Best Every Day Poems

Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp tightly
like a cornucopia, every day, between my hands ...



My Dog...

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Slow is the sun knowing that I am already awake...
Unwilling are these eyes to search that which has already been seen
Now, time waits upon my hands to make something unknown
Does anyone know how long it's been?
All my life has turn a shame
Years are passing without...

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Thanksgiving Every Day

Every day’s Thanksgiving while I am on this earth,
living life with gratitude for all its grace and worth.

Every day’s Thanksgiving while I have food to eat.
I can prepare whatever I like or give myself a treat.

Every day’s Thanksgiving while I can walk, talk,...

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Not Every Day is Perfect

I took my pad to the park today. 
I wanted to find an idea for a book. 
I was blocked…you know… stuck. 

I walked outside, and looked up into the sky. 
The clouds threatened rain. 
I had no umbrella, but a...

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It’s that time of year again
when lights are strung, wreaths are hung 
and glass balls in every color and shape dangle,
sparkling from evergreen branches
in homes, displayed in front windows
with plastic Santas, (some waving)
standing in Styrofoam snow 
for all who pass to see

Department stores are all...

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~*~
In the Living Years
nobody’s perfect we are who we are
there’s no one reason or no perfect rhyme
divided by difference in a generation of time
You see things your way and I see things another
I see the dreams and wishes of a Father and Mother,
and I’ll ...

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Every day is a fresh start, a new beginning.
We can reinvent ourselves
We can be revitalized and inspired.
We can instill hope and love in others.

Every face we make, every word we utter
Every movement of our eyes and smile
Can uplift and enthuse
We can indulge ourselves in positivity.

Each...

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    Thank God for waking up, for opening our eyes
       Another day is at hand 
       filled with opportunity
         perhaps a wedding...

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i sit in my deckchair  
lisning to the birds  and bees
i love the way the tweet and get hunny for me 
i love all animales  from the fox to the wosp 
thear is nothing than upsets me 
when im out and about...

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Some people are bored.
I am not.
Some people live the same day every day.
I don’t.
Some people never change their opinions.
I do.
Some people have not picked up a book since high school or college.
I am not one of those.
Some people do not believe in life-long learning.
I do.
Some...

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Every Day I Die.

Dark shadows cast
Over a cursing clinging damning past
I so want to move forward but the dye was cast
My hands are bound
My feet frozen hopes and dreams are dashed

Drifting aimlessly
All washed up in a turbulent sea
Lifeless
As a lonely barren tree
That once reached for...

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Why can’t it be Christmas every day
          With lights that cheer and cards that say
I love you and I hold you dear
              Why...

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Each New Year, you make a resolution,
Nothing life-changing, just some small changes.
January 1st. means a new start for
Optimist that wish themselves a better
Year ahead, vowing to improve their lot.

Little changes are often accomplished,
Insomuch as they least disrupt your life.
For-instance, eating meals at the table
Every time,...

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Continue to try harder and never cry
Despite temporary setbacks
That in your way present a face wry
Challenges aplenty in irritating stacks

Never let up
Despite sorrow and lack of glitz glow
As your happiness tap
Seems to dry up leaving you feeling drained, strained and low

Every now and then
All the...

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We've split the atom
    flown to the moon
  harness the winds
    recorded belugas who croon  

  built mighty cities
    on former sand dunes
  but from common sense
    we're still...

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