Poem: It Couldn’t Be Done

By Edgar A. Guest

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’d 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 ever 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 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 “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.

Poem: I will not cry by Arun Pandit

I WILL NOT CRY !

EVENTHOUGH I HAVE GOT TEARS IN MY EYES!

I WILL NOT CRY !
EVENTHOUGH THE WORLD SEEMS TO ME LIKE AN HOPELESS SKY!
I WILL NOT CRY !
EVENTHOUGH PEOPLE DOUBT ABOUT HOW MUCH I TRIED!
I WILL NOT CRY !
EVENTHOUGH I QUESTION MYSELF THAT CAN “I”!
I WILL NOT CRY !
EVENTHOUGH FOR MANY OF US IT IS A TIME TO SIGH!
I WILL NOT CRY !
EVENTHOUGH ITS TIME TO SAY GOOD BYE!
I WILL NOT DIE !
BEFORE I GIVE IN ALL MY TRIES!
BECAUSE HOPES ARE STILL ALIVE!
BECAUSE HOPES ARE STILL ALIVE!
BY: ARUN PANDIT

 THIS POEM WAS WRITTEN BY ME AT A TIME WHEN I WAS DOWN AND DISHARTENED AND NOTHING SEEM TO GO THE RIGHT WAY!
BUT I TOOK CONTROL AND WITH A BELEIF IN MYSELF DID WHAT I WANTED TO DO TO -PROVE MY WORTH!

Poem: Get Up Now!! By Arun Pandit

GET UP NOW!

LIFE IS TOUGH

CALL IT ROUGH

BUT IF U GIVE UP

THE GAME IS UP

STRAIGHTEN UP LITTLE SOLDIER

WHATS THE USE OF CRYING?

WHATS THE USE OF SIGHING

AND THIS UNREALISTIC DENYING

THE BATTLE HAS BEEN LOST

SO WHAT

THE WAR IS STILL TO BE  FAUGHT

IF NOW YOU CRUMBLE AND CRY

THE YOU HAVE TO SIGH

FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

SO GET UP NOW

GIVE IT A SHOT

WITH ALL THAT YOU HAVE GOT

WITH YOUR STRONG WILL AND THOUGHTS

EVEN DESTINY WILL HAV TO CONFESS….

“I LOST !”

THE SUN WILL SHINE AGAIN

ALL EFFORTS OF EVIL WILL GO IN VAIN

YOUR EFFORTS WILL COME UPRIGHT

YOUR PAIN AND TEARS WILL BE RIGHTLY PRICED!

ALL OF THIS CAN ONLY BECOME POSSIBLE
IF YOU BELIEVE THAT

“NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE”

JUST DON’T THINK “HOW?”

THE BOTTOM LINE IS….

“GET UP NOW”

© ÁЯUN PANDIT

Poem:Promise Yourself

The Optimist Creed

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel like there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living person you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, and too strong for fear, and to happy to permit the presence of trouble.

Poems: Climb ‘Til Your Dream Comes True

By: Helen Steiner Rice

Often your tasks will be many,
And more than you think you can do.
Often the road will be rugged
And the hills insurmountable, too.
But always remember,
The hills ahead
Are never as steep as they seem,
And with Faith in your heart
Start upward
And climb ’til you reach your dream.
For nothing in life that is worthy
Is ever too hard to achieve
If you have the courage to try it,
And you have the faith to believe.
For faith is a force that is greater
Than knowledge or power or skill,
And many defeats turn to triumph
If you trust in God’s wisdom and will.
For faith is a mover of mountains,
There’s nothing that God cannot do,
So, start out today with faith in your heart,
And climb ’til your dream comes true!

Poem: The darker side of the truth ….

The darker side of the truth ….

“What if you fail??? … Failure … failure…”

“You are a disgrace …. Disgrace… disgrace…”

“It’s a hopeless situation… Hopeless. Hopeless ….”

“You will lose…. Loser …”

Have you ever heard these words… or thought about it….

How many of you have been surrounded by such despondency…

Has anything like this ever haunted you in your nightmares …?

I am sure the answer would be yes….

Now the question that arises is…

How can we be positive when we don’t see things positive …?

How can we say that we are brave and fearless when we are feeling afraid … deep down inside …?

How can we say that we “don’t give up!” when we are actually on the verge of accepting defeat…

If theses are the questions that revolve around your mind…then this article is for you…

Its not evangelism or bookish philosophy…

This one is for the dreamers, who have lost the faith inside…

And have become used to the vouchsafe of the so called elite ones….

This cringe of loosing has annihilated the dreams of countless…

Here I would like to begin by quoting that being brave and courageous does not mean the absence of fear but the will and determination to overcome the fears we have inside…

No body is fearless…

No one can always remain positive…

Everyone gets disheartened…

Defeat is hard to swig…

A common wont…

And then we play the blame game…we ring out a hoarse tirade through a large pulpit….against our problems….

We behave so vulpine…

And instead of being a fecund….we are controlled by a chimera of fear febrile…

Call it juvenile…

Call it pallid….

And after all the excuses and faux pass…

We snivel…

As if asking for mercy for delinquency…

As time passes by we superannuate everything and go on a promenade or a junket…

Someone has rightly said “time is the biggest healer!”

And then we say that we are humans and we are bound to behave like this…..

Aren’t we trying to fool ourselves in the process of fooling others …

Aren’t we becoming a part of the crowd …

Sometimes we work hard….we give in our best…yet we fail…

Sometimes when we feel that the worse is over …

And the problems are about to tarry…

And everything is getting better again…

Suddenly to our stupor..

We are hit again…

By the problems and failures

They were in waylay… waiting for the right moment to strike…

We begin to squirm…

We become so testy..

We feel that it is the end of the world…

We loose hope….

We think that earlier we use to give up!

But with determination and a sedulous pursuit we tried to think positive and developed the don’t give up attitude…

Fail! Fall! Cry!

But don’t give up!

But still we are not succeeding…

Why???

Do you know why???

Let me give an example…

The mountains…

Come what may…rain…Thunder storm…They don’t collapse…

They don’t give up!

But what is the end result…

They are still standing at the same place where they were yesterday…

And if you are at the same place where you were yesterday …you are behind time ..

You don’t give up! That’s good… Sounds nice but for what….

We have to strike back with double the intensity…

We have to channelize our energy and focus.

We have to overcome our moments of despair…our failures…like a beam of laser….tearing apart anything that comes in its way…

The difference between ordinary and extra ordinary is that little “extra” ….

Remember friends the greatest people that we have heard about…

Abraham Lincoln, Lance Armstrong, Helen Keller, Thomas Alva Edison etc have gone thru heart breaking failures in there life….

Enough to sunder any common man….

There life was so vituperative at times …

But they didn’t give up….

They refused to accept defeat…

They overcame series of failures….

They overcame critics ….

They overcame against all odds…

Because they believed that life is not about winning all the battles but the war…

Thomas Alva Edison failed to make the bulb about 10,000 times …

And said that… I have learned 10,000 ways not to make a bulb…

And in the end he made the bulb…

He achieved greatness and immortality…..

They were ordinary people with extraordinary will…

The pushed the limits…

They raised the touchstones…

They were not blue blooded…

They didn’t have Aladdin’s lamp….

But they had a greater power … faith…

They were not stronger and better equipped than others….

But they knew only one thing in mind that they have to do it….

They knew that god has not made a single person ordinary…

They were prelector to the philosophy that

“ what the mind can conceive …it can achieve… “

Now most of us think that some person Mr A is too good at one thing and we can not compete with him… we don’t have a chance…

Here I would like to say friends…

Mr. A may take x time to do something…

You think you are weaker than him… that’s the weakness…

How much time would it take you to do the same thing…

Maybe 2 times … 3 times … 5 times … 10 times …. 100 times…

I don’t know if you will win or not … even after trying…

But one thing I know…

If you don’t try …your chances of success is 0 % for sure

And if you try… then maybe 50% or 10% or 1%…or even less… probability…

But you will have some probability…

If you have the will power and determination to do it than nobody can stop you… you may have to work hard … work endlessly…

But your will and determination will be the fuel to keep you burning till you achieve your goal…

Success is not just about winning … but it’s about your approach and your effort…

And even if you don’t succeed at times…people may think you have lost…

But you have won the battle inside … and you have emerged as the winner in real sense…

We may think that we deserve something… and still we are not getting it…

That’s not fair…

Yes life may not always be fair…

Sometimes we have to wrest what we deserve..

With focus and travail….

I call upon all of you to wake up from the hibernation …

I am not trying to wheedle you…

I just want to adumbrate that…

It doesn’t require you to be a prelapsarian or master rocket science to understand the fact that…

We are defeated only when we accept defeat….

The race is not over until we have won….

Challenge your fears….

Challenge yourself!

Push the limits…

Nothing is impossible…

Go get your dreams….

Are you with me???

—— ARUN PANDIT@DONTGIVEUP

poem: The World is Against Me

“The world is against me,” he said with a sigh.


“Somebody stops every scheme that I try.

The world has me down and it’s keeping me there;

I don’t get a chance. Oh, the world is unfair!

When a fellow is poor then he can’t get a show;

The world is determined to keep him down low.”



“What of Abe Lincoln?” I asked. “Would you say

That he was much richer than you are to-day?

He hadn’t your chance of making his mark,

And his outlook was often exceedingly dark;

Yet he clung to his purpose with courage most grim

And he got to the top. Was the world against him?



“What of Ben Franklin? I’ve oft heard it said

That many a time he went hungry to bed.

He started with nothing but courage to climb,

But patiently struggled and waited his time.

He dangled awhile from real poverty’s limb,

Yet he got to the top. Was the world against him?



“I could name you a dozen, yes, hundreds, I guess,

Of poor boys who’ve patiently climbed to success;

All boys who were down and who struggled alone,

Who’d have thought themselves rich if your fortune they’d known;

Yet they rose in the world you’re so quick to condemn,

And I’m asking you now, was the world against them?”



Edgar A. Guest

poem: Be the Best Whatever You Are

If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill


Be a scrub in the valley–but be

The best little scrub by the side of the rill;

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.



If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass,

And some highway some happier make;

If you can’t be a muskie then just be a bass–

But the liveliest bass in the lake!



We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew,

There’s something for all of us here.

There’s big work to do and there’s lesser to do,

And the task we must do is the near.



If you can’t be a highway then just be a trail,

If you can’t be the sun be a star;

It isn’t by size that you win or you fail–

Be the best of whatever you are!



Douglas Malloch

poem: The Fighter

I fight a battle every day


Against discouragement and fear;

Some foe stands always in my way,

The path ahead is never clear!

I must forever be on guard

Against the doubts that skulk along;

I get ahead by fighting hard,

But fighting keeps my spirit strong.



I hear the croakings of Despair,

The dark predictions of the weak;

I find myself pursued by Care,

No matter what the end I seek;

My victories are small and few,

It matters not how hard I strive;

Each day the fight begins anew,

But fighting keeps my hopes alive.



My dreams are spoiled by circumstance,

My plans are wrecked by Fate or Luck;

Some hour, perhaps, will bring my chance,

But that great hour has never struck;

My progress has been slow and hard,

I’ve had to climb and crawl and swim,

Fighting for every stubborn yard,

But I have kept in fighting trim.



I have to fight my doubts away,

And be on guard against my fears;

The feeble croaking of Dismay

Has been familiar through the years;

My dearest plans keep going wrong,

Events combine to thwart my will,

But fighting keeps my spirit strong,

And I am undefeated still!

S.E. Kiser

poem: Stand Forth

Stand forth, my soul, and grip thy woe,


Buckle the sword and face thy foe.

What right hast thou to be afraid

When all the universe will aid?

Ten thousand rally to thy name,

Horses and chariots of flame.

Do others fear? Do others fail?

My soul must grapple and prevail.

My soul must scale the mountainside

And with the conquering army ride–

Stand forth, my soul!



Stand forth, my soul, and take command.

‘Tis I, thy master, bid thee stand.

Claim thou thy ground and thrust thy foe,

Plead not thine enemy should go.

Let others cringe! My soul is free,

No hostile host can conquer me.

There lives no circumstance so great

Can make me yield, or doubt my fate.

My soul must know what kings have known.

Must reach and claim its rightful throne–

Stand forth, my soul!

Angela Morgan

Poem Desire

whats a desire?


a wish or a dream?

Its lyk a sponge cake,

without toppins of cream.



how far do u reach,

to accomplish ur desires;

till energy and commitment,

present in u fires.

desires still remain unending,

as the human soul is always demanding.



how it feels,

when desires are fulfilled;

with the sense of happiness,

emotions r sealed.

tears may run down

on the glossy cheeks.

on ur face,

the satisfactn speaks.



is fullfillment of all desires,

the end of life?

no, but its the stage,

when progress is on d edge of d knife.

thus, the desires shud remain unendin,

until ur contribution,

to d society is pending.



desires shud b such,

dat leave a mark,

for d world will c u,

as d eyes dat spark.

desires put ur life in a mould,

to make it difficult,

for d million hands to reach dat fold.

truly – sonam.

Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind;


To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet;

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them;

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true;

To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best;

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own;

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future;



To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile;

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others;

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble;

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds;



To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.