Reflective Poems

Poems that invite you to pause and look inward.

Poems that look inward: memory, loss, what is left of a day. Read slowly, twice if you can. Written by Pemba Umoja and free to read. Some lines are short enough to remember and deep enough to stay.

• A Bench in the Sun
• In Deep Water
• Seat by the Sea
• Stone in Hand
• Unsightly Stone
• Home
• The Invisible Man
• Trees Within
• Ripples
• Already in Heaven
• Unfinished
• Bill
• Woman with Red Handkerchief
• A Moment Longer
• A Moment More
• Memories of You
• Volubilis
• Hurricane
• Real Time
• The Traveling Man
• Grampa
• Cold as Gold
• Currency
• Caught in a Cloud
• Together Drank
• The Hourglass
• Compare?
• Hot Water Beach
• A Necklace for Zawadi
• My Brother
• Whispering Waves
• Climber
• Just Once
• Mountain
• Pelican Coast
• You Are My Mountain
• Swallow
• Starlight
• Love
• Seeing Everything
• City Stew
• When
• Green Leaves
• Questions
• Sail On
• Uniquely Human
• It
• Wind
• Thoughts of Her
• Drink of Me
• Someday
• Knots
• Celestial Road
• Dear Mom
• The Mountain We Climb
• Dad
• An Instant
• Mussel Shell
• Sleepy Old Town
• Grandiosity
• Restless Soul
• Tiptoe
• Abundance
• Three Fell
• Slow
• Love Is the Answer
• The Winner
• Solstice
• Is
• A Home
• This is Life
• Goal of One
• A Path within Colique Cane
• Hidden Valley
• Autumn in Komazawa Park
• Deer
• Lago Frío
• Lobos on the Playa de Bikini
• Posta de Cangrejo
• Colonia at Dusk
• I am an Earthling
• Broken Angel
• Welcome Home
• Emerald Lake
• Myself Again
• Mother
• Birthday
• 8 Billion Worlds
• I am
• Scents
• Whisper
• Grandfather Tree
• Just Because
• Travelers
• The Man on the Beach
• Ferry
• Closing
• Night of the Strawberry Moon
• moon
• Hero Rises
• Worlds Away
• Raindrops
• A Poet’s Children
• Star Battle
• My Wealth Sleeps Before Me
• The Judge
• Bullet from Years Past
• Dance of the Wind
• Still Blue