Poet: Unknown
If a task is once begun
Never leave it till it's done.
Be the labor great or small,
Do it well or not at all.
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Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
On this blessed day, your birthday's here,
Let joy and laughter fill the air.
With each passing year, you shine so bright,
Embracing life's wonders with all your might.
Birthday Poems
Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers,
Kind deeds are the fruits,
Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine,
Kind words, and Kind deeds.
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Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
Embrace the freedom, let worries dissolve,
New adventures await, no problems to solve.
With a lifetime of memories and lessons learned,
This new chapter is joyfully earned.
Embrace the possibilities, skies open wide,
Off to retirement you shall ride.
More Retirement Poems
Poet: Whittier
Our lives are albums, written through
With good or ill - with false or true -
And, as the blessed angels turn
The pages of our years,
God grant they read the good with smiles,
And blot the bad with tears.
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Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
In this tiny baby, a miracle unfolds,
A bundle of joy, a story yet untold.
With every smile, the world's a little brighter,
A precious soul, a heart's true igniter.
Baby Poems
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
Thank you, a phrase so small, yet so grand,
Expressing gratitude, hand in hand.
For kindness shown and love bestowed,
Thank you, a heartfelt ode.
In every act, your care and grace,
Illuminate life's precious embrace.
With gratitude, our spirits ignite,
Thank you, for making everything right.
Thank You Poems
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
In gardens, where beauty flows,
A symphony of colors, a sight that glows.
The rose, a marvel with grace untold,
A masterpiece of nature's own mold.
See the beauty not the thorns
As each new day does dawn.
Rose Poems
Poet: Edgar A. Guest
Be a friend.
You don't need glory.
Friendship is a simple story.
More Friendship Poems
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
Let laughter dance in joyful play,
Embrace its magic, come what may.
With hearts uplifted, worries sway,
Laugh every day, and troubles decay.
Life is too short not to laugh
Laugh and your problems will be cut in half!
Poems About Laughter
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
There is nothing like a grandparents' love,
An unbreakable bond, like stars above.
Wise in counsel, yet youthful and free,
Together we did climb the trees.
With hearts so warm, their presence grand,
Creating memories, hand in hand.
Grandparents Poems
Poet: Mabel Wilton
If you want to be happy,
just begin to be glad
Keep thinking of others
And never be sad.
Don’t wait till tomorrow
but start right away
Just doing one kindness
For someone today!
More Thinking Of You Poems
Poet: Unknown
A wise old owl lived in an oak,
The more he saw, the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard,
Why can't we be like that old bird?
More Funny Poems
Poet: Unknown
The world can't see your dreams, pard.
Can't see them soar and mount;
They're big things to you, and it may seem hard.
But just what you do will count.
More Good Morning Poems
by Sarah K. Bolton
Now is the time to love, and, better still,
To serve our loved ones, over passing ill
To rise triumphant ; thus the perfect flower
Of life shall come to fruitage : wealth amass
For grandest giving ere the time be gone.
Be glad to-day, to-morrow may bring tears;
Be brave to-day, the darkest night will pass,
And golden rays will usher in the dawn:
Who conquers now shall rule the coming years.
More Short Love Poems
Chinese Wisdom
If you are planning for a year,
sow rice:
If you are planning for a decade,
plant trees;
If you are planning for a lifetime,
educate people.
More Positive Poems
Poet: Wilhelmina Stitch
You're winning. You simply cannot fail.
The only obstacle is doubt;
There's not a hill you cannot scale
Once fear is put to rout.
Don't think defeat, don't talk defeat,
The word will rob you of your strength.
"I will succeed," This phrase repeat
Throughout the journey's length.
More Inspirational Poems
Poet: Victor Hugo
A house is built of logs and stone,
Of tiles and posts and piers;
A home is built of loving deeds
That stand a thousand years.
More Poems About Home
Poet: Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
The inner half of every cloud
Is bright and shining;
I therefore turn my clouds about,
And always wear them inside out
To show the lining.
More Motivational Poems
Poet: Charles Russell Wakeley
But kindly, gracious deeds abide,
Their wealth will not depart;
Their flowers of joy are multiplied
In gardens of the heart.
More Kindness Poem
Poet: George Eliot
You love the roses - so do I. I wish
The sky would rain down roses, as they rain
From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?
Then all the valley would be pink and white
And soft to tread on. They would fall as light
As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be
Like sleeping and like waking, all at once!
More Flower Poems
Poet: Unknown
This world we're livin' in
Is mighty hard to beat;
We get a thorn with every rose -
But ain't the roses sweet!
More Rose Poems
Poet: Heather K. Barclay
Harsh words, like chickens, love to stray
but they come home to rest each day.
If you have angry words to say-
stop and think!
More Poems About Anger
Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If Spring came but once in a century,
instead of once a year,
or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake,
and not in silence,
what wonder and expectation there would be in
all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
More Spring Poems
Poet: D. W. Whittle
Never a trial that He is not there,
Never a burden that He does not bear,
Never a sorrow that He does not share,
Moment by moment I'm under His care.
Moment by moment I'm kept in His love,
Moment by moment I've light from above,
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine,
Moment by moment, 0 Lord, I am Thine.
More Poems About God
Poet: Joseph Campbell
As a white candle
In a holy place
So is the beauty
Of an aged face.
More Birthday Poems For Mom
Poet: Clara Edmunds-Hemingway
A gull rides the waves, as if
Made for the sea,
A swallow will sail high in air
Oh let my soul rise, let it
Soar far and free;
Oh mount on the high winds of care.
More Poems About Effort
Poet: Pearl Yeadon McGinnis
I have no Yesterdays,
Time took them away;
Tomorrow may not be -
But I have Today.
More A Life Well Lived Poem
Poet: Robert Frost
The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean -
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition
More Famous Friendship Poems
Poet: Unknown
I sought a soul,
But my soul I could not see.
I sought my God,
But my God eluded me.
I sought my brother,
And I found all three.
More Brother Poems
Poet: John McLeod, ©
It's the little bit of sunshine
Lighting up the dullest day,
That brings a glow of pleasure
As we journey on Life's way.
It's the simple things that please us
Like a willing kindness done,
That son blow away each storm-cloud
'Till once more we see the sun.
More Good Morning Poems
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer, © 2015
One, two,
What's your point of view.
Three, four,
Is life a bore?
Five, six,
Or is it the kicks?
Seven, eight,
Maybe its fate.
Nine, Ten,
Let's think again.
Eleven, twelve,
Let's check our shelve.
Thirteen, fourteen,
What does it all mean?
Fifteen, sixteen,
Is life a field of green?
Seventeen, eighteen,
Or do you need to clean?
Nineteen, twenty,
Life can be plenty!
If you stop and,
Be happy as any.
More Poems About Happiness
Poet: Paul Laurence Dunbar
'Tis better to sit here beside the sea,
Here on the spray-kissed beach,
In silence, that between such friends as we
Is full of deepest speech.
More Verses About Friendship
Poet: John Imrie
The friendship of the good and true
Is more to me than gold,
And, while I welcome one that's new
I'll treasure well the old;
Old friends are like the goodly tree
Whose leafy branches throw
A grateful shelter over me
When adverse winds may blow!
More New Friends and Old Friends
Poet: Edgar A. Guest
The world is full of gladness,
There are joys of many kinds,
There's a cure for every sadness,
That each troubled mortal finds.
And my little cares grow lighter
And I cease to fret and sigh,
And my eyes with joy grow brighter
When she makes a lemon pie.
More Smile Poems
Poet: Jorge Godoy
You can live and be happy.
If you follow this rule:
Take advice from the wise man -
Give advice to the fool.
More Poems About Life Lessons
Poet: Gelett Burgess
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow
I'd rather see than be one.
More Poems for Kids
Poet: William Prescott Foster
O rainy days! O days of sun!
What are ye all when the day is done?
Who shall remember sun or rain?
O years of loss! O joyful years!
What are ye all when heaven appears?
Who shall look back for joy or pain?
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