This poem above here was not a poem on its own it is two verses of a much larger poem. Since I like to keep it complete, I will post the complete poem with of course the authors name \ud83d\ude42 Enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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Can't\nEdgar Guest - 1916 - A Heap o' Livin'\n\nCan't is the worst word that's written or spoken;\nDoing more harm here than slander and lies;\nOn it is many a strong spirit broken,\nAnd with it many a good purpose dies.\nIt springs from the lips of the thoughtless each morning\nAnd robs us of courage we need through the day;\nIt rings in our ears like a timely sent warning\nAnd laughs when we falter and fall by the way.\n\nCan't is the father of feeble endeavor,\nThe parent of terror and halfhearted work;\nIt weakens the efforts of artisans clever,\nAnd makes of the toiler an indolent shirk.\nIt poisons the soul of the man with a vision,\nIt stifles in infancy many a plan;\nIt greets honest toiling with open derision\nAnd mocks at the hopes and the dreams of a man.\n\nCan't is a word none should speak without blushing;\nTo utter it should be a symbol of shame;\nAmbition and courage it daily is crushing;\nIt blights a man's purpose and shortens his aim.\nDespise it with all of your hatred of error;\nRefuse it the lodgement it seeks in your brain;\nArm against it as a creature of terror,\nAnd all that you dream of you someday shall gain.\n\nCan't is the word that is foe to ambition\nAn enemy ambushed to shatter your will;\nIts prey is forever the man with a mission\nAnd bows but to courage and patience and skill.\nHate it, with hatred that's deep and undying,\nFor once it is welcomed 'twill break any man;\nWhatever the goal you are seeking, keep trying\nAnd answer this demon by saying: \"I can.\"<\/pre>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I \u00a0found this poem somewhere on a website a couple years ago. Loved the text and thought it was a poem really fit for me. Since I do not know the author I can not credit it. The original place where I found this poem did not displayed an author either. Apologies for that. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[354,518],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-random-poetry","tag-i-can","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}