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Poem of the day: The Will To Win

04/06/2023

Poem of the day: The Will To WinA poem a day keeps the soul awake! For the most soulful, authentically African poetry on the internet, check out Poem of the day.

by Arnold Charles

04-06-2023 08:58

in Art and Artists

Poem of the day brings you some of the best pieces of writing South Africa has to offer. Photo: Pexels

The Will To Win If you want a thing bad enough To go out and fight for it, Work day and night for it, Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it If only desire of it Makes you quite mad enough Never to tire of it, Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it If life seems all empty and useless without it And all that you scheme and you dream is about it, If gladly youll sweat for it, Fret for it, Plan for it, Lose all your terror of God or man for it, If youll simply go after that thing that you want. With all your capacity, Strength and sagacity, Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity, If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt, Nor sickness nor pain Of body or brain Can turn you away from the thing that you want, If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it, Youll get it! By By Berton Braley RECENT POEM OF THE DAY POSTS

Help Me

No One Knows Me

A Slow Creep

Sundays Come and Sundays Go

The True Meaning Of Life

Sometimes I Dream That I Can Fly

Good Deeds

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