Best Each Day Poems
To take each day as it comes
To gratefully praise The One
Joyfully face the new dawn’s grace,
That's now my everyday plan.
To take each day as it comes
To guard my thought as it roams
On anything or anyone
That's now my everyday plan.
To take each day as it comes
To be careful with my words
To use the value of my hands
That's now my everyday plan.
To take each day as it comes
To do everything I can
And bring a smile to not just one
That's now my everyday plan.
To take each day as it comes
To celebrate other’s gain
Not consciously cause another's pain
That's now my everyday plan.
To take each day as it comes
Not all the time comes the sun
For sorrow comes to everyone
And that I must understand.
To take each day as it comes
And know that I’m but a man
I will be glad, life’s not that bad
And do my part in God’s plan.
*A resolution during a time of disappointment.
Kim Patrice Nunez
04 August 2015
image credit: Edwin Hofert
Standing firm
we live
we give
we take
we learn
we strive to make sure
each day enlightens us
and brightens us
even as light fades to gray
may we keep fighting
with two swollen feet
beneath the body and soul
experiencing trials
and intense life lessons
meshed with stresses
may we persevere
turn off fear's song
may we stand firm
as we glide along
through shifty winds of change
that may cause things to sway
rearrange
but we hold true
inside the values and morality
we stand for
we
fall for nothing
we
may stumble along the trip
we
may swerve at the wheel yet
we
do not lose our grip
because no one
can eclipse the sun
yet
everyone heals
before they're done
Just when situations arise
flooding us with pain we despise
and just when it seems like
our tear ducts are dry
from ongoing cries
we may think
things are on the brink of ending
then God shows us the ways of faith
by way of love that he's sending
Standing firm
we live
we give
we take
we learn
we make sure
every day enlightens us
and brightens us
as each day takes its turn.
~JSLambert
Each Day We've a New Page to Write
(Soup does not allow ' in title line above)
Endless is childhood’s sweet story.
Its climax seems far from our sight.
As we keep adding in glory,
each day we’ve a new page to write.
Some days we fail; some we do not.
Regardless of fortune or plight,
sun rises! For what we have sought,
each day we’ve a new page to write.
How wonderful like falling snow
that lays down its white through the night,
each morning is fresh with new glow.
Each day we’ve a new page to write.
Though stories may seem to get old,
life never is worthless or trite.
Transform what you can into gold!
Each day we’ve a new page to write.
12/15/16 for the Quote Response Contest of Nayda Ivette Negron
Perceive each day as a gift!
A gift freely given “no strings attached”
With the added bonus of free will for spice
On this beautiful serving tray of life
Two choices regally displayed- The Light and The darkness
I bow, I choose the gift more profound
The gift of light, free and clear
From the God of order and mercy,
Daily admonishing "Take only what you need in life,
All excess be kind and share"
I taste it, I accept it, and I kneel in humble worship of Him
His promise-eternal life in God’s presence
Everlasting peace!
To choose the darkness where tyranny reigns
Temporal riches galore amassing
Pure foolery, as these gifts- none are ever free
All illusions, just as magic, will vanish - poof!!
From the god of chaos and lies, beguiling
"Take! Live, the world is yours! You deserve all the best!"
All this for your immortal soul
But comes a day when the bill comes due!
No grace period, no mercy, and to be paid on demandl!
I decline! I reject! this god of chaos with
His promise - eternal separation from God
Everlasting anguish, suffering and pain!
God given, Ten Commandments understood,
Divine plan in word, for man's guidance all.
Gods' rules of life, not options if you should,
commandments to prepare man for his call.
No other idols, gods, nor name in vain,
Steal not, adultery nor slander be.
To honor parents, Sabbath, dare not bane,
man shall not covet what he wants nor see.
Temptation, weakness mire man and his will,
ten simple rules most difficult it seems.
Greed and ambition man's heart to distill,
they hinder man's lives, interfere with dreams.
Ten commandments to abide or to stray,
a never, always, sometimes, choice each day.
Robert Gene Stoner Jr ©
2/15/16
I watch the splendor of the rising sun.
A new beginning when the night is done.
This light
so bright
brings hope of living fullest until night.
I live the daydreams that new morning brings;
my heart fills up with joyousness that sings.
My song
is strong
with thanks, another day has come along.
I see new daylight's swaying flowers, trees;
reflect their graceful moves in the soft breeze.
Their dance
a glance
of nature's beauty that holds me in trance.
I feel the inner peace in sunset's glow.
Though this day's done, by grace of God, I know
next dawn
I'm drawn
to capture new day's joy before it's gone.
Each day, a gift from God to hold,
that glows beneath his sun of gold.
April 11, 2016
Contest: Hope Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Mohan Chutani
Write each day to stay alive
this is my task with the pen
to etch mere words upon the page
an exclamation against the dread
lest the slope becomes a cliff
no longer there to ground a soul
the holding damned to finally fail
without foundations that must prevail
greet the sun to damn the night
this was the way of ancient man
a superstition in hindsight
the same is said of my task
to write each day to stay alive
a religion I’ll not deny
with the clergy of the poem
the congregation of only one.
Start
each day
as new page
inside the book
that holds the story
of your one life-
beginning
middle
end.
June 7, 2020
Contest: Say It In Nine - Old Or New Poetry
Sponsor: Joseph May
Every minute, every hour of each day,
my heart entreats you with longing.
I desire your heart trusts what I say
every minute, every hour of each day.
If God exists, I avidly pray
He accords my desire for belonging.
Every minute, every hour of each day
my heart entreats you with longing.
Every minute, every hour of each day,
I desire your heart trusts what I say.
If God exists, I avidly pray
He accords my desire for belonging.
My heart entreats you with longing
accompanied by true love’s prolonging.
Be
happy
without a
special reason
smile
Life can get pretty hard when relationships go astray.
I believe in love a little less each day.
Marriages used to last fifty years, now they last fifty weeks.
Couples keep breaking up even though true love is what everybody seeks.
I've gotten a lot of rejections because I don't have much money.
Everything gets dark when I begin to think it's sunny.
I have pain and anger because life goes this way.
I believe in love a little less each day.
Life goes on, despite our woes.
We are bigger than whatever it throws.
May your heart be full, your days sunny.
Laughter be yours, and plenty funny!
Be grateful for each special day.
Eat, enjoy, every minute each day.
Giving to others is the best!
Make another smile, that's a real test!
11-17-2020
~ Each Day ~
(Mixed Aquarian)
Let's pray
Each day
His Blessings send
Lord help hearts mend
Eager to know Him more
Each day more than before
With Hope
Can cope.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
February.19.2019
(Spanish Huitain)
Focus my eyes on Him each day
He's always with me when in need
Jesus is best friend I do say
He dwells in my heart and head
His words inspires me when read
With me whenever I do go
He's always there when I'm in need
Brings joy when pain in my heart grow.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
November,23,2014
Breakfast so soon
Love
Lord