This week‘s poem is: ‘The Will To Win’ by Berton Braley.

Berton Braley was an American poet born in Madison, Wisconsin. His poem the Will to Win is about having the will to achieve something, and to stay strong and be persistent. This is the ‘Will To Win’

Composer: Whitesand (Martynas Lau) Year: 2020 Title - Thunder Breathing 

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The Will To Win

If you want a thing bad enough

If only desire of it

If life seems all empty and useless without it

If gladly you’ll sweat for it,

If you’ll simply go after that thing that you want.

If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,

If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,

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This week‘s poem is: ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost.

Robert Frost is commonly regarded as America's greatest poet.

His poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ is about the choices we make in life. This is ‘The Road Not Taken’

The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

 And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, 

long I stood And looked down one as far as I could 

To where it bent in the undergrowth;  

Then took the other, as just as fair,

 And having perhaps the better claim,

 Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 

Though as for that the passing there 

Had worn them really about the same,  

And both that morning equally lay 

In leaves no step had trodden black. 

Oh, I kept the first for another day! 

Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 

I doubted if I should ever come back.  

I shall be telling this with a sigh 

Somewhere ages and ages hence: 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

 I took the one less traveled by, 

And that has made all the difference.

Music: Composer: Whitesand (Martynas Lau) Year: 2017 Title: Eternity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5c83Uixoj8

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Today's poem is 'How did you die?' By Edmund Vance Cooke.

Edmund Vance Cooke is a Canadian poet, popularly known as "the poet laureate of childhood. ‘How did you die’ is his best-known poem. A poem which is perhaps more about living than dying.

Did you tackle that trouble that came your way

 With a resolute heart and cheerful?

 Or hide your face from the light of day 

With a craven soul and fearful?

Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, 

Or a trouble is what you make it, 

And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,

 But only how did you take it?

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that! 

Come up with a smiling face. 

It's nothing against you to fall down flat,  

But to lie there-that's disgrace.

The harder you're thrown, why the higher you bounce

 Be proud of your blackened eye! 

It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts; 

It's how did you fight-and why?

And though you be done to the death, what then?

 If you battled the best you could, 

If you played your part in the world of men, 

Why, the Critic will call it good.

Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,

 And whether he's slow or spry, 

It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts, 

But only how did you die?

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Today's poem is 'And God Said' a funeral poem by Richard John Scarr, a poet from Brighton, East Sussex, England. 

And God Said  by Richard John Scarr  

Be not afraid, my precious ones, 

when your time on earth is through. 

Death- is but a change of life. 

No harm will come to you.

No need to fret or worry, 

when transition time is nigh. 

Would I create my children, 

just to let them die?

For as your children are to you. 

That's how you are to me! 

And the tender love you feel for them,

I feel for you, my family.  

You are all my sons and daughters. 

Every color, culture, creed.

And I placed you on the earth plain, 

to love, and help each other's needs.  

Though at times you may feel lonely. 

We walk together, you and I. 

I would never let you walk alone. 

I am always at your side.  

I share in all your pleasures. 

Your heart aches, and your pain. 

As you learn the things that must be learned, 

whilst there upon the earthly plain.  

No good deed goes unnoticed. 

No kind gesture made in vain. 

ou will each receive your just rewards, 

when I bring you safely home again.

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This week‘s poem is: ‘Invictus’ by William Ernest Henley.

William Ernest Henley was an important British poet, best known for his poem “Invictus” meaning in Latin ‘unconquerable’, Henley wrote this poem about stoicism because he needed courage when he contracted tuberculosis of the bone. 

INVICTUS - Inspirational poem 

 BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY  

Out of the night that covers me,      

 Black as the pit from pole to pole, 

I thank whatever gods may be       

For my unconquerable soul.  

In the fell clutch of circumstance       

I have not winced nor cried aloud. 

Under the bludgeonings of chance       

My head is bloody, but unbowed.  

Beyond this place of wrath and tears       

Looms but the Horror of the shade, 

And yet the menace of the years       

Finds and shall find me unafraid.  

It matters not how strait the gate,       

How charged with punishments the scroll, 

I am the master of my fate,       

I am the captain of my soul.  

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This week‘s poem is: ‘If by Rudyard Kipling’.

Rudyard Kipling is one of the best known British poets. His poem ‘IF’ tells us how to deal with all kinds of situations in life. 

This poem has been voted one of the UK’s favourite poems.

IF BY RUDYARD KIPLING  

If you can keep your head when all about you        

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

 If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,    

But make allowance for their doubting too;    

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,     

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

 Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,     

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;        

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

 If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster     

And treat those two impostors just the same;    

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken    

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, 

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,    

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings    

 And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, 

And lose, and start again at your beginnings     

And never breathe a word about your loss; 

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew     

To serve your turn long after they are gone,    

And so hold on when there is nothing in you    

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,        

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, 

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,     

If all men count with you, but none too much; 

If you can fill the unforgiving minute     

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,    

ours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

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This week‘s poem is: ‘Light of my life’ by Ellen Bailey.

Ellen Bailey was born in Puritan Mines, 

West Virginia, a small, close-knit community of hard-working coal miners. 

Most of her writings are religious and inspirational in nature.

Light of My Life

by Ellen Bailey

Jesus is the light of my life

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Music: "Peace" by deep instrumental 

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Recited by: Naomie Daslin  

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This week‘s poem is: ‘Circle of life” by Carly Nasch.

Carly is a student who dedicates her life to poetry. In her poem ‘Circle of life, she compares life as a carousel, because we cannot go to the past, we can only move forward and look to the future. This beautiful poem brings us a lot of inspiration in life. This is ‘circle of life’.

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Circle Of Life 

by Carly Nasch 

 Life is a carousel, always going forward, 

never going back. 

Existence is a hard thing to keep when you stop trying.

To live a life, you must want to live. 

To want to live you must find a way. 

When all hope is lost, you must stand tall. 

When all others retreat, you must prevail. 

You are the conscience inside your head. 

You create your own destiny. 

Life is a very hard thing to keep 

When your life does not always go the way you plan. 

Fight for your life and the right to keep dreaming. 

If you feel you were gifted, share your gift. 

If you feel you were cursed, fix it. 

As you get older, your life becomes a challenge. 

Who are you? What do you want in life? 

What will you be? What is your purpose in life?

If you worry, these things will turn into burdens. 

But if you hold on to them in the back of your mind, 

All of the answers will come in time. 

Life is a carousel, always going forward, 

never going back. 

Look to the future, not to the past.  

Carly Nasch. "Circle Of Life." Family Friend Poems, Mar 2009.

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This week’s poem is: “What life should be” by Pat Fleming.

Pat Fleming is an American poet. She started writing poetry from an early age. But it wasn't until after her retirement that she started to spend more time in writing poems. This is her wonderful poem "what life should be"

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Composer: Nights Amore and Arn Andersson  

Title: Farewell Life 

Year: 2015

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This week‘s poem is: ‘Solitude’ by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Ella started writing poems at an early age. She studied at the University of Wisconsin but left after a year to focus on her writing. She became well known as a poet in her own state by the time she had graduated from high school. She was a popular poetess compared to her counterparts; in her poems, she expresses feelings of joyfulness and optimism.

Solitude By Ella Wheeler Wilcox  

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; 

Weep, and you weep alone; 

For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, 

But has trouble enough of its own. 

Sing, and the hills will answer; 

Sigh, it is lost on the air; 

The echoes bound to a joyful sound,

 But shrink from voicing care. 

 Rejoice, and men will seek you; 

Grieve, and they turn and go; 

They want full measure of all your pleasure, 

But they do not need your woe. 

Be glad, and your friends are many; 

Be sad, and you lose them all, 

There is none to decline your nectared wine, 

But alone you must drink life's gall.  

Feast, and your halls are crowded; 

Fast, and the world goes by. 

Succeed and give, and it helps you live, 

But no man can help you die. 

There is room in the halls of pleasure 

For a large and lordly train, 

But one by one we must all file on 

Through the narrow aisles of pain.  

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