I didn’t give you the gift of life, but in my heart I know
the love I feel is deep and real as if it had been so.
Category: inspirational poems
“A PRAYER FOR THE ANIMALS” by Albert Schweitzer (from an older post)
for our friends the animals,
especially for animals who are suffering; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry;
POEMS: “The Wide Outdoors” by Edgar Albert Guest (from an older post)
The blooming cherry trees are free for all to look upon;
The dogwood buds for all of us, and not some favorite one;
The wide outdoors is no man’s own; the stranger on the street
Can cast his eyes on many a rose and claim its fragrance sweet.
BEAUTIFUL POEMS: “Tai Chi” (from an older post)
-The old man meditates and sighs dissolving his self into the iridescent vibrations of Tai´Chi.
BEAUTIFUL SPRING POEMS: “Magnolias” by Irish poet Francis Duggan
A thing of such great beauty a lovely thing to see
The purple flowers that in Spring bloom on the magnolia tree
POEMS : “Life’s mystery in a Grain of Sand” by Robert William Service
If starry space no limit knows
And sun succeeds to sun,
There is no reason to suppose
Our earth the only one.
POEMS: “Friendship” by Henry David Thoreau (from an older post)
I fain would ask my friend how it can be,
But when the time arrives,
Then Love is more lovely
Than anything to me,
POEMS: “All Nature Has A Feeling” (From and older post)
All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks
Are life eternal: and in silence they
Speak happiness beyond the reach of books;
ANIMAL LOVERS POEMS: “Hug O’War ” (from an older post)
I will not play at tug o’ war.
I’d rather play at hug o’ war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
POEMS: “Where the sidewalk ends” (take some time to be in nature) & inspirational video (from an older post)
Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
and we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
for the children, they mark, and the children, they know,
POEMS: “The Lilacs” by Edgar Albert Guest (reminders of my mother, from an older post)
I ALWAYS think of mother, when
The lilac tree’s in bloom,
It seems her soul comes back again
Upon its sweet perfume.
SHORT MYSTIC POEMS: “When Geometric Diagrams”… by German Romantic poet Novalis
“When Geometric Diagrams”… When geometric diagrams and digits Are no longer the keys to living things, When people who go about singing or kissing Know deeper things than the great scholars, When society is returned once more To unimprisoned life, and to the universe, And when light and darkness mate Once more and make…
