Start where you stand and never mind the past
The past won't help you in beginning new,
If you have left it all behind at last,
Why that's enough, you're done with it, you're through.
This is another chapter in the book,
This is another race that you have planned.
Don't give the vanished days a backwards look,
Start where you stand.
The world won't care about your old defeats
If you can start anew and win success;
The future is your time, and time is fleet,
And there is much of work and strain and stress.
Forget the buried woes and dead despairs,
Here is a brand new trial right at hand.
The future is for him who does and dares -
Start where you stand.
Old failures will not hold, old triumphs aid,
Today's the thing, tomorrow will soon be.
Get in the fight, and face it unafraid,
And leave the past to ancient history.
What has been has been; yesterday is dead;
And by it, you are neither blessed or banned.
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead -
Start where you stand.
It Couldn't Be Done - Edgar Guest - Positive Poems
Try as you might to surround yourself with positive people, there are still many naysayers in the world. This is what Edgar Guest says to do when you encounter them, and I agree.
Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But, he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he had tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
At least no one has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle it in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That "couldn't be done" and you'll do it.
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What You Hold May You Always Hold - Clare Of Assisi
This is more of a spiritual poem or blessing, but it has all the beauty and inspiration of poetry that lasts through the ages.
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