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- livelypen
- I'll admit it. I have stayed up until 2 a.m. watching LOST, season 3--taking a break to snarf some Goo-goo Cluster ice cream. I've also run a relay marathon with my four sisters. Through it all, I have a few priority verbs: wife, mom, writer. Not verbs? They sure feel like it.
I'm first because this is one I'd already been working on (memorization still in progress). Forgive the long comment, but I'm going to share the whole thing. I love it so.
ReplyDeleteHold Fast Your Dreams
Louise Driscoll
Hold fast your dreams!
Within your heart
Keep one, still secret spot
Where dreams may go,
And sheltered so,
May thrive and grow --
Where doubt and fear are not.
O, keep a place apart,
Within your heart
For little dreams to go!
Think still of lovely things that are not true.
Let wish and magic work at will in you.
Be sometimes blind to sorrow. Make believe!
Forget the calm that lies
In disillusioned eyes.
Though we all know that we must die,
Yet you and I
May walk like gods and be
Even now at home in immortality!
We see so many ugly things--
Deceits and wrongs and quarrelings;
We know, alas! we know
How quickly fade
The color in the west,
The bloom upon the flower,
The bloom upon the breast
And youth's blind hour.
Yet, keep within your heart
A place apart
Where little dreams may go,
May thrive and grow.
Hold fast -- hold fast your dreams!
Nice poem, Lael. I especially like the line: "And youth's blind hour." I actually changed my selection mid-week when I happened on a quote that I needed more. The other day I did one of those stupid, too-emotionally-entangled reactions and was immediately embarrassed. I was determined to feel cruddy the rest of the day--a honed skill, I might add--I still ruminate over mistakes and faux pas I made a decade ago. Anyway, I decided I needed this quote more, from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Goodbye old nonsense, hello new!
ReplyDeleteOne that stuck with me since junior high...and always made me laugh...
ReplyDeleteWhen picking up a man...bend your knees and use your legs, not your back.
-unknown.