“The lightest touch” Good poetry begins with the lightest touch, a breeze arriving from nowhere, a whispered healing arrival, a word in your ear, a settling into things, then, like a hand in the dark, it arrests the whole body, steeling you for revelation. In the silence that follows a great line, you can feel…
Category: inspirational poems
POEMS FROM USA: “Desert Solitaire” (may your life be like Nature, from an older post) by Edward Abbey
Where tigers belch and monkeys howl,
Through miasmal and mysterious swamps
POEMS: “Don’t dwell” (from an older post)
Don’t dwell on what might have been
or the chances you have missed.
POEMS: “The laughing song” (from an older post) by William Blake
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “A sure way to a happy day” by Helen Steiner Rice (from an older post)
Happiness is something we create in our mind,
it’s not something you search for and seldom find.
POEMS: “Sometimes” (coping with worries, from an older post)
“Sometimes” Sometimes when things turn upside down And inside out and look dark brown, I rush outdoors and gaze into The topless sky’s eternal blue, So calm and cool, so still and deep, With soft contented clouds like sheep. I shade my eyes and stare and stare, Then go back in the house, and there,…
POEMS FROM RUSSIA: “I Taught Myself To Live Simply” (from an older post)
I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky
SHORT PET POEMS: “Cats” (from an older post)
Gentle eyes that see so much , paws that have the quiet touch,
Purrs to signal “all is well”,
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Count your blessings”(from an older post)
And as I go along life’s way,
I’m reaping better than I sowed. I’m drinking from my saucer, ‘Cause my cup has overflowed.
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “From the chrysalis” (from an older post) by Emily Dickinson
My cocoon tightens, colors tease, I’m feeling for the air;
A dim capacity for wings
Degrades the dress I wear.
LOVE POEMS: “I love you” by Sara Teasdale (from an older post)
O sparrow, little sparrow,
When I am fast asleep,
Then tell my love the secret
That I have died to keep.
POEMS FROM FRANCE: “The blank sheet” by Paul Valéry “La Feuille Blanche” (about “writing”, from an older post)
On the magic mirror of its white space,
The soul sees before her the place of the miracles
