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.
oskar
Poem Published
Today 8:58am
Today 8:58am
war and food
The war and food
During the war years in Norway 1940 to 1945
there was little food, but the coast was teeming
with fish, my brother and I often walked down to the pier
and in a matter of minutes had dinner.
Needs make you into a thief we stole potatoes,
apples and coal for the fire.
We had a variety of fish like boiled, fried or made
into fish-cakes, but in the process I developed a lifelong
dislike of fish, but I do eat fish as long as it doesn't like
aquatic vertebrate.
After the war nicking food was no longer seen as legal ...
During the war years in Norway 1940 to 1945
there was little food, but the coast was teeming
with fish, my brother and I often walked down to the pier
and in a matter of minutes had dinner.
Needs make you into a thief we stole potatoes,
apples and coal for the fire.
We had a variety of fish like boiled, fried or made
into fish-cakes, but in the process I developed a lifelong
dislike of fish, but I do eat fish as long as it doesn't like
aquatic vertebrate.
After the war nicking food was no longer seen as legal ...
#hate
#dark
#evil
#greed
#hypocrisy
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bcpoet
Poem Published
Today 2:33am
Today 2:33am
Bay of Rainbows (2)
in the bay of Rainbows
electric light
showers are falling
day and night
twisted tails
from comets brush
the Sea of Rains
as by they rush -
the sky is filled
with sights unseen
unless revealed
by sensor beam...
ultra-violet...
infra-red
from our eyes
the scales are shed -
while all around
and deep within
the space is filled
in which we spin
in which we journey
every day
from when we wake
then slip away
to dreams of rainbows
where...
electric light
showers are falling
day and night
twisted tails
from comets brush
the Sea of Rains
as by they rush -
the sky is filled
with sights unseen
unless revealed
by sensor beam...
ultra-violet...
infra-red
from our eyes
the scales are shed -
while all around
and deep within
the space is filled
in which we spin
in which we journey
every day
from when we wake
then slip away
to dreams of rainbows
where...
#astronomy
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bcpoet
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:45am
Yesterday 7:45am
mystic evening
moving through the mystic mountains
waterfalls and coloured fountains
as sunlight dances in prismatic
spectral showers whose automatic
elevation of our thinking
close to heaven as we're linking
every moment while still breathing
mnemonically before our leaving
then flowing down to where the ocean
pulses up and down in motion
synchronized and mesmerizing
as we float in new surprising
rhythms ruled by cosmic powers
gentle breezes, showers of flowers
waterlilies from the Nile
jasmine petals each a smile ...
waterfalls and coloured fountains
as sunlight dances in prismatic
spectral showers whose automatic
elevation of our thinking
close to heaven as we're linking
every moment while still breathing
mnemonically before our leaving
then flowing down to where the ocean
pulses up and down in motion
synchronized and mesmerizing
as we float in new surprising
rhythms ruled by cosmic powers
gentle breezes, showers of flowers
waterlilies from the Nile
jasmine petals each a smile ...
#night
#rhyming
#uplifting
27 reads
6 Comments
dkzksaxxas_DanielX
Poem Published
Yesterday 3:16am
Yesterday 3:16am
No DeepRession in Hebbin
rather sad (ly)
and
most a'lone (ly) . To say that I
I
I
have
worked Hard (ly) to Achieve this
contra'dictory...
and
most a'lone (ly) . To say that I
I
I
have
worked Hard (ly) to Achieve this
contra'dictory...
#happiness
#depression
#faith
#fate
#honesty
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Ahavati
Poem Published
17th Nov 2018 9:45pm
17th Nov 2018 9:45pm
Ghost House ( after Robert Frost )
Whoever once stepped afoot
upon this now abandoned porch
must’ve toiled a daily wage
within the fields and garden gate
hanging now as rotted wood
Whoever cooked within this kitchen
canning beans and plucking chicken
surely did so with such care
her flower vase still sitting there
with wilted bloom on withered stem
Whoever slept within this room
of hand-sewn curtains billowing-
snagged and torn on broken glass ...
upon this now abandoned porch
must’ve toiled a daily wage
within the fields and garden gate
hanging now as rotted wood
Whoever cooked within this kitchen
canning beans and plucking chicken
surely did so with such care
her flower vase still sitting there
with wilted bloom on withered stem
Whoever slept within this room
of hand-sewn curtains billowing-
snagged and torn on broken glass ...
#countryside
#nature
#ghosts #historical
#ghosts #historical
38 reads
15 Comments
Chuck
Poem Published
17th Nov 2018 3:17am
17th Nov 2018 3:17am
The Bank of Love
The love in my heart
Is like money accumulating in a bank
Haven't found the right one
To invest my love in
Some has tried
To falsely advertise
Trying to enlighten a rise
For a bargain
That is really a devil in disguise
And others
Spending more love than I had
An overdraft
Leaving me empty and heartbroken
Taking many years of hardwork
To deposit and save the love
I had to replace
And a couple of women
I was being cheap
The love they deserved
I wasn't trying to spend
So they found...
Is like money accumulating in a bank
Haven't found the right one
To invest my love in
Some has tried
To falsely advertise
Trying to enlighten a rise
For a bargain
That is really a devil in disguise
And others
Spending more love than I had
An overdraft
Leaving me empty and heartbroken
Taking many years of hardwork
To deposit and save the love
I had to replace
And a couple of women
I was being cheap
The love they deserved
I wasn't trying to spend
So they found...
#FallingInLove
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Olivia-H
Poem Published
17th Nov 2018 1:43am
17th Nov 2018 1:43am
Healing Dreams
So
How’s your life been so far?
Isn’t it reflected?
[Nonverbally] I dream a lot
Now
The standard of dreams
Have grown much higher
Sometimes it is difficult to sleep
I just lie over the bed
Other time I don’t wish to wake up
Whatever
I’ll not give up on
D R E A M I N G
How’s your life been so far?
Isn’t it reflected?
[Nonverbally] I dream a lot
Now
The standard of dreams
Have grown much higher
Sometimes it is difficult to sleep
I just lie over the bed
Other time I don’t wish to wake up
Whatever
I’ll not give up on
D R E A M I N G
#LifeChangingMoment
#SelfDiscovery
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1 Comment
bcpoet
Poem Published
16th Nov 2018 6:39pm
16th Nov 2018 6:39pm
Floating on a Cloud
relax
while floating in between
breathe in
we're sharing the same dream
let go
gravity's not real
rise up
know now what you feel
release
negativity
let peace
flow from you to me
absorb
all that you have found
the warmth
while above the ground
relax
you're floating in between
breathe in
you're in a swirling beam
let peace
flow from you to me
release
negativity
absorb
all that you have found
the warmth
while above the ground ...
while floating in between
breathe in
we're sharing the same dream
let go
gravity's not real
rise up
know now what you feel
release
negativity
let peace
flow from you to me
absorb
all that you have found
the warmth
while above the ground
relax
you're floating in between
breathe in
you're in a swirling beam
let peace
flow from you to me
release
negativity
absorb
all that you have found
the warmth
while above the ground ...
#uplifting
27 reads
4 Comments
Hunterapsych
Poem Published
16th Nov 2018 00:44am
16th Nov 2018 00:44am
Outlandish dream
I want to see us all change our ways,
I wanna see us free our minds and escape this ego maze.
We need to break through and transcend reality
and go deep within to find universal unity.
I've seen the messages, I've opened my eyes,
I see the weirdness of existence and now I realize,
I am the witness to this outlandish dream.
We're all just perceiving in this universal stream.
See no division, see no more pain
The way we treat each other makes me go insane
won't we wake up and see what is being done.
Forget our hatred and see we're one...
I wanna see us free our minds and escape this ego maze.
We need to break through and transcend reality
and go deep within to find universal unity.
I've seen the messages, I've opened my eyes,
I see the weirdness of existence and now I realize,
I am the witness to this outlandish dream.
We're all just perceiving in this universal stream.
See no division, see no more pain
The way we treat each other makes me go insane
won't we wake up and see what is being done.
Forget our hatred and see we're one...
#universe
#peace
#TruthOfLife #humankind
#TruthOfLife #humankind
23 reads
0 Comments
cabcool
Poem Published
15th Nov 2018 8:50pm
15th Nov 2018 8:50pm
morning
you should have seen me broken here last night
bent low beneath the heavy hand of fear
crippled by thoughts that nibbled at my sprite
i was the prey that prayed the silent prayer
no words to woo my pain into a song
hope’s melody gone, love’s sweet tone stone deaf
nor heard the dark my deep and desperate drang
searching for sense where reason was bereft
no tears to soothe me like a healing stream
dry-stained the cheeks that drained their aqueduct
no sleep from which to peep as from a dream
a fallen bird of plumage fiercely...
bent low beneath the heavy hand of fear
crippled by thoughts that nibbled at my sprite
i was the prey that prayed the silent prayer
no words to woo my pain into a song
hope’s melody gone, love’s sweet tone stone deaf
nor heard the dark my deep and desperate drang
searching for sense where reason was bereft
no tears to soothe me like a healing stream
dry-stained the cheeks that drained their aqueduct
no sleep from which to peep as from a dream
a fallen bird of plumage fiercely...
#anxiety
#hope
#LifeStruggles
#motivational
#inspirational
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Stanhoven
Poem Published
15th Nov 2018 7:17pm
15th Nov 2018 7:17pm
Music Come To Life
Waking beside you,
my world begun
A life started,
with the,
warmth of your sun...
As I smile and caress...
your hair and your cheek,
this dormant heart...
begins to beat
A happiness to have found...
Music of my soul come to life
A living composition...
Wrapped in a musical staff
my world begun
A life started,
with the,
warmth of your sun...
As I smile and caress...
your hair and your cheek,
this dormant heart...
begins to beat
A happiness to have found...
Music of my soul come to life
A living composition...
Wrapped in a musical staff
#love
#BestFriend
#music
#rhyming
#lover
36 reads
4 Comments
adamtherapy69
adam templar
adam templar
Poem Published
15th Nov 2018 5:27pm
15th Nov 2018 5:27pm
do the dance
DO THE DANCE
Juggle my jiggling sticks
skip the light fandango
twirl and twirl again
Sleep over
wake to the sunshine
come on
shape up
time to be moving
Just take what you need
do you really need that?
Angels are waiting
Yes they have gone
no idea how
no time to work it out
the clouds have shifted
time to be out
Yes dancing shoes
and glory
anointing
and back packs
Yes promises
and ham sandwiches
an Ice cream
if you like
That dress is...
Juggle my jiggling sticks
skip the light fandango
twirl and twirl again
Sleep over
wake to the sunshine
come on
shape up
time to be moving
Just take what you need
do you really need that?
Angels are waiting
Yes they have gone
no idea how
no time to work it out
the clouds have shifted
time to be out
Yes dancing shoes
and glory
anointing
and back packs
Yes promises
and ham sandwiches
an Ice cream
if you like
That dress is...
#love
#hope
33 reads
0 Comments
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