Poems Inspired by Kahlil Gibran
#KahlilGibran
Poems inspired by Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist Kahlil Gibran. Here you'll find poetry using the style, themes or characters found in the writing and poems of Kahlil Gibran. Along with poems about Gibran himself, including praise, criticism and memorials.
JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
27th Jun 2021 5:30pm
27th Jun 2021 5:30pm
[ Gibran ] Take A Chance on Gibran
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Whenever you enter into it take your all.
Take the plow and the forge and the mallet and the lute,
The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight.
For in reverie you can not rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.
And take with you all men:
For in adoration you can not fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Make no mistake
---Mind and Universe are one
and the same...
Whenever you enter into it take your all.
Take the plow and the forge and the mallet and the lute,
The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight.
For in reverie you can not rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.
And take with you all men:
For in adoration you can not fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Make no mistake
---Mind and Universe are one
and the same...
#happiness
#universe
#MentalHealth
#uplifting
#KahlilGibran
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JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
10th Jun 2021 11:38pm
10th Jun 2021 11:38pm
[ Gibran ] I kissed a Prophet
And your body is the harp of your soul,
And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
And now you ask in your heart, "How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?"
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower.
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower, the...
And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
And now you ask in your heart, "How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?"
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower.
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower, the...
#happiness
#funny
#KahlilGibran
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PoetsRevenge
Poem Published
11th May 2021 4:48am
11th May 2021 4:48am
Ode To Night
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”
-Khalil Gibran
I
Cry with me, sultry night;
pray for the sentient things
crawling ‘neath your sight.
Glow your moon’s pale light.
Illuminate those whom pine for all
to be right and the fields of things
who count not the hours,
but wave in the wind endlessly
and futilely.
Pass me under safe care tonight,
let the voices lead me softly along:
a muted song.
Cry with me, sultry night.
...
-Khalil Gibran
I
Cry with me, sultry night;
pray for the sentient things
crawling ‘neath your sight.
Glow your moon’s pale light.
Illuminate those whom pine for all
to be right and the fields of things
who count not the hours,
but wave in the wind endlessly
and futilely.
Pass me under safe care tonight,
let the voices lead me softly along:
a muted song.
Cry with me, sultry night.
...
#dreams
#moon
#night
#NaPoWriMo2021
#KahlilGibran
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JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
21st Apr 2021 11:12am
21st Apr 2021 11:12am
[ NaPo 2021 ] [ Gibran ] You've got a Prophet in me
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay."
And when he is silent your hearts ceases not to listen to his heart,
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer
in his absence, as the mountain is to the climber from the plain.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Our friends never truly...
And when he is silent your hearts ceases not to listen to his heart,
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer
in his absence, as the mountain is to the climber from the plain.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Our friends never truly...
#friendship
#spiritual
#KahlilGibran #NaPoWriMo2021
#KahlilGibran #NaPoWriMo2021
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JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
15th Apr 2021 11:52am
15th Apr 2021 11:52am
[ NaPo 2021 ] [ Gibran ] What Does The Prophet Say?
Breeze tasting of brine
itself basking in sunshine
Hello there, Elle! Hello!
Ocean waving her on, asking
Ready to laugh and play?
"Oh, well . . ,"
she hedges from the doorway
Little Elle Oh Well
no one's gonna frown upon you
when you're doing what you love
No one's gonna drown you
in judgement or rolling tide
There's no nasty land shark
towering above
Won't you come outside
laugh and play with me?
Dip your toes into my...
itself basking in sunshine
Hello there, Elle! Hello!
Ocean waving her on, asking
Ready to laugh and play?
"Oh, well . . ,"
she hedges from the doorway
Little Elle Oh Well
no one's gonna frown upon you
when you're doing what you love
No one's gonna drown you
in judgement or rolling tide
There's no nasty land shark
towering above
Won't you come outside
laugh and play with me?
Dip your toes into my...
#sea
#spiritual
#KahlilGibran #NaPoWriMo2021
#KahlilGibran #NaPoWriMo2021
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JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
9th Apr 2021 10:22am
9th Apr 2021 10:22am
[ NaPo 2021 ] [ Gibran ] Who let The Prophet out?
You delight in laying down Laws,
Yet you delight more in breaking them.
Like children who play by the ocean building sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.
But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore,
And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you.
Verily the ocean laughs with the innocent.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
A day may come when your poetic
impact upon this world is washed away
in manner similar to...
Yet you delight more in breaking them.
Like children who play by the ocean building sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.
But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore,
And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you.
Verily the ocean laughs with the innocent.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
A day may come when your poetic
impact upon this world is washed away
in manner similar to...
#spiritual
#KahlilGibran
#NaPoWriMo2021
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JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
7th Apr 2021 8:17pm
7th Apr 2021 8:17pm
[ NaPo 2021 ] [ Gibran ] As the Prophet goes by
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness.
And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
And that which sings and contemplates within you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?
~ Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"
In the grand stream of things
you are a stone...
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness.
And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
And that which sings and contemplates within you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?
~ Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"
In the grand stream of things
you are a stone...
#spiritual
#MovingOn
#KahlilGibran #NaPoWriMo2021
#KahlilGibran #NaPoWriMo2021
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JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
6th Apr 2021 1:35pm
6th Apr 2021 1:35pm
[ NaPo 2021 ] [ Gibran ] We Are Living In A Kahlil World
Your hearts know in silence the secret of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.
And it is well you should.
~ Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"
No amount of gold
tipping the scales will sway
Fate towards fancying you
with the mate of your dreams
you feel compelled to actualize
Be thus...
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.
And it is well you should.
~ Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"
No amount of gold
tipping the scales will sway
Fate towards fancying you
with the mate of your dreams
you feel compelled to actualize
Be thus...
#spiritual
#KahlilGibran
#NaPoWriMo2021 #art
#NaPoWriMo2021 #art
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JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
2nd Apr 2021 9:19pm
2nd Apr 2021 9:19pm
[ NaPo 2021 ] [ Gibran ] What Would Gibran Do?
You delight in laying down Laws,
Yet you delight more in breaking them.
Like children who play by the ocean building sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.
But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore,
And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you.
Verily the ocean laughs with the innocent.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
This is a child on the beach
gathering sand in these hands, each
drawing towards me...
Yet you delight more in breaking them.
Like children who play by the ocean building sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.
But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore,
And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you.
Verily the ocean laughs with the innocent.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
This is a child on the beach
gathering sand in these hands, each
drawing towards me...
#love
#universe
#spiritual
#KahlilGibran
#NaPoWriMo2021
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JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
1st Apr 2021 9:56pm
1st Apr 2021 9:56pm
[ NaPo 2021 ] [ Gibran ] Thank Gibran It's Friday!
Could you but see the tides of that breath you would cease to see all else,
And if you could hear the whispering of the dream you would hear no other sound.
But you do not see, nor do you hear, and it is well.
The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it,
And the clay that fills your ears shall be pierced by those fingers that kneaded it.
And you shall see.
And you shall hear.
Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf.
For in that day you shall know the hidden...
And if you could hear the whispering of the dream you would hear no other sound.
But you do not see, nor do you hear, and it is well.
The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it,
And the clay that fills your ears shall be pierced by those fingers that kneaded it.
And you shall see.
And you shall hear.
Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf.
For in that day you shall know the hidden...
#love
#trees
#spiritual
#KahlilGibran
#NaPoWriMo2021
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PoetsRevenge
Poem Published
16th Apr 2020 5:53am
16th Apr 2020 5:53am
God's Dream
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.'
-Khalil Gibran
My God, I thought you had loved me,
as sunlight dancing through a leafy tree
and the trunk, a rough exterior,
but surely a siphoning pith within.
I held the water on my skin and loved it
and in this way, I thought you had loved me.
My God, I thought you had propelled me
like pirouetting seeds jettisoned on a soft breeze
under a great maple tree to land softly
on a canopy of mossy dampness all around me
and yet...
-Khalil Gibran
My God, I thought you had loved me,
as sunlight dancing through a leafy tree
and the trunk, a rough exterior,
but surely a siphoning pith within.
I held the water on my skin and loved it
and in this way, I thought you had loved me.
My God, I thought you had propelled me
like pirouetting seeds jettisoned on a soft breeze
under a great maple tree to land softly
on a canopy of mossy dampness all around me
and yet...
#God
#KahlilGibran
#NaPoWriMo2020
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JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
10th Dec 2019 12:52pm
10th Dec 2019 12:52pm
[ Love ] Of Twin Pillars
Three things cannot be long hidden:
The sun, the moon, and the truth.
~ Buddha
And then there is the Fourth:
Love
that often overlooked
pillar of the Universe
of which without such
nothing would come together
or be sustained with any permanence
in this impermanent firmament;
a force that can not be undone
ignored or suppressed, for long
grown wanting persists in yields ...
The sun, the moon, and the truth.
~ Buddha
And then there is the Fourth:
Love
that often overlooked
pillar of the Universe
of which without such
nothing would come together
or be sustained with any permanence
in this impermanent firmament;
a force that can not be undone
ignored or suppressed, for long
grown wanting persists in yields ...
#love
#universe
#spiritual
#KahlilGibran
#Buddhist
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