Category: Poems About Change and Growth
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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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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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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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Change – A Poem About Adapting to the Seasons of Life
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Change Observing the seasons is a reminder that life’s only constant is change, and if you’re staying the same, you’re dying you’re falling you’re fading like ink soaked by spilled water – unrecognizable, incomprehensible, and erased from the book of life. Open your eyes to the marvel around you. Join in the song and dance…
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Purpose – A Poem About Growth and Flowers
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Purpose Waiting in the darkness is the catalyst for change. A seed hides just beneath the soil and toils to germinate. It breaks out of its hard, lifeless shell and reaches desperately for the sun. It takes root and won’t stop until it’s done flowering and offering exactly what it was born to give -…
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Poem About Addiction to Drugs Alcohol and Recovery
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Starting Today – A Poem About Relapse If resisting was an easy task,who would be a slave?Who would part with a piece of themselvesfor the chance at an early grave?Willpower alone is enough to put you in hellbut it’s not enough to pull you out.You’ll never have a chance at getting welluntil you accept living…
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Poem About Destiny and Fate
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A Haunting Fate What is this voice that comes howling in my heart… this restless ghost that suddenly comes flooding out of the fog of night… this ghoul that haunts despite my pleas, desperately pulling me towards a distant light? I consistently pull away from its advances, swatting away its hands like pesky gnats swarming…
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Short Poem About Self Esteem and Your Self-Image
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A Short Poem About Your Self-Image, Self Esteem, and Positive Thinking “The Mirror” The mirror stands tall and peers with endless eyes,full of the power to change your course in life.It’s skilled in planting and sowing your demise,yet is always willing to inspire and energize.It’s the instigator of failure’s reprise,or makes goals and dreams actualized.The…
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Inspirational Poem About Life Journey and Success One Step At A Time
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An inspirational poem about taking one step at a time on your life journey. Where are you right now? Where do you want to be? What small steps can you take to put you closer to your “ideal” self?
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Life is in the Eye of the Beholder Poem
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Life is in the Eye of the Beholder Life is in the eye of the beholder. It remains constant through the ages, But changes with each person’s view. The pixels of your life’s image Are formed and determined by you. The lens we choose to look through Is the filter that determines our fate. Blessings…
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Illusions – A Poem
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Illusions – A Poem The demon water you drinkIs devouring your soul.Don’t you know this road has no happy endingAnd your heart will turn cold? Repeating lies does not change reality.Sooner or later you’ll have to face life’s inevitable truth.Don’t set yourself on foolish paths, don’t chase foolish pursuits,And hang your happiness up by your…
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Today – A Inspiration Poem
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Today – A Inspiration Poem The sun is rising.Open your eyes to the possibility of a new lifeThat waits for you upon the horizon.Let the aroma of fresh brewed coffee stir you in bedAnd lead you from where dreams remain fixed in your headTo where they are transfigured in motion through action. Today we set…
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The Mirror of Truth – A Poem
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The Mirror of Truth – A Poem Into the mirror I gaze and am wrapped within the frame of a smoky haze of secrets swirling within glass. I can’t deny the face, can’t pretend I don’t know, have no trace of realization that the figure before my eyes is me. It’s unsettling to see the…
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Growing Pains – A Poem
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Growing Pains – A Poem Why are these dreams that stretch out across my heart’s field of desire, That glisten Like droplets of drew sparkling on the morning grass, So hard to obtain, so hard to take to take hold of, And so hard to lasso and pull close to reality? The burden is bearing…
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Beauty’s Battle – A Poem About Endurance and Fighting Fear
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Beauty’s Battle – A Poem About Endurance and Fighting Fear She sits engaged in a battleBeneath the shadow of her own face,Slowly conceding to her own demonsBrought back by their blows, crushed beneath their weight. She wonders what’s the use in tryingWhen defeat has already been secured?For what’s left of the light is dyingAnd her…
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Reflections – A Poem About Character Flaws
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Reflections – A Poem About Character Flaws The extent of my weaknesses are revealed Beneath the weight of uncertainty. I am often a self-absorbed child, Believing that time and even the world itself should stop for me. My futile fury of feeble insecurity Is shocking and pries open my eyes To inner flaws I was blind…
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