"Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann

[thepunkgirlwtheface]

Jack Sparrow has this tattooed on his back

[sprousehouse100]

Wow iv never heard this all my 32 yrs of life but it has changed me forever. So powerful and empowering. Reminds me that everyone has the same problems and or desires if u will.  :)

[msmaling1]

Beautifully read and well done.

[troglodyto]

Loud and aggressive people, sadly, are the ones who make all the friends, and go everywhere in live.

[alphadoR09]

Damn this is so hard to memorize :\ This what im going to say on my declamation. >:(

[pinkapplex3]

This poem gets better everytime I hear it.

[triangle2U]

Thank you very much for the beautiful reading of the Desiderata. Also, thank you for providing the text with lovely simplicity. Everything you have provided complements and does not distract from the work itself. I very much appreciate what you have shared.

[xRHBFFL]

Lovely poem.

My teacher read it to us when he was leaving. I cried at it ;)

[sweetkiki16]

My favorite poem since i was a teen!! Thankyou this was beautiful!!!

[1710Mel]

I was under the impression that this was found in Old Saint Pauls Church, Baltimore in 1692!!

[John27346]

@1710Mel "and listen to others,

even the dull and the ignorant"

[HeavensSlave1]

@1710Mel That church once published it in its bulletin, not realizing it was under copywrite. AThat was back in the day things were passed along as mimeographs & Xeroxs & soon a version went around giving the impression that it was inscribed on the church's wall. An issue of Guideposts back in the late 1970s told the whole story.

[amzwiz87]

I am in love with this poem!!! It expresses everything I have ever felt about life and living!!!!

[hazmatazz]

Vincent Price recorded a reading of this poem, too. I cannot seem to find it online, though.

[HeavensSlave1]

@hazmatazz He actually did a recitation on The Carol Burnett Show. I've been searching for years for that. I don't think the Carol Burnett DVDs that are out have any of the non-skit performances from the show.

[andyrauf]

Tom, your cadence and resonate voice are perfect for this, as well as your choice of material. Bravo! Coleman Barks would do well to listen to this.

[pattipie100]

Thank you moms.....All my life you had us hearing this from you. xxxx

[lgpalencia]

@Truster I may not be in my hometown now but i did make sure my father's teaching to us are being practiced wherever my siblings and me goes. And this is one thing i am proud of in my kinship

[lgpalencia]

If all natives in my town would be able to digest and put this into practice, my place would be a better place to live.

[aTruster]

@lgpalencia Be the first.

[paulie56il]

The author is Max Ehrmann, a poet and lawyer from Terre Haute, Indiana, who lived from 1872 to 1945. It has been reported that Desiderata was inspired by an urge that Ehrmann wrote about in his diary:

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

[lrgomezmella]

That song was very famous in my country Venezuela in 1972. I like it.

[taraanderson1]

I have been practicing psychiatry for over 30 years, and over the years I have had the opportunity read this poem to many of my patienty. for many of those years. The to poem has a tendency to put the stressors of lifeinto perspectice

[taraanderson1]

So many times I have read this peom to indivuduas -orn ti itdivut

So many times i have read this poen to my patients. Portions speak to so many of life;s

speaks to so many of ssituationsre are so many "one liners, and reading and listening to the poem tends to put things in perspective. A number of my patients

[jonzkiy]

nice

[speedyida]

Does anyone know who is doing the narration? Is it Max himself? I don't think so, but could be wrong. It is so beautifully read.

[SpokenVerse]

Thank you for your kind words. I read all the poems in the SpokenVerse channel. I hope you will listen to some of my others readings. With my regards, Tom o'Bedlam

[Xelanderthomas]

@SpokenVerse You're reading that? Excellent work, my man. It really captures the spirit of this.

[pixiewilson42]

i carry this poem everywhere i go with me..it was introduced to me at 23 by a very wise older neighbour,,,this was a forgotton poem,Max Ehrmann

[Toracube]

I agree!

[Lorree06]

my mom loved this poem. i never really understood it until she recently passed away and i started to actually read it not just look at it. thankyou for posting this. -keep peace in your soul!

[ahardcas]

is it jar-el? superman's father?

[ahardcas]

i do love this poem, not just being a smart-ass.

thanks for posting it. glad there is no background music.

[SpokenVerse]

That was Marlon Brando, so you made my day.

[LionessDeWinter]

@SpokenVerse Best comment EVER. And great job reading the poem, you did it justice. :)

[EverElizabeth]

an awesome share sunsets....added to my favs.....!!!

endless stars ********

[Byronsvideovault]

Is This Great Or What?

[kxsteve]

Thanks for posting this..Wonderful..Thx. Gary for sharing

[j1o2h3n4n5y]

Wise words mate!

[blondiebabs]

oh a tender and wonderful

poem,,,,,,,tjhis is from the bible!!!!! thnaks hunni for sharing ..xxbabsie

[anitashelby]

I Really Love this poem...& Yes, Peace, Love & Light to all...Thank You Soo Much for sharing sunsets....Anita...

[garyco762]

I keep a card of this in my pocket.A poem that is so good,so extraordinary.

[sunsets1972]

This is truly good ...peace and love and light to all.

[Byronsvideovault]

NICE!!!

[tonyk421]

omg this the guy speaking was the voise of god on an old record of mine.