Poet: Julie Hebert, ©2015
The simple things in life,
Are usually in front of your eyes.
All you have to do each day,
Is look up into the skies.
Look at the beauty around you,
Run and play outside.
Find what you've been missing,
Look what's in front, in back and beside.
We usually don't even realize,
What we miss out on each day.
When was the last time you made an effort,
To go to the ocean and see the bay?
Life is so very short,
We need to take advantage of our time,
Open your eyes to the simple things,
jump up and go for a climb.
Simplicity Poem
The poem Leisure, by Douglas Malloch, points out things he is thankful for. You will notice a common theme running through the verses. He is thankful for simple things.
Poet: Douglas Malloch
I thank the Lord that I have time
For things that pay no dividends,
For song and book and sunset gleam
And sweet companionship of friends.
The song may be some simple theme,
The book some poet's dreamy rime
For those who dare to pause and dream
I thank the Lord that I have time.
I thank the Lord that I have time
To stop a moment by the way
To kiss the scented lips of flowers
And hear the voice of songbirds gay.
The lark announces morning hours,
Around my door the roses climb.
And Nature lures me to her bowers -
I thank the Lord that I have time.
I thank the Lord that I have time
To pause beside some other soul
Who falters by my poor abode
Upon the path to greater goal.
If I can help him on his road.
Can aid his weary feet to climb.
If I can ease him of his load,
I thank the Lord that I have time.
I thank the Lord that I have time
For humbler joys and humbler things.
I thank the Lord for lips that smile,
I thank the Lord for heart that sings.
If I in life's uncertain while
With word or song or cheery rime
Can light some pilgrim's dreary mile,
I thank the Lord that I have time.
Christian Poems
This poem, The Simple Life, by David V. Bush points out no matter what ambitions we have in life, no matter where we go, we often yearn for the simpler things that life has to offer.
Poet: David V. Bush
Oh, for a day in the country,
In the open wide and clear;
For the smell of the honeysuckle,
For the humming-bird to hear!
Oh, for a stroll in the valley,
0'er the rocks and up the hill;
For the breath of the lilac blossoms,
For the cry of the whip-poor-will!
Oh, for the stilly twilight.
For the evening clear and still;
For the cricket's merry chirping.
For the screech owl's call so shrill!
Oh, for a day in the country;
For the quiet early morn!
Oh, for blessed respite
From the sorrows life has borne!
Oh, for the quiet hillside.
For the restful, happy dell;
For the homestead's blissful solace;
For the peace I know so well!
Sing to me now of the country,
Of the simple life of old;
Of the open book of Nature,
And her wonders manifold.
When my brief life is ended,
And its trials ever past;
Oh, carry me back to the country.
Where rest may be mine at last.
Lured by a wild ambition,
From the fields I loved of old,
I turned to the teeming city.
And the maddening strife for gold.
Oft 'mid the ruthless struggle
For the simple life I yearn;
And back to the home of my boyhood
My restless thoughts will turn.
Yet though I long at moments
To flee to the sylvan rest,
The courage to dare and conquer
Seems surely to me the best.
For in the quiet country.
There is yet no dearth of woe;
Each human life has its burden;
For God has ordained it so.
Oh, for the peaceful country,
Where rest may make me strong!
Then back again to my duty,
To battle against the wrong.
There at my post of duty,
Amid the tumult and strife,
Let me meet with courage and patience
The changing lot of life.
Simplicity Quotes
Poet: Unknown
There's never a rose in all the world but
makes some green spray sweeter;
There's never a wind in all the sky but
makes some bird's wing fleeter;
There's never a star but brings to heaven some
silvery radiance tender;
There's never a cloud that murks the sky but
crowns the sunset splendor;
There's never a robin but thrills some heart,
his dawnlike gladness voicing -
God gives us all some small, sweet way to set
the world rejoicing.
