every 90 minutes
 another virtue poem;
 i'm nothing but trustworthy,
 a type of jeroboam

 that holds a lot of nothing in
 the bottle that's this blog --
 where you can trust each poem won't
 be all that long

 a slog

 we tolerate most anyone
 who'll join in and discuss
 whatever might be on their mind --
 if that agrees with us.

 for with our type of "tolerance"
 there's no one quite a hero,
 since now, we rarely use the word
 unless it's led by "zero" --

 but maybe it's still possible
 to brook some disagreement:
 and let those others think their thoughts
 and just not be

 vehement

 being thoughtful isn't easy;
 people really can be bears,
 but, we have to keep our heads, and
 not be taken unawares.

 so remember, when it's sticky,
 honey's better than a knife:
 just be thoughtful when you're able,
 and you'll lead a better

 life

 according to this list
 of positive character traits
 i have been using,
 being "social" is one of them.

 i don't know;
 i guess i'll take 
 their word for it.

 the word has come to have
 odd connotations;
 as we are discouraged
 from being social in any
 of the traditional ways.
 
 the preferred method of
 being social today, is
 to be what was called 
 anti-social just last year.

 but anyway,
 being social is a virtue,
 because its on this list
 and i couldn't have found the list
 if someone hadn't been social enough
 to post it.

 so there.

 it is a joy to be genuine,
 to love and freely show it;
 the let the world see the inner you
 is a gift when you bestow it

 for some are genuine in remorse,
 and others in complaining,
 but the truly sincere show everything
 and manage without
 
 feigning

 it isn't thinking less of yourself
 it's forgetting to think
 about yourself at all

 it's simple, really. isn't it?
 we each know, in our head,
 it's good to say what you will do,
 then do the thing 

 you said

 what does it take to persevere?
 why can some do it, while others can't?
 is it genetic? or how we're raised?
 is the soil, or type of plant?

 might we consider: it's both, and neither;
 circumstance has a role, as well --
 what does it take to persevere?
 maybe somebody out there

 can tell

 patience is useful, all the time,
 but very hard to practice,
 because it takes both letting go,
 and keeping on, at once.

 this isn't a thing we do that well:
 we lean more towards complaining,
 not dealing with the minutes that
 can soon turn into months --

 but patience is something we like a lot
 when others have it for us:
 and so, by love's great symmetry,
 we should return, as well,

 the time and space it takes, some days,
 or years, for things to happen:
 to feel the magic, even, when
 we sit and wait

 a spell