Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me. ~ Alexander Pushkin
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Today’s Poem: Music in My Soul by Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Music in My Soul
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
There’s music in my soul today,
A joy of heart not there before:
This state of conscience I relay
To rich and proud and meek and poor.
There’s music in my happy Soul:
From Heaven’s realm doth truly flow
This music in my happy Soul,
My conscience tells me riglitly so.
My song of joy I sing to you:
Let peace and love forever be
Among ye men of every hue,
Of every land and charted sea.
I crave no other fortune great,
But joy to live in peace with God;
My hopes are fixed on His Estate,
In faith so true as prophets had.
This music in my soul today
I spread in truth with love unfurled;
On waves of cheer it goes, I pray,
To reach around the belted world.
Today’s Poem: Life Doesn’t Fighten Me by Maya Angelou
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
Maya Angelou
Shadows on the wall
Noises down the hall
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Bad dogs barking loud
Big ghosts in a cloud
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Mean old Mother Goose
Lions on the loose
They don’t frighten me at all
Dragons breathing flame
On my counterpane
That doesn’t frighten me at all.
I go boo
Make them shoo
I make fun
Way they run
I won’t cry
So they fly
I just smile
They go wild
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
Tough guys fight
All alone at night
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
Panthers in the park
Strangers in the dark
No, they don’t frighten me at all.
That new classroom where
Boys all pull my hair
(Kissy little girls
With their hair in curls)
They don’t frighten me at all.
Don’t show me frogs and snakes
And listen for my scream,
If I’m afraid at all
It’s only in my dreams.
I’ve got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Not at all
Not at all.
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
Inspiring Quote: Embrace Life’s Rainbows and Raindrops
Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain. ~ Zion Lee
Today’s Poem: Meeting at Night by Robert Browning
Meeting at Night
Robert Browning
I.
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed in the slushy sand.
II.
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro’ its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
Happy Mother’s Day
May Our Lord’s Blessings Abundantly Flow to Mother’s Everywhere
Today’s Inspiring Quote: Always Love
The measure of love is love without measure. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Today’s Poem: Look at Me by Theodor Seuss Giesel
Look at me
Theodor Seuss Giesel
Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have
to know how.
Today’s Inspiring Quote: Enjoy a Good Laugh
“Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness – the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.” ― Sean O’Casey
Today’s Inspiring Quote: Be a Joy Spreader
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~ James M. Barrie
