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Short Inspirational Poems

Inspiring, Encouraging, and Wise





These short inspirational poems are inspiring words of art that come from the emotions, experiences, and soul of the creator. Often times, Poets let us into their mind, heart, and spirit as they've been inspired from their personal trails, tribulations, adversity, problems, obstacles....you name it. Let these words wash over you, encourage you, and inspire you.



Inspiring Poem 1:

Count Your Blessings

 


 

Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell.

 

While others folks go hungry, we’re eating pretty well.

 

With home, and health and happiness, we shouldn’t want to fuss;

 

For by this stack of evidence, God’s very good to us.

 

 

Author Unknown

 

Short Inspirational Poems :

Perseverance


 

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

 

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success.

 

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

 

 

Elbert Hubbard

 

Inspiring Poem 3:

Time


 

Time is…….

Too slow for those who Wait,

Too swift for those who Fear,

Too long for those who Grieve,

Too short for those who Rejoice;

 

But for those who Love

Time is Eternity.

 

 

Author Unknown 

Encouragement Poems:

Patience

 


 

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.

 

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them.

 

Every day begin the task anew.

 

Saint Francis de Sales

 

 

Short Inspirational Poems :

Worries


 

 

Take yesterday’s worries and sort them all out,

 

And you’ll wonder whatever you worried about.

 

Look  back, at the cares that once furrowed your brow,

 

I fancy you’ll smile at most of them now.

 

They seemed terrible then, but they really were not,

 

For once out of the woods, all the fears are forgot.

 

Author Unknown

 

Inspiring Poem 3:

Life's Made Up Of Little Things


 

Life’s made up of little things,

No great sacrifice or duty,

But smiles and many a cheerful word

Fill up our lives with beauty.

 

The heartaches, as they come and go,

Are but blessings in disguises,

For time will turn the pages over

And show us great surprises.

 

 

Mary R. Hartman

Short Inspirational Poems :

Giving and Forgiving

 


 

What makes life worth living

Is our giving and forgiving;

 

Giving tiny bits of kindness

That will leave a joy behind us,

 

And forgiving bitter trifles

That the right word often stifles,

 

For the little things are bigger

Than we often stop to figure.

 

What makes life worth the living

Is our giving and forgiving.

 

 

Thomas Grant Springer 

Inspirational Poem 2:

Difficult Days


 

To everything there is a season,

A time to every purpose under heaven.

 

A time to weep, and a time to laugh,

A time to mourn, and a time to dance.

 

Ecclesiastes  3:1, 4

 

Short Inspirational Poems :

Hope


 

Hope works in these ways;

 

It looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst;

 

It discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot;

 

It regards problems, large or small, as opportunities;

 

It pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit;

 

It “lights the candle” instead of “cursing the darkness.”

 

Author Unknown.

 

Blessings Poem:

The Simplest Blessings

 


 

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing,

wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating;

 

There really is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

 

John Ruskins

 

Short Inspirational Poems :

Faith


 

Through the dark and stormy night

Faith beholds a feeble light

 

Up the blackness streaking;

Knowing God’s own time is best,

 

In a patient hope I rest

For the full day-breaking.

 

John Greenleaf Whittier

 

Inspiring Poem 3:

Tomorrow's Another Day


 

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

 

You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; And you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

 

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

 

 

Helen Keller

 

 

Happiness Poem:

Happiness

 


 

To complain that life has no joys;

While there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty.

 

Assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is just as rational as to die of thirst with a cup in our hands.

 

 

 

Thomas Fitzoborne

 

 

Inspirational Poem 2:

Home and Happiness


 

If solid happiness we prize,

Within our breast this jewel lies,

 

And they are fools who roam;

The world has nothing to bestow,

 

From our own selves our bliss must flow,  And that dear hut – our home.

 

Nathaniel Cotton

 

Short Inspirational Poems :

Give Thanks


 

Give thanks for sorrow teaches you courage,

 

And give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still,

 

The veil that hides you from the infinite,

 

Which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.

 

Robert Nathan

 



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