tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698721485382133195.post9097234471158378679..comments2023-10-31T13:37:30.548-04:00Comments on APOGEE Poet: Pen In HandRose Marie Raccioppihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12327247225256540829noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698721485382133195.post-65933463974627486252011-02-17T01:22:25.218-05:002011-02-17T01:22:25.218-05:00Dear Theanne, As a grandmother of a granddaughter ...Dear Theanne, As a grandmother of a granddaughter and a grandson I sooooooooo appreciate your shared J♡Y... pleased I am for your 'find."Rose Marie Raccioppihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12327247225256540829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698721485382133195.post-50723263770148342452011-02-16T21:29:59.738-05:002011-02-16T21:29:59.738-05:00I'm back again Rose Marie...I checked the inte...I'm back again Rose Marie...I checked the internet again for "IF for Girls"...and found it! I'm going to print and frame it for my g'daughter and "IF" for my g'son. I'm so appreciative that you used this particular poem as inspiration...I've been looking for the "girl" version for a long time! http://www.robinsweb.com/inspiration/if_girls.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698721485382133195.post-17132069037104563392011-02-16T20:33:05.959-05:002011-02-16T20:33:05.959-05:00I have loved this poem by Kipling for many, many y...I have loved this poem by Kipling for many, many years! When I was a child there was a poem, by a poet I no longer remember the name of, hanging on my bedroom wall. It was called "IF for Girls" and was based on this poem by Kipling. I've looked for it on the internet but as of yet have not found it...I wondered if you had ever heard of it. It's such a blessing that you do take "pen in hand."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698721485382133195.post-3142985541457583082011-02-16T16:14:30.770-05:002011-02-16T16:14:30.770-05:00and so it is...
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If you can keep your head whe...and so it is...<br /><br />If<br /><br />If you can keep your head when all about you <br />Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; <br />If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, <br />But make allowance for their doubting too; <br />If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, <br />Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, <br />Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, <br />And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;<br /><br />If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; <br />If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; <br />If you can meet with triumph and disaster <br />And treat those two imposters just the same; <br />If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken <br />Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, <br />Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, <br />And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;<br /><br />If you can make one heap of all your winnings <br />And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, <br />And lose, and start again at your beginnings <br />And never breath a word about your loss; <br />If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew <br />To serve your turn long after they are gone, <br />And so hold on when there is nothing in you <br />Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";<br /><br />If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, <br />Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; <br />If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; <br />If all men count with you, but none too much; <br />If you can fill the unforgiving minute <br />With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - <br />Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, <br />And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! <br /><br />Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936.Rose Marie Raccioppihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12327247225256540829noreply@blogger.com