Poems about Spirituality

• I Am Not Skilled To Understand

  I am not skilled to understand
  What God hath willed, what God hath planned;

  by Dora Greenwell 21 lines, 4 comments
• Last Night As I Was Sleeping

  Last night as I was sleeping,
  I dreamt—marvelous error!—

  by Antonio Machado 30 lines, 4 comments
• The Creation

  And God stepped out on space,
  And He looked around and said,

  by James Weldon Johnson 91 lines, 7 comments
• "A Prayer"

  Let me do my work each day; and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the des

  by Max Ehrmann 14 lines, 5 comments
• Song Of Love XXIV

  I am the lover's eyes, and the spirit's
  

  by Khalil Gibran 40 lines, 6 comments
• Endless Time

  Time is endless in thy hands, my lord.
  There is none to count thy minutes.

  by Rabindranath Tagore 13 lines, 1 comment
• Absolutely Clear

  Don't surrender your loneliness
  So quickly.

  by Shams al-Din Hafiz 15 lines, 9 comments
• My Greatest Need is You

  Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
  Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word

  by Rabia al Basri 12 lines, 7 comments
• Fire

  This life that we call our own
  Is neither strong nor free;

  by Dorothea Mackellar 12 lines, 6 comments
• "In Extremis"

  Till dawn the winds' insuperable throng
  passed over like archangels in their might,

  by George Sterling 14 lines, 3 comments
• Beyond The Stars

  Three days I heard them grieve when I lay dead, 
  (It was so strange to me that they should weep!) 

  by Charles Hanson Towne 88 lines, 8 comments
• There's A Moon Inside My Body

  There's a moon in my body, but I can't see it!
  A moon and a sun.

  by Kabir 9 lines, 3 comments
• Two Kinds of Intelligence

  There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
  as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 20 lines, 4 comments
• Out Beyond Ideas

  Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
  there is a field. I'll meet you there.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 6 lines, 2 comments
• The Loves of the Angels

  'Twas when the world was in its prime,
  When the fresh stars had just begun

  by Thomas Moore 1895 lines
• Death Alone

  There are lone cemeteries,
  tombs full of soundless bones,

  by Pablo Neruda 47 lines
• Excerpt from Heer Waris Shah

  Awal hamad khuda da vird karye
  Ishq kita su jag da mool mian

  by Waris Shah 8 lines
• The Farewell

  And now it was evening.
  And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit that has spoken."

  by Khalil Gibran 155 lines, 3 comments
• Canto de Esperanza (With English Translation)

  Vultures a-wing have sullied the glory of the sky;
  The winds bear on their pinions the horror of Death's

  by Ruben Dario 57 lines, 2 comments
• Los Tres Reyes Magos (With English Translation)

  My name is Kaspar. I the incense bear.
  The glamour of the Star has made me wise.

  by Ruben Dario 35 lines
• Marriage Chapter III

  Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?"
  And he answered saying:

  by Khalil Gibran 18 lines, 1 comment
• Nami Danam...

  Nami danam chi manzil bood shab jaay ki man boodam;
  Baharsu raqs-e bismil bood shab jaay ki man boodam.

  by Amir Khusro 19 lines
• God's Garden

  God made a beatous garden
  With lovely flowers strown,

  by Robert Frost 36 lines, 1 comment
• Remember Thee! Remember Thee!

  Remember thee! remember thee!
        Till Lethe quench life's burning stream

  by Lord George Gordon Byron 11 lines, 2 comments
• Huswifery

  Make me, O Lord, Thy spinning-wheel complete.
  Thy holy word my distaff make for me.

  by Edward Taylor 19 lines, 65,535 comments
• Only Breath

  Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
  Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 14 lines, 1 comment
• The Rainy Season

  The rainy season is abroad
  And the skirt of my dress is wet.

  by Mirabai 10 lines, 1 comment
• Song Of The Flower XXIII

  I am a kind word uttered and repeated
  By the voice of Nature;

  by Khalil Gibran 41 lines, 7 comments
• Reality

  In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
  Speech is born out of longing,

  by Rabia al Basri 9 lines, 2 comments
• Fireflies

  I touch God in my song
  as the hill touches the far-away sea

  by Rabindranath Tagore 661 lines

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