Poetry Friday: Courage

Courage

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

The soul that knows it not, knows no release

From little things.

Knows not the livid loneliness of fear

Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear

The sound of wings.

How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate

For dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate

Unless we dare

The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay

With courage to behold resistless day

And count it fair.

— Amelia Earhart, 1927

appeared in Survey magazine

July 1, 1928 p. 60

Poetry Friday is at Mommy’s Favorite Children’s Books, I believe.

About the author

tanita s. davis is a writer and avid reader who prefers books to most things in the world, including people. That's ...pretty much it, she's very boring and she can't even tell jokes. She is, however, the author of nine books, including Serena Says, Partly Cloudy, Go Figure, Henri Weldon, and the Coretta Scott King honored Mare's War. Look for her new MG, The Science of Friendship in 1/2024 from Katherine Tegen Books.

Comments

  1. Funny how so many people find this one inspirational, and I manage to read it as tragic. Must be me. Or the biopic I saw that talked about her dark moods and whatnot. Because I’m not sure if she’s trying to inspire or just trying to work through the dark.

  2. Thanks so much for posting this. I wasn’t familiar with it. All too often in life it’s easier NOT to be brave, to take the easy route, but it’s dulling, deadening. I’m reminded to be brave, to take risks, to be most alive.

    Thanks, my friend.

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