You did a good job writing this Quinzaine, thanks for the explaination too.
I actually thought that your statement was quite thought-provoking, but the questions encouraged me to think about it even more. It's yet for me to figure what my opinion is, but that'd take a while. I could have imagined that the question might have put some doubt in the statement, while your first questions already sets it as fact. However, I thought it was an enjoyable read.

Nice to see you work on a format, TJ:)

About the statement: in life we get an endless amount of chances to learn both from the good and the bad. I don't believe in labels, we are all children of the same God..and I think deep inside our heart we know what is the right thing to do in each situation, all of us. We live and we learn, hun..free will is meant to enable us to do both good and bad and recieve our lessons from it. There is no such thing as a bad person, just people being unwise and/ or acting against their better judgement.

5/5 Ingrid

I don't particularly like this format, though challenging also on the boring side. But your choice of wording and subject matter was excellent.

Connie

Looks like you met the challenge and won. Good job with the form. It is extremely difficult to work with so few lines and syllables and have it make any sense at all but you made that happen. The statement morality is in decay then to question when it started and is that decay the dawn of man. Well done.

Wow everyone had so much to say I'm afraid I don't have much but loved the wording and yes a delightful read,,I guess it kinda of makes u question and question, not sure but great job and my fab part is--

"Morality in Decay"

Loved it 5/5

This was very thought provoking and a great way to fit this type of poetry form... Definitely liked the thought put into this poem.

5/5

You posted the poetry before I could give you a response, no problem. I'll write it here.

Morality in Decay.
When was it started ?
Dawn of man?

^ Lets start with Morality. Now, what is morality?.

Morality is - Normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons. What "morality" is taken to refer to plays a crucial, although often unacknowledged, role in formulating ethical theories. To take "morality" to refer to an actually existing code of conduct put forward by a society results in a denial that there is a universal morality, one that applies to all human beings. This descriptive use of "morality"is the one used by anthropologists when they report on the morality of the societies that they study. Recently, some comparative and evolutionary psychologists have taken morality, or a close anticipation of it, to be present among groups of non-human animals, primarily other primates but not limited to them. "Morality" has also been taken to refer to any code of conduct that a person or group takes as most important.

Among those who use "morality" normatively, all hold that "morality" refers to a code of conduct that applies to all who can understand it and can govern their behavior by it. In the normative sense, morality should never be overridden, that is, no one should ever violate a moral prohibition or requirement for non-moral considerations. All of those who use "morality" normatively also hold that, under plausible specified conditions, all rational persons would endorse that code. Moral theories differ in their accounts of the essential characteristics of rational persons and in their specifications of the conditions under which all rational persons would endorse a code of conduct as a moral code. These differences result in different kinds of moral theories. Related to these differences, moral theories differ with regard to those to whom morality applies, that is, those whose behavior is subject to moral judgment. Some hold that morality applies only to those rational beings that have those features of human beings that make it rational for all of them to endorse morality, viz., fallibility and vulnerability. Other moral theories claim to put forward an account of morality that provides a guide to all rational beings, even if these beings do not have these human characteristics, e.g., God.

Decay - In general terms decay means - To decline from a state of normality, excellence, or prosperity; deteriorate.

Morality in Decay.

^ The author here, is stating the fact that morality is decaying, or the process has already begun. While referring to what morality means, it can differ in many ways. But the theme revolves around morality depleting in general, i.e the ability or the moral conscience possessed by a human to distinguish between good and bad, right and wrong. While one individual may look at an act being bad, an another individual may not relate in the same manner.

A simple example, although not the most appropriate one. A murderer killing a victim, is a bad act. But assigning a death sentence to the murderer is still killing. The murderer will be terminated. The society might defend, or justify itself by claiming that the murderer is threat to the society, but killing is still killing, under any and all circumstances. Thus morality revolves around a blur definition, but it cannot maintain a precise method to convey good or bad.

Now the author here meant that, humans/society in general is deteriorating in morality. Man has no fixed boundary for right and wrong, for he has become self centered and will do anything within his power to amend for his loss and pave through others to gain/profit. But when all of mankind does the same, it becomes a fashion, and it is verified to be appropriate, thrown is the idea of morality out the window, thus the decline of morality.

When was it started ?

^ Bro, I can write pages on this line, but let not, this poetry dwell completely upon my perspective.

In general it started when the society brought an act into fashion. Multiple situations are brought into a fashion, which cannot be discussed here as it could be offensive to other readers. The massive thrust of television and theaters has taught the people that sex, and alternative lifestyles, marital infidelity, and divorce are all to be accepted as normal. There are movements for women empowerment, the simple thought is that there are just two active genders in the society, while the third one being an outcast, which is not fair. But the two active genders in this developed culture are yet, unable to treat each other on an equal basis. What more is there to say?. .This is just as example. I wont elaborate further.

Dawn of man?

Dawn - In pure technical terms - Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of the twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the presence of weak sunlight, while the sun itself is still below the horizon. The duration of the twilight period between dawn and sunrise varies greatly depending on the observer's latitude, from a few minutes in equatorial regions to many hours in polar regions. Dawn may easily be determined by observing a thread. When the color of a thread can be determined, changing from black to the thread's distinctive color, the 'crack of dawn' has occurred. This same measure of ambient light can be used to determine, conversely, the instant of dusk.

But the author here, is trying to figure out or question, whether did the decline in morality begin with the first step. .or was it the transaction or the journey through these centuries that led to man depriving himself of the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, good or bad. I will say it is a cumulative affect of mans thought patterns through out the ages.

You pulled it off very well bro. Constructing a meaningful poetry of 3 lines, yet rattling the cages of morality and harassing the base pillars of mankind's moral establishments.

Excellent attempt TJ. Hmmm. . I wonder if I should post the Tanka you gave me as the challenge.

Edit - I seem to have gone overboard with the comment. Giving a challenge is easy, but it is important for the challenger to be worthy of giving a challenge. So, a long in depth review. Sorry bro :P

That was great. I like the shades of colors I can see. Excellent

I've never heard of a Quinzaine style before.

It's great that you went for the challenge!

Yes this poem does make you think about life and our own values!

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Wow that was real nice
saying so much in so little
i always really like when ppl can do that
:) nice word choice.

Interesting new form and you have written it very well. though provoking write :)

This piece is cool. It seems like it'd be a simple, easy write, but now that I think about it, it couldnt have been too easy. Anyway nice job. I like this piece a lot.

This is brilliant! I love the subject that you addressed. It's a matter that we continue to question, even though the answer(s) are all around us. I've never heard of this style before, but I'll definitely be using it in the future.