Upbeat Inspirational Poems
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Happy, positive, motivational and inspirational poetry
This section is for happy, light, positive and inspirational poems that provide uplifting and motivational reading. Romantic love poetry is also included here. All happy poems on a range of subjects are in one place, to give you a big choice of poems to make you smile. This is where DU poets prove that the hard, dark and dirty side of poetry isn't always a tormented place.
Adingtan
Dottie
Dottie
Poem Published
Today 4:31pm
Today 4:31pm
Purples
Nature's best musicians sing
Over lakes and ponds and streams
Sweet and salty waters hum
My guitar strings gently strum
Let the melody of worlds
Convey her gentle sound through you
Drown in deep blues
Sing in strong reds
So that you might live in purples
Follow singing rivers ahead
Go where no man's ever tread
Stay until you lose yourself
Stay until you lose your self
Over lakes and ponds and streams
Sweet and salty waters hum
My guitar strings gently strum
Let the melody of worlds
Convey her gentle sound through you
Drown in deep blues
Sing in strong reds
So that you might live in purples
Follow singing rivers ahead
Go where no man's ever tread
Stay until you lose yourself
Stay until you lose your self
#birds
#emotions
#hope
#nature
#water
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adagio
Poem Published
Today 12:11pm
Today 12:11pm
Oceans in The Sky
Nature's symphony in serenity's free verse
and acoustics of the woods' heartbeats
listening as the wings of harps take flight
and the stars of lanterns twinkle aglow
embracing tides of the oceans in the sky
a canvas of dreams where passions collide
whispering a breeze of falling leaves
a season's grace soft and meek
and acoustics of the woods' heartbeats
listening as the wings of harps take flight
and the stars of lanterns twinkle aglow
embracing tides of the oceans in the sky
a canvas of dreams where passions collide
whispering a breeze of falling leaves
a season's grace soft and meek
#fall
#inspirational
#nature #peace
#nature #peace
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
Today 10:42am
Today 10:42am
Avoid Processed Foods!
Take my order while you serve me
I don't like you or this food
How I got here, Not to sure
One bad trip, unlocked this door
I'm not feeling so fine
My stomach is cursed,
I committed a crime
Take me to that place where the elephants flew
Dolphins walked, swimming kangaroo's
I wouldn't mind if they all spoke to me
Maybe like playing charades
Sharks burrowing in trees
I've visited this place a few times in the last week
I needed a passport to meet with myself
He didn't understand me, I don't speak Greek...
I don't like you or this food
How I got here, Not to sure
One bad trip, unlocked this door
I'm not feeling so fine
My stomach is cursed,
I committed a crime
Take me to that place where the elephants flew
Dolphins walked, swimming kangaroo's
I wouldn't mind if they all spoke to me
Maybe like playing charades
Sharks burrowing in trees
I've visited this place a few times in the last week
I needed a passport to meet with myself
He didn't understand me, I don't speak Greek...
#food
#illness
#nightmares
#TruthOfLife
#utopia
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I_was_rare_once
RareFaction
RareFaction
Poem Published
Today 6:21am
Today 6:21am
Sanctuary
These white halls of pure light essence;
All doors lead the same.
For my resolve, your evanescence does flicker.
Marbled slave irony.
The rain drop falls in sweetened silence until the peace breaks the puddles ripped violence.
Oh dear finality,
My sanctuary.
Outside the world is so cold.
And whiter then home.
The bite makes bitter and the cold fights sinners in justice trials and won.
I want to be warm forever, shield me in your ever dream filled arms;
Never let me flee the white and red halls and quiet hushed calms.
I...
All doors lead the same.
For my resolve, your evanescence does flicker.
Marbled slave irony.
The rain drop falls in sweetened silence until the peace breaks the puddles ripped violence.
Oh dear finality,
My sanctuary.
Outside the world is so cold.
And whiter then home.
The bite makes bitter and the cold fights sinners in justice trials and won.
I want to be warm forever, shield me in your ever dream filled arms;
Never let me flee the white and red halls and quiet hushed calms.
I...
#memories
#peace
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backdeckbenny
Poem Published
Today 4:45am
Today 4:45am
Sleep is Death is Sleep
Went to bed to die
Slept through the whole damn darkness
Alive i write this
Je suis toujours en vie!
How wonderful.
Slept through the whole damn darkness
Alive i write this
Je suis toujours en vie!
How wonderful.
#gratitude
#happiness
#hope
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brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
Today 3:10am
Today 3:10am
I'm happy just to know you're there
On occasion, our paths cross:
fragments of interaction
encouragement
kindness
laughter
Even more infrequently, a conversation:
immediately comfortable
close and vulnerable
deep support
understanding
more laughter
I won't tell you
how these connections light up my heart
To say it aloud
would bring a weight of expectation
I don't care
if it's mutual or not
I'm happy just to know you're there
When we are nothing but starlight
I'm...
fragments of interaction
encouragement
kindness
laughter
Even more infrequently, a conversation:
immediately comfortable
close and vulnerable
deep support
understanding
more laughter
I won't tell you
how these connections light up my heart
To say it aloud
would bring a weight of expectation
I don't care
if it's mutual or not
I'm happy just to know you're there
When we are nothing but starlight
I'm...
#crush
#friendship
#respect #support
#respect #support
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Hashman
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:48pm
Yesterday 7:48pm
GREATNESS
Goodness can lead to greatness.
But it can also lead to
"just good enough"
and if that's what you want
that's fine
but for greatness
you have to fight
you have to sacrifice
you have to believe
ya gotta want it
from start to finish
from today till tomorrow
from now till then
it's all possible
it's all positive
no negitive
make it happen.
Good Enough
is not good enough,
Be Great
It's all you.
But it can also lead to
"just good enough"
and if that's what you want
that's fine
but for greatness
you have to fight
you have to sacrifice
you have to believe
ya gotta want it
from start to finish
from today till tomorrow
from now till then
it's all possible
it's all positive
no negitive
make it happen.
Good Enough
is not good enough,
Be Great
It's all you.
#courage
#inspirational
#strength
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Detritus
Poem Published
Yesterday 2:20pm
Yesterday 2:20pm
Moonlight
one step outside and wonder begins
the moon rises full streetlights contend
too cold to abide the night the wind
they push they pull more wonder descends
the moon rises full streetlights contend
too cold to abide the night the wind
they push they pull more wonder descends
#moon
#nature
#night
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oldmanG
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:51am
Yesterday 5:51am
Breathe a Breath
Breathe to me a breath I can share
Breath a breath that saves the earth
Climate will hurt us
if we are ignorant to the land
that burns us and quakes us and spins tornadoes
We should all agree living not dying
Is better than not existing even a little bit
So temperatures rise and we can’t lie
Bacon is burning breakfast on asphalt
Breathe a breathe that saves all of us
Plant a tree give oxygen to peoplekind
As fires burn the west 80 foot flames in Greece
No...
Breath a breath that saves the earth
Climate will hurt us
if we are ignorant to the land
that burns us and quakes us and spins tornadoes
We should all agree living not dying
Is better than not existing even a little bit
So temperatures rise and we can’t lie
Bacon is burning breakfast on asphalt
Breathe a breathe that saves all of us
Plant a tree give oxygen to peoplekind
As fires burn the west 80 foot flames in Greece
No...
#earth
#environment
#fire #water
#fire #water
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MalcolmG
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:18am
Yesterday 4:18am
Rebirth
Death is not destruction.
The wheel of life turns endlessly.
From smoke comes fire, from fire comes ash,
From ash springs life again.
Breath is born anew.
The fall of a tree is death,
The sprout of a seed is life.
Momentary sorrow, eternal peace.
The eternal rhythm of time.
The soul is neither born nor dies.
It flows through the ages.
Like a river to the ocean,
Life and soul journey toward liberation.
Rebirth again, death again.
The body fades, the soul endures.
Creation is infinite, the journey...
The wheel of life turns endlessly.
From smoke comes fire, from fire comes ash,
From ash springs life again.
Breath is born anew.
The fall of a tree is death,
The sprout of a seed is life.
Momentary sorrow, eternal peace.
The eternal rhythm of time.
The soul is neither born nor dies.
It flows through the ages.
Like a river to the ocean,
Life and soul journey toward liberation.
Rebirth again, death again.
The body fades, the soul endures.
Creation is infinite, the journey...
#rebirth
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msbellepoetry43
Poem Published
Yesterday 00:55am
Yesterday 00:55am
A Cold, Crisp Winter
It's getting cold outside,
The chills are settling in,
Winter has now arrived,
The sign of frost has begun.
We're stlll in the season of autumn, but
Winter has now shown its face,
The days are nice, but Chilly,
Autumn has now been replaced.
The winter is cold and it's sharp,
Get ready for a frosty chill
Please wear your gloves, coats and scarfs,
For, winter time is here!!
B.R.
Date: 11/19/2024
The chills are settling in,
Winter has now arrived,
The sign of frost has begun.
We're stlll in the season of autumn, but
Winter has now shown its face,
The days are nice, but Chilly,
Autumn has now been replaced.
The winter is cold and it's sharp,
Get ready for a frosty chill
Please wear your gloves, coats and scarfs,
For, winter time is here!!
B.R.
Date: 11/19/2024
#snow
#wind
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oskar
Poem Published
19th Nov 2024 10:07pm
19th Nov 2024 10:07pm
a painting of a woman (edit)
Woman in a painting
When she left it was snowing
she left no snow print
years passed like a stacked wood
waiting for winter
at permanent art exhibition
in a painting by Paula Rego
she was bigger now than before
Etched in her face the abuse she
the abuse she had suffered
She had survived she left footprints
that told of the misery of men
but she wore no hatred in her heart
I could no longer reach her with
sweet whispers
I believed her when she said it is for
men, who abused to feel ashamed
she walked...
When she left it was snowing
she left no snow print
years passed like a stacked wood
waiting for winter
at permanent art exhibition
in a painting by Paula Rego
she was bigger now than before
Etched in her face the abuse she
the abuse she had suffered
She had survived she left footprints
that told of the misery of men
but she wore no hatred in her heart
I could no longer reach her with
sweet whispers
I believed her when she said it is for
men, who abused to feel ashamed
she walked...
#gratitude
#happiness
#hope #inspirational
#hope #inspirational
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