Submissions by AltairEndian
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Dec 2024 4:14pm
8th Dec 2024 4:14pm
Fill the silence
When you can't stand the silence
Then take deep breaths
And listen to the sound the air makes
As it enters and leaves your mouth or your nose
That is the sound of you being alive
Let this sound enfold you
Trust this sound
Whatever has happened
Whatever will happen
This sound is there for you
Until you die
Don't be scared of the void
For you can always
Fill the silence
Then take deep breaths
And listen to the sound the air makes
As it enters and leaves your mouth or your nose
That is the sound of you being alive
Let this sound enfold you
Trust this sound
Whatever has happened
Whatever will happen
This sound is there for you
Until you die
Don't be scared of the void
For you can always
Fill the silence
#hope
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Dec 2024 11:15am
7th Dec 2024 11:15am
Special
No one knows when their end comes
No one knows when tragedy will strike
No one knows what the future will bring
But we can make this life special
By being here while we are here
This is the secret
That now enriches my life
You can not stop the worries from coming
You can not stop the thoughts and feelings
What matters is how you deal with them
And the way to deal with them is to choose
What thoughts and feelings you focus on
And engage with
This is your freedom
Always
It can't be taken away...
No one knows when tragedy will strike
No one knows what the future will bring
But we can make this life special
By being here while we are here
This is the secret
That now enriches my life
You can not stop the worries from coming
You can not stop the thoughts and feelings
What matters is how you deal with them
And the way to deal with them is to choose
What thoughts and feelings you focus on
And engage with
This is your freedom
Always
It can't be taken away...
#determination
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Nov 2024 5:59pm
29th Nov 2024 5:59pm
Dear Silence
Dear silence
Will you tell me
What only you can tell me?
Do you listen
When I let my heart
Speak to you?
Will you give me
An unconditional
Love for
Just being alive?
Not matter if unpleasant
Or pleasant things
Are present
Isn't it a gift just to be able to feel?
Will you let me find, in the words of the poets
The meaning
Which you can not speak?
Like Laotse said
The name you can not name
The eternal name
I search in the words
The...
Will you tell me
What only you can tell me?
Do you listen
When I let my heart
Speak to you?
Will you give me
An unconditional
Love for
Just being alive?
Not matter if unpleasant
Or pleasant things
Are present
Isn't it a gift just to be able to feel?
Will you let me find, in the words of the poets
The meaning
Which you can not speak?
Like Laotse said
The name you can not name
The eternal name
I search in the words
The...
#peace
59 reads
6 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Nov 2024 7:57pm
25th Nov 2024 7:57pm
The greatest regret
I think the greatest regret
That I would have on my deathbed
Whenever I will be there
Is to have held on too tight
To not have enjoyed the quiet hours
With poetry, books and meditation
To not have learned to sit still
In this world which can be so unbearably loud
I am learning it now
I have anew begun the journey
After forgetting it for a time
And paying for it with exhaustion
This is the greatest advice I can give
If you want to learn one thing that will enrich your whole life
Then it is simply this: ...
That I would have on my deathbed
Whenever I will be there
Is to have held on too tight
To not have enjoyed the quiet hours
With poetry, books and meditation
To not have learned to sit still
In this world which can be so unbearably loud
I am learning it now
I have anew begun the journey
After forgetting it for a time
And paying for it with exhaustion
This is the greatest advice I can give
If you want to learn one thing that will enrich your whole life
Then it is simply this: ...
#courage
58 reads
4 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
25th Nov 2024 6:35pm
25th Nov 2024 6:35pm
I'll leave it up to you
I practice letting go
Give my brain lots of breaks
I'll leave it up to you
You know all my mistakes
I don't know who you are
But you know who I am
You are my guiding star
The way out of quicksand
The church describes you one way
But I like my own better
I like to think you are like me
Trying to steer through stormy weather
You know all in my heart
The one that I call god
The endless mistery
Trusting will set me free
So wherever I go
And whatever I do
My refuge is my faith
The...
Give my brain lots of breaks
I'll leave it up to you
You know all my mistakes
I don't know who you are
But you know who I am
You are my guiding star
The way out of quicksand
The church describes you one way
But I like my own better
I like to think you are like me
Trying to steer through stormy weather
You know all in my heart
The one that I call god
The endless mistery
Trusting will set me free
So wherever I go
And whatever I do
My refuge is my faith
The...
#faith
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Nov 2024 1:35pm
24th Nov 2024 1:35pm
Heaven is closed
Dear Reader
I have bad news
While you walk this earth
Heaven is closed
While you walk this earth you will sometimes have pain
Sometimes all your efforts will be in vain
Sometimes catastrophe will strike
Sometimes you will get what you don't like
For heaven on earth is not to be
For you are not god, and you're not always free
In other words, to put it bluntly
Perfection is what you will never see
But within this knowledge there is a freedom
I'm not saying not to do your best
But if perfection is your...
I have bad news
While you walk this earth
Heaven is closed
While you walk this earth you will sometimes have pain
Sometimes all your efforts will be in vain
Sometimes catastrophe will strike
Sometimes you will get what you don't like
For heaven on earth is not to be
For you are not god, and you're not always free
In other words, to put it bluntly
Perfection is what you will never see
But within this knowledge there is a freedom
I'm not saying not to do your best
But if perfection is your...
#motivational
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Nov 2024 6:58pm
18th Nov 2024 6:58pm
The tower
I waited long for this or that
I ran just like a restless rat
And so I made the tower
Oh what achievement must I bring
To life before my heart can sing
What input must I still consume
Before I'll bring my soul to bloom
So I sat every hour
Imprisoned in the tower
But now a wonder graced my world
I sit and let my life unfold
Within myself, stories untold
A wisdom like the wise of old
I see that joy is always here
A breath away, jaw-dropping near
For what the wise man said is true
Even though...
I ran just like a restless rat
And so I made the tower
Oh what achievement must I bring
To life before my heart can sing
What input must I still consume
Before I'll bring my soul to bloom
So I sat every hour
Imprisoned in the tower
But now a wonder graced my world
I sit and let my life unfold
Within myself, stories untold
A wisdom like the wise of old
I see that joy is always here
A breath away, jaw-dropping near
For what the wise man said is true
Even though...
#happiness
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Nov 2024 6:24pm
18th Nov 2024 6:24pm
Lying in wait
I sit, I breathe, I lie in wait
In search for just the right mind state
To catch a thought that may create
A thought that yet my soul may sate
But oh my! It does not come
So it seems I am undone
This poetry will speak to none
And still - and still I write it down
To capture essence of the hunt
This is the message, and it's blunt
You can't force from your heart what's true
Indeed, beautiful poetry
Is found in letting things just be
In sitting still, what you pursue
Will break free and come out of you
In search for just the right mind state
To catch a thought that may create
A thought that yet my soul may sate
But oh my! It does not come
So it seems I am undone
This poetry will speak to none
And still - and still I write it down
To capture essence of the hunt
This is the message, and it's blunt
You can't force from your heart what's true
Indeed, beautiful poetry
Is found in letting things just be
In sitting still, what you pursue
Will break free and come out of you
#LifeAsAWriter
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Nov 2024 6:39pm
15th Nov 2024 6:39pm
A home always with me
I realized this evening
That wherever I will live
Wherever I will go
Whatever I will do
I have a home always with me
This home is my body
And when I just sit and let thoughts and feelings come and go
Then increasingly I feel at home inside myself
In the physical feelings
And the very fulfilling practice of doing nothing at all
They say all of the problems of man
Come from him or her not being able to be
Alone in a room with his thoughts for 30 minutes
But consequently
If you train yourself to...
That wherever I will live
Wherever I will go
Whatever I will do
I have a home always with me
This home is my body
And when I just sit and let thoughts and feelings come and go
Then increasingly I feel at home inside myself
In the physical feelings
And the very fulfilling practice of doing nothing at all
They say all of the problems of man
Come from him or her not being able to be
Alone in a room with his thoughts for 30 minutes
But consequently
If you train yourself to...
#silence
48 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
20th Oct 2024 11:32am
20th Oct 2024 11:32am
Be free
Today the sun is shining
And a voice whispers to me
Be free
Don't be a slave to desire
Or the fire
Of your thoughts and feelings
Take all within
And just take it in
Like a beautiful scene
Decide what it means to you
And then decide what to do
You can decide anew
In every moment
Within the possibilities of your means
A golden freedom gleams
You have the power
This is the hour
To listen to the voice within
There is no sin
But to be a slave
As long as you don't hurt...
And a voice whispers to me
Be free
Don't be a slave to desire
Or the fire
Of your thoughts and feelings
Take all within
And just take it in
Like a beautiful scene
Decide what it means to you
And then decide what to do
You can decide anew
In every moment
Within the possibilities of your means
A golden freedom gleams
You have the power
This is the hour
To listen to the voice within
There is no sin
But to be a slave
As long as you don't hurt...
#freedom
91 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
16th Oct 2024 6:40pm
16th Oct 2024 6:40pm
Devotion
If you want to master something
You have to practice it
Over and over
Through all the difficulties
Again and again
I have found the thing I want to master
In this season of my life
It is living in silence
And cultivating a calm mind and a peaceful soul
Meditation is how I will do it
To seek the silence of my breath
In and out
Again and again
This road will be long
But I feel like this is right for me
In this season of life
And if my life ever becomes loud again
My devotion...
You have to practice it
Over and over
Through all the difficulties
Again and again
I have found the thing I want to master
In this season of my life
It is living in silence
And cultivating a calm mind and a peaceful soul
Meditation is how I will do it
To seek the silence of my breath
In and out
Again and again
This road will be long
But I feel like this is right for me
In this season of life
And if my life ever becomes loud again
My devotion...
#SelfDiscovery
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Oct 2024 1:21pm
14th Oct 2024 1:21pm
The temple
Inside my heart there is a temple
It is open and wide
It is beautiful and grande
It welcomes everyone who wants to visit
Sorrow
Anxiety
Fear
Joy
Peace
Pain
Love
And many more
All sit in this quiet hall
And though some visitors scream and shout
Their voices have enough space to echo
And the echoes soon die in the all-encompassing silence
Acceptance is the temple
That holds life with love
It is open and wide
It is beautiful and grande
It welcomes everyone who wants to visit
Sorrow
Anxiety
Fear
Joy
Peace
Pain
Love
And many more
All sit in this quiet hall
And though some visitors scream and shout
Their voices have enough space to echo
And the echoes soon die in the all-encompassing silence
Acceptance is the temple
That holds life with love
#acceptance
92 reads
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