Inspiring Poems

All wonderful poems but * are my very favorites

Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46446


*Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/geese/geese.html


*Golden Retrievals
by Mark Doty
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47252


The Sparrow
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sparrow-4/


Fifty Robins
by Amber Coverdale Sumrall
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/amber-coverdale-sumrall-fifty-robins.html


*When I see birches bend
by Robert Frost
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44260


*Aimless Love
by Billy Collins
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/09/billy-collins-aimless-love.html


Nutting
by William Wordsworth
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45533


If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-i-can-stop-one-heart-from-breaking/


*Warning
by Jenny Joseph
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/warning/


Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 3, Page 3,
Polonius' Monologue, To Thine Ownself Be True
by William Shakespeare
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/page_44.html


Dust of Snow
by Robert Frost
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/dust-snow


*The Snow Man
by Wallace Stevens
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45235


Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
by Dylan Thomas
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night


*Desiderata
by Max Ehrmann
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/desiderata-6/


A Brave and Startling Truth
by Maya Angelou
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/06/maya-angelou-brave-and-startling-truth.html


Touch Me
by Stanley Kunitz
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/antholog/kunitz/touchme.htm


Still Point
by Max Reif
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/12/max-reif-still-point.html


Thanksgiving
by Robert Nichols
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57230


*The Peace Of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry
https://prezi.com/cmpiliesui2g/the-peace-of-wild-things-by-wendell-berry/


The Summer Day
by Mary Oliver
https://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html


In Spite of War
by Angela Morgan
http://www.bartleby.com/271/142.html


If You Forget Me
by Pablo Neruda
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-you-forget-me/


The Daffodils
by William  Wordsworth
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45521


Invictus
by William Ernest Henley
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/51642


I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
by Eva Rose York
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/i-shall-not-pass-way-again-0


The Invitation
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
http://www.oriahmountaindreamer.com/


Today
by Billy Collins
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/40824


Say not the struggle
by Arthur Hugh Clough
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43959


Beauty as a Shield
by Elsie Robinson
http://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10121019


Worst Day Ever?
by Chanie Gorkin
https://www.poetrynation.com/poems/worst-day-ever/


What I Learned from My Mother
by Julia Kasdorf
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48491


A Japanese Wood-Carving
by Amy Lowell
http://themargins.net/anth/1910-1919/lowellwood.html


*On a Perfect Day
by Jane Gentry
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/09/jane-gentry-on-perfect-day.html


This Freedom
by Richard Brady
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/11/richard-brady-this-freedom.html


I Believe Nothing
by Kathleen Raine
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/12/kathleen-raine-i-believe-nothing.html


*The Art of Blessing the Day
by Marge Piercy
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/08/marge-piercy-art-of-blessing-day.html


*The Book of Hours
by Joyce Sutphen
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/08/joyce-sutphen-book-of-hours.html


The Last Things I'll Remember
by Joyce Sutphen
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/07/joyce-sutphen-last-things-ill-remember.html


*Heavy
by Mary Oliver
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/05/mary-oliver-heavy.html


Love
by Czeslaw Milosz
https://www.lionsroar.com/about-a-poem-carole-glasser-langille-on-czeslaw-miloszs-love-november-2012/


My Weather
by Jane Hirshfield
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/05/jane-hirshfield-my-weather.html


The Promise
by Jane Hirshfield
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/02/jane-hirshfield-promise.html


Magic
by Jenifer Nostrand
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/12/jenifer-nostrand-magic.html


*Beannacht
by John O'Donohue
(Gaelic: beannacht=blessing, currach=boat)
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/john-odonohue-beannacht.html


A Prayer
by Toyohiko Kagawa
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/toyohiko-kagawa-prayer.html


*Morning in December
by Clarice Thompson
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/12/clarice-thompson-morning-in-december.html


talisman
by Suheir Hammad
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/suheir-hammad-talisman.html


Intimations of Immortality
by William Wordsworth
https://harpers.org/blog/2010/03/wordsworth-intimations-of-immortality/


Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poems/detail/42891


The Sugar-Plum Tree
by Eugene Field
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/sugar-plum-tree


Hello World
by Dan Coppersmith
http://jlewisandco.weebly.com/1/post/2011/11/hello-world.html

Japan
by Billy Collins
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/japan/


On How to Pick and Eat Poems
by Phyllis Cole-Dai
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2016/01/phyllis-cole-dai-on-how-to-pick-and-eat.html


I Dream of a Quiet Man
by Wendell Berry
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/08/wendell-berry-i-dream-of-quiet-man.html


*If the Moon Came Out Only Once a Month
by Cathy Ross
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/08/cathy-ross-if-moon-came-out-only-once.html


Instructions
by Sheri Hostetler
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/07/sheri-hostetler-instructions.html


*Welcome Morning
by Anne Sexton
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/07/anne-sexton-welcome-morning.html


*Imperfection
by Elizabeth Carlson
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/06/elizabeth-carlson-imperfection.html


A Christmas Carol
"If I could work my will"
by Charles Dickens
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol#Stave_1:_Marley.27s_Ghost


Here Now
by Samuel Menashe
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/05/samuel-menashe-here-now.html

I Confess
by Alison Luterman
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/03/alison-luterman-i-confess.html


Sometimes, I Am Startled Out of Myself
By Barbara Crooker
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/04/barbara-crooker-sometimes-i-am-startled.html


Samurai Song, 14th Century
Anonymous
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/05/anonymous-samurai-song-14th-century_15.html


That Lives in Us
by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/05/rumi-that-lives-in-us.html


Living Things
by Anne Porter
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/11/anne-porter-living-things.html


*Upon Discovering My Entire Solution to the Attainment of Immortality Erased From the Blackboard Except the Word `Save'
by Dobby Gibson
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/12/dobby-gibson-upon-discovering-my-entire.html


*Winter Afternoon, Early December
by Tom Montag
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/12/tom-montag-winter-afternoon-early.html


Choices
by Tess Gallagher
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/01/tess-gallagher-choices.html


*The Patience of Ordinary Things
by Pat Schneider
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/01/pat-schneider-patience-of-ordinary.html


Seeking for Happiness
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/02/ella-wheeler-wilcox-seeking-for.html


Da Capo
by Jane Hirshfield
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/05/jane-hirshfield-da-capo.html


*Directions
by Billy Collins
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/05/billy-collins-directions.html


Don't Give Up
by Mario Benedetti
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/07/mario-benedetti-dont-give-up.html


Learning from Trees
by Grace Butcher
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/10/grace-butcher-learning-from-trees.html


A Morning Offering
by John O'Donohue
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/10/john-odonohue-morning-offering.html

Looking at the Sky
by Anne Porter
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/01/anne-porter-looking-at-sky.html


If deepest grief is hell
by Gregory Orr
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/02/gregory-orr-untitled-if-deepest-grief.html


Simple Instructions
by Judith Heron
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/02/judith-heron-simple-instructions.html


You May Leave a Memory, or You Can Be Feted by Crows
by Dick Allen
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/02/dick-allen-you-may-leave-memory-or-you.html


Easter Exultet
by James Broughton
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/04/james-broughton-easter-exultet.html


When I Was the Forest
by Meister Eckhart
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/04/meister-eckhart-when-i-was-forest.html

The Time Before Death
by Kabir
https://100.best-poems.net/time-death.html


The Journey
by Mary Oliver
https://www.best-poems.net/mary_oliver/the_journey.html


Love After Love
by Derek Walcott
https://www.best-poems.net/poem/love-after-love-by-derek-walcott.html


Each Day A Life
by Robert William Service
https://100.best-poems.net/each-day-life.html


*Progress (Let there be many windows to your soul)
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox/Progress.html


*What's the Life of a Man - lyrics
http://www.songlyrics.com/steeleye-span/what-s-the-life-of-a-man-lyrics/


*What's the Life of a Man -video
performed by William Parsons (Will Walking)
and Guy Hayward
https://www.facebook.com/willwalking/videos/318301515806235/


*What's the Life of a Man -video
performed by Alex Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slS_ky8ZYUc


*Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/renascence


*Sonnet 29
by William Shakespeare
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45090/sonnet-29-when-in-disgrace-with-fortune-and-mens-eyes


*Sonnet 34
by William Shakespeare
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90049/sonnet-34-why-didst-thou-promise-such-a-beauteous-day


*She Thought Of Painting
by Stacey Robinson
https://staceyzrobinson.blogspot.com/2019/01/she-thought-of-painting.html


*Epitaph
by Merrit Malloy
also a meditation read before the Kaddish Yatom Mourner's Kaddish
http://centralillinoiscelebrant.com/blog/2015/03/give-whats-left-of-me-away-a-jewish-meditation/


*To a Waterfowl
by William Cullen Bryant
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51861/to-a-waterfowl


*Make the Ordinary Come Alive
by William Martin
https://www.davidlose.net/2014/02/make-the-ordinary-come-alive/


*Valentine for Ernest Mann
by Naomi Shihab Nye
https://poets.org/poem/valentine-ernest-mann