Seasons and Impressions

By: Cynthia Ann Katon-Alfonso

May 16 2012

Tags: Bill Gates-Warren Buffett-King Solomon, Domino Game, Grain of Wheat, Lessons in Life, Losing to win, poems, poetry, Riches, Scripture Verses, Toys for the Big Boys, Wealth

Category: Poetry, Wit Humor Satire

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Has anybody played Dominoes?

To win you must lose everything!

The player who first gets rid of all

His Domino blocks win!

You give to get,  you lose to gain

And be reduced to nothing!

Very interesting!

The insight here is so unlike

The “Get all you can,  mine-ing principle”

Of the Man of the World– the Big Boss

Who gets the most toys for the Big Boys!

The one with the fattest bank account or

The most number of banks, the one who

Outscores everyone,  with the most home runs,

With the highest innings,  who downs all

Opponents from Day 1,  the Undisputed Champion,

The American Idol,  the Consummate Winner!

And the number 1 in Forbes’ List of Wealthiest!

The Richest Man who ever lived  (it’s not Bill Gates

Nor Warren Buffett) to date,  who excelled more

Than all who were before him,  nor anyone who

(I believe)  would come after him in gold,  silver

And in grand palaces, or in the number of wives

And concubines  (yes, it’s King Solomon) made his

Declaration in the book of the Preacher in Ecclesiastes 2: 10-11

“Whatever my heart desired I did not keep from them.

…I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure…

Then I looked on all the works that my hand had done,

And on the labor in which I had toiled… All was vanity

And grasping for the wind!  There was no profit under the sun!”

Conclusion?  With all that tremendous wealth,  Nothing

Satisfied the hunger and craving in his soul!

His Prescription?  ”Remember now your Creator in the days

Of your youth (Ecclesiates 12:1)… Fear God and keep His

Commandments for this is man’s all” (Ecclesistes 12:13).

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Has anybody played Dominoes?

It is an unusual game!

Jesus declared in His teachings  ”Unless a grain of wheat falls

Into the ground and dies,  it remains alone!” (John 12:24)–

Meaning:  kept in the sack or bin,  this grain will just mold

And rot away,  but thrown into the ground or planted in the

Soil,  it will bear fruits a hundredfold!

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Has anybody played Dominoes?

You give to get,  you lose to gain,

To win you must lose everything!

What an unusual game!