Scrap That Poetry Challenge #1 IF

Scrap That Poetry

Challenge #1 Rudyard Kipling's IFThere were so many lines in this poem that I loved...

If you can keep your head when all about you

are losing theirs and blaming it on you

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting

or, being lied about, don't deal in the lies,

or, being hated, don't give way to hating

and yet don't look to good, nor talk to wise,

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

twisted by knaves, to make a trap for fools

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue

If neither foes nor friends can hurt you

Yours is the Earth and everything that is in it

And- which is more- you'll be a man my son!

These are my favorite lines that spoke to me...

you can read previous posts that relate to the poem!

I couldn't decide on just one word, one verse, so I used the entire poem as a letter to my daughter for advice in life! I wrote her a note on the post card telling her to watch out for "mean girls" as she gets older and be herself!
I used a lighter to burn the edges around the poem... it gave it an aged/distressed look that I loved. I used red walnut ink to paint my daughter's umbrella pink, then I added some glitter dust from Stampin Up.

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