inspirational
Inspirational poetry is just the thing to lift your spirits or rejuvenate your creativity.
The Door, The Breath
[Verse 1] I'm tired of arguing with my own mind Teaching it the borders aren't the sky It counts the walls, the weight, the measured time While something in me keeps asking why [Pre-Chorus] This body is a room with borrowed keys A careful cage built out of certainty [Chorus] I won't mistake the map for where I live I won't call small the life I came to give Past every limit, past the narrow frame There's more of me than this familiar shape I am not finished at the edge of skin I am the door, the breath, the world within [Verse 2] I'm tired of carrying this dense disguise Every step feels heavier than truth The brain keeps filing wonder into size But wonder never learned what it can't do [Pre-Chorus] Let the old laws loosen in my hands Let me become what I don't understand [Chorus] I won't mistake the map for where I live I won't call small the life I came to give Past every limit, past the narrow frame There's more of me than this familiar shape I am not finished at the edge of skin I am the door, the breath, the world within [Bridge] If I am more than matter, let it show Not as escape, but as a deeper knowing I can inhabit every breath below And still reach past the form that keeps me going [Final Chorus] I won't mistake the map for where I live I won't call small the life I came to give Past every limit, past the narrow frame There's more of me than this familiar shape I am not finished at the edge of skin I am the door, the breath, the world within [Outro] The walls are real, but they are not the whole The body holds me; it does not own my soul
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout a month ago in Poets
We Are Here To Learn Love
[Verse 1] What we call cruelty May teach a heart to see What we call unfairness May shape what we can be [Pre-Chorus] Through every difficult door There is a lesson waiting A chance to understand The lives we’ve been creating [Chorus] We are here to learn love To hold each other gently To practice patience daily And meet the world compassionately We are here to learn love That is the quiet truth Through every loss and turning It leads us back to you [Verse 2] The road may bend without warning The answer may take time But every wounded moment Can soften what was blind [Bridge] Let tolerance be our shelter Let mercy guide our hands Let kindness cross the distance And help us understand [Chorus] We are here to learn love To hold each other gently To practice patience daily And meet the world compassionately We are here to learn love That is the quiet truth Through every loss and turning It leads us back to you [Outro] Love, tolerance, compassion That is all we’re here to learn Love, tolerance, compassion In every life, at every turn
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout a month ago in Poets
