Author Archives: Lovedeep kaur

Poetry: See it through

When you’re up against a trouble,

Meet it squarely face to face;

Lift your chin and set your shoulders,

Plant your feet and take a brace.

When it’s vain to try to dodge it,

Do the best that you can do;

You may fail, but you may conquer,

See it through!

Black may be the clouds about you

And your future may seem grim,

But don’t let your nerve desert you;

Keep yourself in fighting trim.

If the worst is bound to happen,

Spite of all that you can do,

Running from it will not save you,

See it through!

Even hope may seem but futile,

When with troubles you’re beset,

But remember you are facing

Just other men have met.

You may fail, but fall still fighting;

Don’t give up, whate’er you do;

Eyes front, head high to the finish.

See it through!

-Edgar Albert Guest

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Poetry: Will

You will be what you will to be;

Let failure find its false content

In that poor word “Environment,”

But spirit scorns it, and is free,

It masters time, it conquers space,

It cows that boastful trickster chance,

And bids the tyrant circumstance

Uncrown and fill a servant’s place.

The human will, that force unseen,

The offspring of deathless soul,

Can hew the way to any goal,

Though walls of granite intervene.

Be not impatient in delay,

But wait as one who understands;

The gods are ready to obey.

The river seeking for the sea

Confronts the dam and Precipice,

Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;

You will be what you will to be!

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Poetry: Equipment

Figure it out for yourself, my lad,

You have all that the greatest of men have had,

Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes,

And a brain to use if you would be wise.

With this equipment they all began,

So, start for the top and say “I can”.

Look them over, the wise and great,

They take their food from a common plate

And similar knives and forks they use,

With similar laces they tie their shoes,

The world considers them brave and smart.

But you’ve all they had when they made their start.

You can triumph and come to skill,

You can be great if only you will,

You’re well equipped for what you choose,

You have legs, arms and a brain to use,

And the man who has risen, great deeds to do

Began his life with no more than you.

You are the handicap you must face,

You are the one who must choose your place,

You must say where you want to go.

How much you will study the truth to know,

God has equipped you for life, But he

Lets you decide what you want to be.

Courage must come from the soul within,

The man must furnish the will to win,

So figure it out for yourself, my lad,

You were born with all the great have had,

With your equipment they all began.

Get hold of yourself, and say: “I CAN.”

-Edgar Albert Guest

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Poetry: God is my Shelter!

God is my shelter and my strength,

In him I find my peace and rest,

Without him I have no life,

He put me always on the right path!

When he forgives my sins I know,

I seek his joy and comfort though,

And the decisions that I make,

Are based on him and him alone!

God, how am I thirsty for your help,

You know me better than anyone else,

My heart has been revealed to you,

You are the only one and true!

-Irina Nichifor

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