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Poems About Life
Several Deep, Inspirational Poems About Life

Inspirational Poem #1: Hidden Mystery — Fred Burks

Inspirational Poem #2: Look Well to This Day — Kalidasa

Inspirational Poem #3: The Invitation — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Inspirational Poem #4: The Serenity Prayer — Reinhold Neibuhr

Inspirational Poem #5: Our Deepest Fear — Marianne Williamson

Inspirational Poem #6: Compassion — WingMakers

Inspirational Poem #7: Life is a Spiral Dance — Kabir

Inspirational Poem #8: Embracing All — Unknown

Inspirational Poems About Life

These are some of the deepest inspirational poems about life ever written. The powerful poems here will to move your heart and inspire you to open to your deeper potential in life.

Read these short, inspirational poems slowly to savor the rich wisdom shared. Once you've enjoyed these, you might also enjoy exploring a treasure trove of other highly inspirational and powerful stories, videos, news articles, and life resources available at this link.


Inspirational Poem About Life #1

Hidden Mystery
By Fred Burks

In the deepest depths of you and me
In the deepest depths of we
Lies the most beautiful jewel
Shining forth eternally

Within that precious jewel
Within that priceless piece of we
Lies a time beyond all time
Lies a place beyond all space

Within that sacred source of radiance
Lies a love beyond all love
Waiting
          Waiting
                    Waiting
Ever so patiently

Waiting for you, waiting for me
Waiting patiently for all to see
The beauty that is you inside of me
The beauty that is me inside of thee

In the deepest depths of you and me
In the deepest depths of we
Lies the love and wisdom
Of all Eternity


Note:
For other inspirational poems about life by Fred Burks, click here. To welcome more love into your life in a most inspiring way, see the Web of Love website created by Fred at this link. For a treasure trove of highly inspirational stories, videos, news articles, and life resources, click here.


Inspirational Poem About Life #2

Look Well to This Day
By Kalidasa, Indian Poet, Fifth Century A.D.

Look well to this day,
For it and it alone is life.
In its brief course
Lie all the essence of your existence:

The Glory of Growth
The Satisfaction of Achievement
The Splendor of Beauty

For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is but a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.


Inspirational Poem About Life #3

The Invitation
By Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for,
And if you dare to dream of meeting
Your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
For love, for your dream,
For the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow,
If you have been opened by life's betrayals,
Or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain,
Mine or your own,
Without moving
To hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy,
Mine or your own,
If you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
Without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic,
or to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself,
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithless and therefore be trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty
Even when it is not pretty every day,
And if you can source your life
From its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure,
Yours and mine,
And still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes!"

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair,
Weary and bruised to the bone,
And do what needs to be done for the children.

It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
In the center of the fire with me
And not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
From the inside
When all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
With yourself,
And if you truly like the company you keep
In the empty moments.


Note:
For more on the origin and writer of this short, inspirational poem about life, click here. For a treasure trove of highly inspirational stories, videos, news articles, and life resources, click here.


Inspirational Poem About Life #4

The Serenity Prayer
By Reinhold Neibuhr

God grant that I might have
The courage to change the things I can,
The serenity to accept the things I cannot,
And the wisdom to know the difference


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Inspirational Poem About Life #5

Our Deepest Fear
By Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.

We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine,
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us;
It's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.


Note:
This short, inspirational poem about life is taken from Marianne Williamson's book A Return to Love. Though often quoted as part of Nelson Mandela's moving inaugural speech, "Our Deepest Fear" does not appear in the speech. Marianne Williamson herself has commented on this mistaken attribution. For Marianne's website, click here.


Inspirational Poem About Life #6

Compassion
By WingMakers

Angels must be confused by war.
Both sides praying for protection,
yet someone always gets hurt.
Someone dies.
Someone cries so deep
they lose their watery state.

Angels must be confused by war.
Who can they help?
Who can they clarify?
Whose mercy do they cast to the merciless?
No modest scream can be heard.
No stainless pain can be felt.
All is clear to angels
except in war.

When I awoke to this truth,
it was from a dream I had last night.
I saw two angels conversing in a field
of children's spirits rising like silver smoke.
The angels were fighting among themselves
about which side was right,
and which was wrong.
Who started the conflict?

Suddenly, the angels stilled themselves
like a stalled pendulum,
and they shed their compassion
to the rising smoke
of souls who bore the watermark of war.
They turned to me with those eyes
from God's library,
and all the pieces fallen
were raised in unison,
intertwined like the breath
of flames in a holy furnace.

Nothing in war comes to destruction,
but the illusion of separateness.
I heard this spoken so clearly I could only
write it down like a forged signature.
I remember the compassion,
mountainous, proportioned for the universe.
I think a tiny fleck still sticks to me,
like gossamer threads
from a spider's web.

And now, when I think of war,
I flick these threads to all the universe,
hoping they stick on others as they did me.
Knitting angels and animals
to the filamental grace of compassion.
The reticulum of our skyward home.


For more heart-opening, inspirational poems about life by the WingMakers, click here. For the intriguing website of the enigmatic WingMakers as it originally appeared, click here. And for a treasure trove of other inspirational stories, videos, news articles, and life resources, click here.


Inspiring Poem #7

Life is a Spiral Dance
By Kabir, Indian Poet, 15th Century A.D.

There is a spiral dance between the subtle and the manifest, between spirit and matter. Spirit infuses matter, ever enhancing its life and awareness. Matter, in turn, gives form to spirit, ever striving to express and embody the limitless amidst limitation. And it never winds down.

Everything is spiraling:
a
ngels, animals, humans, insects by the millions,
heaven, earth, water, fire,
even the wheeling of the sun and moon.

On it goes for ages,
back and forth, round and round,
patiently, playfully,
sometimes exhilarating, sometimes frightening,
and the secret one slowly growing a body.

Kabir saw this for fifteen seconds, and it made of him a servant for life.


Inspirational Poem About Life #8

Embracing All
Author Unknown

Light that lies deep inside of me
Come forth in all thy majesty
Show me thy gaze
Teach me thy ways
That I a better person may be

Darkness that lies deep inside of me
Come forth in all thy mystery
Show me thy gaze
Teach me thy ways
That I a better person may be

Love that lies deep inside of me
Come forth in all thy unity
Let me be thy gaze
Let me teach thy ways
That I a better person may be


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