Meaningful Poems - Page 4

61. Holidays

Famous Poem

• By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;--

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62. If This Day Is My Last

• By Glen Edward C. Flores
• Published by Family Friend Poems April 2015 with permission of the Author.

If this day is my last,
I will be rejoicing,
Reminiscing my memories since my life came to being.
I will spend this day only by praying

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63. The Hero Of Your Life

• By Kirsten Robinson
• Published by Family Friend Poems June 2021 with permission of the Author.

You are the only one
who can save you
no one else can
do it for you

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64. The Present

• By Nicki F. Gunderson
• Published by Family Friend Poems November 2016 with permission of the Author.

The future is too far away to dream of.
The past is too far behind to dwell on.
The world is too big to go unnoticed.
Nature is too beautiful to be passed by.

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65. Ozymandias

Famous Poem

• By Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown

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66. Deja Vu

• By Marcia A. Newton
• Published by Family Friend Poems February 10, 2025 with permission of the Author.

I can't be certain, but I believe we have met before.
There's an eerie connection between us; of this I'm very sure.
You seem so familiar like our paths have crossed somehow.
I wonder maybe in a dream or a memory long past now.

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67. Life

Famous Poem

• By Henry Van Dyke

Let me but live my life from year to year,
With forward face and unreluctant soul;
Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal;
Not mourning for the things that disappear

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68. It's About The Journey

• By Lauren Bowman
• Published by Family Friend Poems February 2021 with permission of the Author.

How about sad but hopeful.
Lonely but looking inward.
Resting but planning your next step.

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69. It's The Simple Things

• By Gemma Troy
• Published by Family Friend Poems February 2021 with permission of the Author.

It’s the simple things
that bring me joy
it’s being with you
that fills my soul

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70. Life Is Worth A Try

• By E. Rob Turner
• Published by Family Friend Poems September 2016 with permission of the Author.

Along this huge labyrinth
That we call life,
You will face great trials,
Adversity, and strife.

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71. The Red Line

• By Judd L. Strom
• Published by Family Friend Poems February 2006 with permission of the Author.

He danced as a buck,
sang as an elder and
beat a drum as long as he was able.

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72. Spoken From Ruins

• By Allen B. McGinnis
• Published by Family Friend Poems April 4, 2026 with permission of the Author.

They took her light,

left her hollowed,
or so they thought.

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73. Two Hundred Thirty-Three

• By Tanya Markul
• Published by Family Friend Poems January 2021 with permission of the Author.

When you stop trying
to fit into a world
that you don’t belong to anymore,
you grow

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