Your choice
Helplessness, nervousness, tumbling down,
You could only feel till you touch the ground,
Everything and everywhere, exuberance or despair,
You control and you decide from your toe to your hair,
You can change the world you are in,
You can fly without wings or swim with no fins,
Your fate has been molded by your palms,
You can fill it with either pleasure or harms,
Rudeness, disharmony, nuisance and noise,
Your behavior is according to your choice,
Hurt, kill, harm or just run away,
The future changes through the way,
No one can turn up your pleasant time,
Till you chain yourself in endless crime,
Remorse, crying and weeping hard,
Are the circumstances of the latter part,
But the decision is yours, how to prove
You can be the nest with your every move,
Quit all the bunkum and quaff the wisdom,
Win power and build a knowledge kingdom,
Creep low from the things that hack the heads,
Be polite in speech an consider the instead,
Possess a strong will and a brawny brain,
Then look how you could keep up in the strongest rain,
Don’t aim for the sky, target the thing beyond,
From the deadliest hells then you could abscond.
No one can keep you away from wealth,
Till you train your mind and mend your health,
Believe in truth and god and behave with poise,
Because, after all, winning is by your choice.
-Mrunmayi Mandan
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Николай Языков – Сомнение
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 82. I wage not any feud with death poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Британишский – В нашем вновь обретенном ленинградском доме
- Николай Некрасов – Не рыдай так безумно над ним
- The Caged Skylark poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: O That’s The Lassie O’ My Heart :
- To Dorothy Wellesley by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: The Fete Champetre:
- The Quality of Courage by Stephen Vincent Benet
- An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell: Of Glenriddell and Friars’ Carse.
- Владимир Маяковский – Был без работы буржуям пир… (Главполитпросвет №24)
- “Goldie Pinklesweet…” by Roald Dahl
- Олег Мехов – Ах, у нашего Антошки
- The Jingo and the Minstrel by Vachel Lindsay
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).