirational Songs By Michael Jackson:
Heal the world
Man in the mirror
Black or White
You Are Not Alone
Earth Song
Keep the Faith

Environment Poem: Now the Taps Are Dry

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Now The Taps Are Dry
(An Environment Poem by Maureen Injete Chesoni)

She told us to plant trees,
and we paid her no heed
And now the taps are dry.
They released
a water rationing schedule today
A water conservation measure
they say,
Because the taps are dry.

We should have rationed our greed
And paid her heed
When she told us not to cut down forest trees
But we did not see the wisdom of her pleas
And now the taps are dry.

We thought that the price of food was high,
Until we had to choose what to buy,
Food or the liquid of life?
Yesterday I had to explain to my daughter,
that the choice was between food and water,
Now that our taps are dry.

Who would have thought
That the day would come,
When we would stand under God’s glorious sun
And buy water by the gallon.
We cannot say that we did not see it coming,
Because she gave us ample warning
That soon the day would be dawning,
When we would wake up one morning
And find that our taps were dry.

So now we are taking conservation measures,
A little too late
We are reclaiming our treasures,
That were squandered and plundered
To suit the whims of a few.
We lacked forethought,
And we should have fought,
Just as she taught,
To protect the liquid of life.
We should have been as far-sighted as she,
Who told us not to cut down trees,
Then perhaps today we would not be crying
Over the fact that our taps are drying.

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The Inspiration For This Poem
This poem was inspired by the current water shortage crisis been experienced in Kenya. There is nothing like personal experience to drive a point home. My taps have literally been running dry for the past two weeks. The "She" alluded to in this poem is the 2004, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai who is a native of Kenya. She dedicated her life to educating Kenyans on the importance of planting trees and was often persecuted for her efforts to save forests. (Wangari Maathai passed away on September 25th, 2011 from ovarian cancer).

Remembering My Father's Favorite Inspirational Poems

I was writing a blog post on grieving and in the course of my writing I remembered my late father. He loved books, poetry and quotes and I remembered two of his favorite inspirational poems, If by Rudyard Kipling and Don't Quit (Keep Going) by Edgar A. Guest. They are both wise and inspiring poems so I would like to share them in this blog post.

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IF (Inspirational Poem by Rudyard Kipling)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

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DON'T QUIT (Inspirational Poem)

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than,
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.
- Edgar A. Guest -

Death Is An Exit

Death has been all over the news lately. A number of famous people have died recently including Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett. One news story in particular caught my eye. A retired, married football player was found shot to death beside his girlfriend. Whenever, someone dies I think of those that they left behind. There is a famous saying that death is only sad for those left behind. When I read the story about the slain football player my heart went out to his wife. How does a wife simultaneously deal with the death of her husband and his infidelity? It is my hope that this particular woman will find a peaceful way to deal with the tragedy that has befallen her."When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter…………" - Death Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. All of the news stories about death inspired me to post a poem I wrote a few years ago titled, "Death Is An Exit". I wrote this poem soon after the death of my sister who died at the relatively young age of thirty-five so this is a sad death poem. With the passage of time I have found I am able to write more inspiring poems about death to uplift those who are grieving. You can read some inspirational death poems here and inspirational death quotes at this link. I also wrote a memorial poem for my father which you can read at the link.

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Death Is An Exit

(Grieving Death Poem by Injete Chesoni)

Death is an exit,
a departure from life.
A goodbye forever,
the dimming of a light.
To console ourselves we say,
that death is temporary
a fleeting state,
And that at some other time,
in some other place,
We WILL meet again.
However we know

that you will no longer 

pass through our door,

You have gone to a place 

where we can't see you anymore,

Until the day that we cross over

through death's door.