poems

I am

I am a human being

With hopes and fears and feelings and

I am a student

Using my mind to learn and grow.

I am a writer

With compassion for all living beings and

I am a musician

Loving life and everything about it.

I am a woman

With my life stretching long and promising ahead of me.

Author Unknown

Risking

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out for another is to risk involvement.

To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.

To place your ideas, your dream before the crowd is to

risk their loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To hope is to risk despair.

To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing and is nothing.

She may avoid suffering and sorrow,

but she simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, and live.

Chained by her own fears, she is slave; she has forfeited freedom.

Only person who risks is free!

Wendy Rayner

Anyway

People are illogical and self-centered.

Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.

Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.

Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.

Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.

Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you help them.

Help them anyway.

Give the world the best you’ve got and you’ll get

kicked in the teeth.

Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

Open up your heart and show your love, you may be rejected.

Open up your heart and show your love anyway.

By Greg Cramer

After a while you learn

the subtle difference between

holding a hand and chaining soul.

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning,

and company doesn’t always mean security.

And you begin to learn

that kisses aren’t contracts

and presents aren’t promises.

And you begin to accept your defeats

with the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.

And you begin to build your roads on today

because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans,

and futures have way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn that even sunshine burns

if you ask too much.

So you plant your own garden,

and you decorate your own soul,

rather than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn that you really can endure.

That you really are strong,

and that you really do have worth

And you learn,

and you learn,

with every goodbye you learn.

After a while.

Veronica A. Shoffstall

Why Not TODAY

Mend a quarrel

Seek out forgotten friend

Write a love letter

Share some treasure

Give a soft answer

Encourage Youth

Keep a promise

Find the time

Forgive an enemy

Listen

Apologize if you were wrong

Think first of someone else

Be kind and gentle

Laugh a little

Laugh a little more

Express your gratitude

Gladden the hear of a child

Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth

Speak of love

Speak it again

Speak it still once again

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