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.
Kingvirky
Poem Published
Today 4:30pm
Today 4:30pm
Glory and Honour
Glory and honour,
Drawn swords and blazing guns
We will all die but I will go out fighting
Folded flag and a 21 gun salute
I will be remembered a hero!
Drawn swords and blazing guns
We will all die but I will go out fighting
Folded flag and a 21 gun salute
I will be remembered a hero!
#courage
#death
#earth
#respect
#sacrifice
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MaryWalker
Poem Published
Today 4:22pm
Today 4:22pm
NSFW
I know better now than then
Ages nineteen to fifteen
pure as the driven snow
we were a stable of ponies
purely for show
In retrospect, pigtailed
swine with bacon behinds
may have been more apropos;
our hormones unstabled
and iris skies ablaze with
flashbulbed fireworks
choking down hairspray
and deoderant fumes
while changing costumes
and that's when
he. just. walked. in. on. us.
with little advanced notice...
Ages nineteen to fifteen
pure as the driven snow
we were a stable of ponies
purely for show
In retrospect, pigtailed
swine with bacon behinds
may have been more apropos;
our hormones unstabled
and iris skies ablaze with
flashbulbed fireworks
choking down hairspray
and deoderant fumes
while changing costumes
and that's when
he. just. walked. in. on. us.
with little advanced notice...
#women
#beauty
#abuse
#horses
#AliceFulton
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Ricky-sJournals
Poem Published
Today 12:44pm
Today 12:44pm
I do
spin a wheelchair dance
and I don’t find it funny either
and I don’t find it funny either
#funny
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Ricky-sJournals
Poem Published
Today 3:55am
Today 3:55am
What’s with the wasn’t me?
What’s with being just as rude as some
rhyming more words
and the skilled failing to acknowledge that?
I think jealousy
or stupidity
rhyming more words
and the skilled failing to acknowledge that?
I think jealousy
or stupidity
#WritingPoetry
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Olivia-H
Poem Published
Today 00:03am
Today 00:03am
The Doctrine
The first step
To know yourself
Is to accept
You don't
It's like that
To know yourself
Is to accept
You don't
It's like that
#LifeChangingMoment
#SelfDiscovery
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Ricky-sJournals
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:51pm
Yesterday 7:51pm
Stand in the light
But not if you’re a vampire
you won’t then have a
chance to say it wasn’t me
you won’t then have a
chance to say it wasn’t me
#dark
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Alan-S-Jeeves
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:24pm
Yesterday 4:24pm
Never Mind The Weather
The coldest, forceful wind may blow;
The sun may, sometimes, golden glow;
The rain may, often, showery show;
The sky may dust the land with snow.
When it blows my hat is tied;
In the heat, 'neath shade I hide;
I shy from rain until it's dried;
As it snows I stay inside.
I don't mind a raucous gale
Or the sunburn in the vale
Nor the damp as raindrops sail
I love the biting snowflake hail.
A gust may roar throughout the night
But by the day the sun may bright;
A storm may rage with all its might ~
The...
The sun may, sometimes, golden glow;
The rain may, often, showery show;
The sky may dust the land with snow.
When it blows my hat is tied;
In the heat, 'neath shade I hide;
I shy from rain until it's dried;
As it snows I stay inside.
I don't mind a raucous gale
Or the sunburn in the vale
Nor the damp as raindrops sail
I love the biting snowflake hail.
A gust may roar throughout the night
But by the day the sun may bright;
A storm may rage with all its might ~
The...
#earth
#rain
#morning
#night
#snow
7 reads
2 Comments
oskar
Poem Published
Yesterday 10:16am
Yesterday 10:16am
careworn sun
Careworn sun
It was early Sunday morning.
I saw a red sun struggling to get over a mountain range
and then it was morning.
A cat jumped up on a car roof, the vehicle's alarm
sounded, blinking light that stopped after a little while
no one came out to investigate.
The silence was profound I could hear the town breathing
rhythmically in and out, a dog barked but thought better
abruptly stopped.
The day with its opportunity, pleasure and grief began.
It was early Sunday morning.
I saw a red sun struggling to get over a mountain range
and then it was morning.
A cat jumped up on a car roof, the vehicle's alarm
sounded, blinking light that stopped after a little while
no one came out to investigate.
The silence was profound I could hear the town breathing
rhythmically in and out, a dog barked but thought better
abruptly stopped.
The day with its opportunity, pleasure and grief began.
#kindness
#motivational
#inspirational #admiration
#inspirational #admiration
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2 Comments
RiAN
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:53am
Yesterday 7:53am
paladin
An auditorium
where basking frequencies
spiral outwards
into chivalric countenance
From deepest sentient sleep
each lingering line
nourishes nimbus light
a kindred sun is humming
through your eloquence
and I capture
polinated
heartshaped
stardust
where basking frequencies
spiral outwards
into chivalric countenance
From deepest sentient sleep
each lingering line
nourishes nimbus light
a kindred sun is humming
through your eloquence
and I capture
polinated
heartshaped
stardust
#love
#gratitude
#admiration
18 reads
2 Comments
Antibet
Johnnie
Johnnie
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:44am
Yesterday 5:44am
Hormone blues
Sitting on the heater trying to fight against the cold
Me bollocks freezing off tonight I must be getting old
Five jumpers and a water bottle can't keep out the chill
A dozen cups of tea ain't worked I'm wondering what will
I need one of me hot flushes oh that would hit the spot
But they only appear when I'm already boiling hot
Oh well at least I'm dry in here away from all the rain
Until I go out for a fag and get pissed on again
Johnnie
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Me bollocks freezing off tonight I must be getting old
Five jumpers and a water bottle can't keep out the chill
A dozen cups of tea ain't worked I'm wondering what will
I need one of me hot flushes oh that would hit the spot
But they only appear when I'm already boiling hot
Oh well at least I'm dry in here away from all the rain
Until I go out for a fag and get pissed on again
Johnnie
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#LifeCycle
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Jestalessa
Poem Published
21st Nov 2020 8:16pm
21st Nov 2020 8:16pm
enough of that, turn on the moon
I’d remembered it as a terrible thing
when that switch flipped
the survival click that says
“you’ve felt enough of that, love”
I’d remembered hopelessness &numb
as a traumatic acceptance of bygones
settling in for the long haul
losing sight of the fact that this
is what cages were for
that we can be trained all our lives to pace
roar to an audience
to bash our heads against bars
that have long up &left only dust
and us, alone in the ring
I was ready
when the night lights came on this time...
when that switch flipped
the survival click that says
“you’ve felt enough of that, love”
I’d remembered hopelessness &numb
as a traumatic acceptance of bygones
settling in for the long haul
losing sight of the fact that this
is what cages were for
that we can be trained all our lives to pace
roar to an audience
to bash our heads against bars
that have long up &left only dust
and us, alone in the ring
I was ready
when the night lights came on this time...
#learning
28 reads
2 Comments
dkzksaxxas_DanielX
Poem Published
21st Nov 2020 7:58pm
21st Nov 2020 7:58pm
A + A = Whatever You Wish
Photo: of a photo of BONGO (on 'puter screen), by dkzk2019
all for you all for me
acrimonious antipathy
taking place at the front door
taking place where eagles soar
taking place'bout any place
right thru the guts of a human race
ne'er saw it comin, no matter if we had,
Mamma ne'er tol'us it'd be so gddamn bad.
There he were as There he would be
Struttin on'top [of] that Sea'o Galilea.
there he goes, little splishsplash bath,
takes a lot to raise any kind of wrath.
...
all for you all for me
acrimonious antipathy
taking place at the front door
taking place where eagles soar
taking place'bout any place
right thru the guts of a human race
ne'er saw it comin, no matter if we had,
Mamma ne'er tol'us it'd be so gddamn bad.
There he were as There he would be
Struttin on'top [of] that Sea'o Galilea.
there he goes, little splishsplash bath,
takes a lot to raise any kind of wrath.
...
#hope
#confessional
#uplifting
#racism
#inequality
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