Podcast
The Moth
This poem was given to Glenn North by his grandmother for his eighth birthday instead of the GI Joe he wanted. He later memorized it and appreciated its rhythm and rhyme, which encouraged his own poetry writing.
If you can feel the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run then yours is the earth and everything that's in it. And which is more you'll be a man my son.
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Episode: Saying More with Less: Natalie Bell and Glenn Nort...
This poem was given to Glenn North by his grandmother for his eighth birthday instead of the GI Joe he wanted. He later memorized it and appreciated its rhythm and rhyme, which encouraged his own poetry writing.
If you can feel the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run then yours is the earth and everything that's in it. And which is more you'll be a man my son.
although the only thing my grandmother gave me was the poem If by Rudyard Kipling, I have to admit it was a much better gift than a GI Joe, even one with a kung fu grip.