Inspirational Poems

Poems that lift the spirit and awaken possibility.

Short poems for days that need a beginning. Courage, first light, what is still possible — a few lines, no grandstanding. Written by Pemba Umoja and free to read. One in the morning is often enough for the whole day.

• Stone in Hand
• Unsightly Stone
• Racer
• Into the Light
• See the Sea
• Beyond the Sea
• Already in Heaven
• Flight
• Sailing into Orion
• Haleakala Bound
• Diplomat of Hope
• Travel
• Hopscotch
• Dancing with Angels
• Shake
• Hurricane
• The Language of Dreamers
• The Traveling Man
• Rarotonga
• Compare?
• Floating
• My Brother
• Herself
• When a Lightning Bug Lands on Your Arm
• Climber
• Just Once
• Mountain
• Uniquely Human
• Drink of Me
• Someday
• The Mountain We Climb
• The Road to Kimony
• Triumph
• The Beat of the Tambores
• Ode to an Itinerant Soul
• Charge
• Broken Angel
• Magenta World
• Birthday
• 8 Billion Worlds
• I am
• Just Because
• A Poet’s Children