Life Is What You Make It! Poem by Shahzia Batool

Life Is What You Make It!

Rating: 3.9


What you feel
What you think
i know that i don't know...
What you like
What you dislike...
i confess that i can't guess...
Yet i find
your stony heart
is rocky hard
To fairies' hymns
And mermaids' songs;
chirping birds;
To gardens' charms and smiling buds;
but i know
this life is tough
And full of pains n spiky thorns...
so close your eyes
And do realize
To make this life:
soft and rosy,
sweet and cozy,,
you should change
your frame of mind,
And be at once
So nice and kind...! ! !

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Valerie Dohren 24 May 2012

A lovely poem with a great message.

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Captain Cur 23 May 2012

Layered well. We do not know what are peers are feeling or thinking, we can only share our joys and positive outlook and try to open eyes. Well written with a lasting message.

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I liked the use of short lines, beautiful. the ending lines are my fav. : To make this life: soft and rosy, sweet and cozy, , you should change your frame of mind, And be at once So nice and kind...! ! ! the poem also gives a memorable message.

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Rizvana Parveen 20 March 2012

beautiful lines.....To make this life: soft and rosy, sweet and cozy, , you should change your frame of mind, And be at once So nice and kind....very practical indeed.

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Vipins Puthooran 14 March 2012

Life, I confess that i can't guess.. Really a great poem)))) 10

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M Asim Nehal 15 November 2015

Mensitria....everything is the product of mind, what we see is what mind want us to see....10+++

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Shahzia Batool 01 January 2014

you are right Bri...human wiring is not set on a switch to turn ON and OFF on will...i know...but let me be a li'l unrealistic for a while, what harm is there? : (

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Bri Edwards 01 January 2014

There is a big BIG difference between should and could. i think i would need to know more about the one with the stony heart before i could imagine him/her being able to easily change the frame of mind. of course, with a little or a lot of help from others it might be possible. an interesting poem, but i think a bit unrealistic. actually i think a LOT unrealistic! thanks for sharing. now where is that hamlet poem? bri :)

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Walterrean Salley 19 April 2013

but i know this life is tough And full of pains n spiky thorns... This is reality. But each has a part to play in making life better for ALL.

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Valsa George 29 June 2012

A life divorced from all finer things is indeed abarren, rocky life! .... great thougts in simple words..... excellent! ! !

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