![]() ![]() Born in 1928, her life has spanned much of the African American struggle for racial equality. Maya Angelou is one of the most celebrated American Poets of our time. The more the storm, the more the strength. He wrote his first published poem when he was still a boy it was published in the Detroit News. Malloch lived in Michigan where he grew up amongst logging camps and lumber yards. It is only through struggles, like a tree fighting through forest growth to reach the sun, that we grow and discover our true potential. The message of this poem is that people, like trees, grow and reach their true potential by overcoming adversity. Rather, we serve the universe by making the most out of our lives.Īnd shout to the silver of the full moon,ĭouglas Malloch (1877-1938), known as the "Lumbermen's Poet," compares good men to good timber in this famous metaphorical poem. She reminds us that we do not serve the universe by being small. This poem offers an invitation to every single one of us to "show up" in the universe. Oriah is a spiritual counselor and story teller, among other things. Many years after the poem was written and had become famous, the author wrote a book based on the poem, The Invitation (1999), by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. The Invitation is a prose poem by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,Īnd - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, If all men count with you, but none too much: If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, To serve your turn long after they are gone,Īnd so hold on when there is nothing in youĮxcept the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew If you can make one heap of all your winningsĪnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,Īnd lose, and start again at your beginnings,Īnd never breathe a word about your loss: Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,Īnd stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterĪnd treat those two impostors just the same. If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim, If you can dream - and not make dreams your master Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,Īnd yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise ![]() If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,īut make allowance for their doubting too: If you can keep your head when all about you The poem's line, "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same," is written on the wall of the players' entrance at Wimbledon. For they existed.Rudyard Kipling was an English poet who lived from 1865-1936. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of dark, cold caves. Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. ![]() Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety.
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