To the women on my journey who showed me the ways to go and ways not to go, Whose strength and compassion held up a torch of light and beckoned me to follow, whose weakness and ignorance darkened the path and encouraged me to turn another way.
Poem by Chief Tecumseh in Act of Valor
I caught this poem at the end of the movie Act of Valor last night and it deeply moved me. I Googled for it the moment I got back home;…
Children Learn What They Live
Children Learn What They Live was a poem on child-rearing written by Dorothy Law Nolte for the weekly family column for the Torrance Herald in 1954. I think all of…
I’ve Learned by Omer B. Washington
I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them. I’ve learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back. And it’s not the end of the world. I’ve learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
This Too Shall Pass
I hope that this poem by Helen Steiner Rice will inspire you and I whom are all equaled in the Universe and whom are always loved. We will sometimes face…
The Man Who Thinks He Can
The Man Who Thinks He Can by Walter D. Wintle – Poems That Live Forever, comp. Hazel Felleman 1965 If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think…
When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking
Read this poem by Mary Rita Schilke Korzan this morning and thought that I would like to share this beautiful poem with you. From Barnes and Noble, it was mentioned…