Uplifting Poems | Examples

Premium Member Our Claim To Fame

What is our claim to fame,
maybe money, things, toys or a great career?
Money can be good then fought over when we die.
Things come and go,
making us happy and sad.
Toys like a new car,
did we really need it?
A great career,
to tell the world what?
I am someone.
Am I working myself to death but why? 
Our claim to fame has a price,
how much are we willing to pay?
It would be better if we could say,
“death approaches but we have no regret ~
when God questions us, we will stand erect”
I am a simple person wanting God's favor over me.

Premium Member To new beginnings

Wipe the slate clean ~ dare start anew

Premium Member Don’t underestimate your power

Ask and you shall receive
visualize your fate and make it happen
~ the universe is your ally



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025


Like It Or Not, This Is The Best

How far gone is my soul and mind,
That coming back seems impossible?
My hands ache to be guided by your prompt,
Yet hours of blankness dull my bluntness.

But I can still etch out classics,
If brilliant minds will rub with mine.
My pen waits close, surreptitiously listening,
To gather in ink the wisdom you proffer,
For my momentary moments of madness.

The top ten will never be my goal,
But that one top spot that crowns the race.
A trophy beside my poem will render it more comely—
Not just this week, but at the marathon’s end,
For this is no sprint that halts at a hundred.

Yet the nearest mile I first must conquer,
Before the next, and all the miles ahead.
Though my fingers ache as though racing in fear,
No shadow of doubt will bow me to defeat.

Oh mine! Oh mine! I see it now—
A wonder folded deep in my words.
I’ve penned a masterpiece for the summit,
No judge can dismiss its rightful claim.

If none are near to ring my bell,
I’ll strike it loud with resounding voice.
I am no gentleman in this contest,
But a rival running the race to win.
Half the course gone—my pace surges higher.
Like it or not, this is the best.

Premium Member Forgiveness What Can One Do?

F=Forgiveness is for,
O=Others to be given then to,
R=Receive.
G=God forgives me,
I=I must forgive them and I do.
V=Voice for,
E=Everyone to hear.
N=Never holding back,
E=Energy of love from me to you.
E=Except my words and,
S=See we still can be friends ~ Hooray.

Premium Member September Where Have You Been? SS

September where have you been?
The June days burnt my smooth skin,
in July it was hot and I needed extra sun screen. 
August was fun pool time with us all-in.
Finally lovely September to break-in,
with many wonderful holidays to begin.


Premium Member RAISED AND SQUARED WITH GOD

RAISED AND SQUARED WITH GOD

Lying parallel,
Pleased and thankful for today:-
Perpendicular:
Squaring my service to God,
With love labors to others:-

A Poet Is Humanity

Artist Versus Entertainers

Philosophically well educated
Obfuscation methods in placement
Evolution from their predecessors
Thought induction with language

Interpretation may vary
Subjective and misinterpretation

Hopeful to make changes
Unleashing words as weapons
Mental landscape vivisection
Anomaly amongst the lilies
Nature appointed tether
Ideological meaning hidden 
Thunder before the rain
Yugen laced Ya'aburnee

Premium Member High on adrenaline

Westerly wind in my sails
soaring a kite in the open sky
~ I stretch touching the sun



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

Premium Member Perhaps We Should Have

P=Perhaps we should have.
E=Ears for hearing, so listen more.
R=Reading time for a good poem to start each day.
H=Heart, show love along our way.
A=Applause for others and say thank you.
P=Praise as we are blessed.
S=Smiles to give away and make someone's day.

Premium Member More Pumpkins are Better

Pumpkins are made
For pies
 
And pies are made
For jack-o-lanterns
To
Please little girls
Who ride swings high over the city on
Cold
Mornings when others
Have found the schoolhouse
Under the ghetto waiting to transform the little leftovers
Into Wallstreetbogeymen scaring the country into
Unwanted
Growth claiming ‘More Pumpkins Are Better.’
 
The swing's chains are cold in late October
The seat can be wet
She


In her own glory does
Not
Notice the silence. Dreaming of
Dancing at the Met exposing truth to the music of Mendelssohn.
 
We linger
On the damp cool October morn
She peruses the skyline looking for the
Spot she might run to
As the swing finds a higher plane.

Premium Member Young at heart

Put on a silly face
stay a while to laugh and giggle
~ age is an arbitrary number



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 1st place 2025

Premium Member Peace at a moment's notice

Slow your breath to calm
pause stop relax to still your mind
conjure your dream vacation place



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Premium Member Life

Living every moment 
Listening to nature
Laughing when feeling joy
Learning a life lesson
Lifting up the weary
Limiting our mistakes
Loving our Creator

Premium Member GEESE a Mother Nature teaches poem Reposting

Mother Nature Teaches              
                 via
               Geese
   m  i  g  r   a   t  i  t  i  n  g
              once again
                intuitively
                   know
               One = All
              weak + well
                vital      vigor
              flight         soaring
             long             with             
         wings                  kept           
  tip-to-tip                      support 
    uplift                             motion
onward                                for All

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Definition | What is Uplifting in Poetry?

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