Motivational Poems About Life

Life Owes Me Nothing

Life owes me nothing. let the years
Bring couldes or azure, joy or tears;
Already a full cup I've quaffed;
Already wept and loved and laughed,
And seen, in ever-endless ways,
New beauties overwhelm the days.

Life owes me nought. No pain that waits
Can steal the wealth from memory's gates;
No aftermath of anguish slow
Can quench the soul fire's early glow.
I breathe, exulting, each new breath,
Embracing Life, ignoring Death.

Life owes me nothing. One clear morn
Is boon enough for being born;
And be it ninety years or ten,
No need for me to question when.
While Life is mine, I'll find it good,
And greet each hour with gratitude.

Author Unknown

Explanation

I hate to be a kicker,
I always long for peace,
But the wheel that does the squeaking,
Is the one that gets the grease.

Josh Billings

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
Adn on the strangest sea;
Yes, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickerson

The Ocean of Life

Ships that pass in the night, and speak
to each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant
voice in the darkness
so in the ocean of life we pass and
speak to one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness
again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow