Category: Life Poems
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Short Haiku Poem About Letting Go of the Past: Live the Now
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Is your past keeping you from the joy of the present? A short haiku poem about letting go of the past and living in the present moment.
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ADHD Poem About the Modern World Being Too Busy and Loud
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How do you find room for silence in a noisy world? A raw poem that captures how people that are neurodivergent or have ADHD struggle to find silence in our busy, modern world.
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If I Only Had More Time Each Day…
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What do you wish you could do more every day? With More Time I’d Have…More time to read, More time to breathe.More time to notice the unpacking of a momentbefore it packs up and leaves.More time for quiet evenings. More time for musings at dawn.More time for my toes to swimthrough waves of tall grassand…
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Poem About Imperfection, Accepting Flaws, and Not Being Perfect
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A poem about imperfection and that you can still spread light in the world despite not being perfect
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A Reflection and Tanka Haiku Poem About Adult ADHD and Distraction
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A tanka haiku 5 7 5 7 7 poem about adult ADHD and distractions as well as strategies to maintain focus and a personal reflection on the difficulties of living with ADHD.
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Short Inspirational Haiku Poem About Dreams In Life 5 7 5
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An inspirational post on chasing your passions that contains a short haiku poem about following your dreams in life 5 7 5.
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Deep Poem About Being Selfish – I Me My Mine
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In our self-centeredness, we can lose sight of the world around us and block spiritual growth. This post and deep poem about being selfish examines the cost of living looking through the lens of I, ME, MY, MINE.
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Poem About the Problems with Social Media and Technology
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A poem that contrasts the negative impacts of social media and technology with the peace of nature.
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Poem About Evil and Destruction in the World
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When tragedy and evil strike that have been caused by humans, we realize we’re still capable of some really bad stuff. And we’re not nearly as good as we think we are; the evil is just hidden under superficial goodness.Winding DownThere is no sense in denyingthat the path of humanitydoesn’t rise in glory,climbing up into…
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Summertime Poem
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SummertimeClementine nectar drips down the chin.Summertime angels swim through the air again.The crack of a bat under the lights.Kaleidoscope fire explodes in the night.Root beer floats, cotton candy dreams.Capture the flag on neighborhood teams.July heat brings sprinklers and hoses to cool;lounging on rafts, diving in pools.Wading in creek beds catching crawdads.Camping trips beneath the stars,…
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Poem about the Power of Words and Poetry
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Words are a Holy FireWords surged from the penstaining, soaking everything like spilled paint.Wood pulp thirsty in a stateof mad-eyed hunger.Paper ravenous for a glorious taste,elated to gobble up and digestthe things that time can’t erase.Don’t you know?Words are a Holy Fire,spread from the Word himself.Infused with the power of desireto transform, to turn over…
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Seaing A Poem
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See the sky like a searolling with crescent wavescrash into the dawn of day.Aurora’s tide making the darkness flee.See the puffy islands of whitefloat like buoys ina no-wake zone emerge behind the curtains of night.See the winged fish swimmingthrough waters with easechasing one another in schools,excitement for life brimming.See the metal monsters – winged, roaring…
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Happiness is Fleeting A Poem About Being Content with Life
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Happiness is FleetingIf happiness is your goalyou’ll never be whole.Always be rolling on a raging riverof emotion completely out of control.For happiness is fleeting, receding like the waterson a creek bank after a storm,never even warned that the moment one desire is fulfilled a new one is born.Seek to make contentment your aim.For it’s constant…
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Fences Poem About Following Your Dreams
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FencesThe fences of tomorrow stood behind mefree of my cage,done with grazing, agingaimlessly in this pasture of life.No longer pinned withinthe decision to end or begin.Tomorrow I wrangle dreams. Justin Farley
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Climbing Mountains Poem About Living Out Your Dreams
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Climbing Mountains A Poem About Living Out Your Dreams and Believing in Yourself The road rose in the distance insistent on wrapping around the towering mountain like twine. At its feet stood a shrine dedicated to the drowsy dreamer, the tired thinker, the sleepy schemer who had journeyed all this way only to have disbelief…
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Planting is a Prayer Poem
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Planting is a prayer. If you do it right. If you’re aware you’ve been given oversight in a chapter of a story that’s been continually expanding since the Word first spoke to the void
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Sowing Poem About Embracing Yourself and Individuality
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SowingTo harvest you must first sow,or you’ll end up in a fallstanding in a field of weedsregretting doing nothing with the seedsyou held in spring.Change comes slowly,rarely over night.Take delight in cultivatingyour corner of beauty in the world.For no other garden containsthe species of flowers you grow.So sow.Sow what you know.Sow the seeds that make…
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