Poems About New Beginnings (To Stay Highly Motivated)

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Poems About New Beginnings

Every single one of us experiences new beginnings throughout our lifetimes. A chance for a new beginning is a fresh start.

Graduation may be one of the first milestones in life, but there are many others, like getting married, having kids, changing jobs, retiring, and the list could go on forever.

These poems about new beginnings are for you if you’re seeking the best collection of poems about new beginnings.

1. For a New Beginning by John O’Donahue

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,

Where your thoughts never think to wander,

This beginning has been quietly forming,

Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,

Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,

Noticing how you willed yourself on,

Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety

And the gray promises that sameness whispered,

Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,

Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,

And out you stepped onto new ground,

Your eyes young again with energy and dream,

A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear

You can trust the promise of this opening;

Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning

That is at one with your life’s desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;

Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;

Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,

For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

2. New Life, New Love by Henry Lawson

The breezes blow on the river below,

And the fleecy clouds float high,

And I mark how the dark green gum trees match

The bright blue dome of the sky.

The rain has been, and the grass is green

Where the slopes were bare and brown,

And I see the things that I used to see

In the days ere my head went down.

I have found a light in my long dark night,

Brighter than stars or moon;

I have lost the fear of the sunset drear,

And the sadness of afternoon.

Here let us stand while I hold your hand,

Where the light’s on your golden head —

Oh! I feel the thrill that I used to feel

In the days ere my heart was dead.

The storm’s gone by, but my lips are dry

And the old wrong rankles yet —

Sweetheart or wife, I must take new life

From your red lips warm and wet!

So let it be, you may cling to me,

There is nothing on earth to dread,

For I’ll be the man that I used to be

In the days ere my heart was dead!

3. Burning the Old Year by Naomi Shihab Nye

Letters swallow themselves in seconds.

Notes friends tied to the doorknob,

transparent scarlet paper,

sizzle like moth wings,

marry the air.

So much of any year is flammable,

lists of vegetables, partial poems.

Orange swirling flame of days,

so little is a stone.

Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,

an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.

I begin again with the smallest numbers.

Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,

only the things I didn’t do

crackle after the blazing dies.

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4. Starting Over by David Harris

Within every life there comes a time

when you need to take a break,

to start something new.

A point at when your life seems stale

and starting over is the only thing to do.

Not everyone wants to do it,

in fact most refuse to try.

They idle away each day,

not realising they need to do something new.

The world passes by them

as they stand at the garden gate

and before they know it

starting over for them is too late.

Therefore, if you need to get out of a rut

before it is too late,

start looking for something new

to enhance your life with beauty,

which you have forgotten what it was like.

Starting over can make you a new person,

sometimes even better than before.

5. Morning on Shinnecock by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks

The rising sun had crowned the hills,

And added beauty to the plain;

O grand and wondrous spectacle!

That only nature could explain.

I stood within a leafy grove,

And gazed around in blissful awe;

The sky appeared one mass of blue,

That seemed to spread from sea to shore.

Far as the human eye could see,

Were stretched the fields of waving corn.

Soft on my ear the warbling birds

Were heralding the birth of morn.

While here and there a cottage quaint

Seemed to repose in quiet ease

Amid the trees, whose leaflets waved

And fluttered in the passing breeze.

O morning hour! so dear thy joy,

And how I longed for thee to last;

But e’en thy fading into day

Brought me an echo of the past.

‘Twas this,—how fair my life began;

How pleasant was its hour of dawn;

But, merging into sorrow’s day,

Then beauty faded with the morn.

6. The New Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I thought my heart was death chilled,

I thought its fires were cold;

But the new love, the new love,

It warmeth like the old.

I thought its rooms were shadowed

With the gloom of endless night;

But the new love, the new love,

It fills them full of light.

I thought the chambers empty,

And proclaimed it unto men;

But the new love, the new love,

It peoples them again.

I thought its halls were silent,

And hushed the whole day long;

But the new love, the new love,

It fills them full of song.

Then here is to the new love,

Let who will sing the old;

The new love, the new love,

‘Tis more than fame or gold.

For it gives us joy for sorrow,

And it gives us warmth for cold;

Oh! the new love, the new love,

‘Tis better than the old.

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7. The World That Awaits by Julie Hebert

The sun is shining,

On this amazing day,

Of new beginnings,

And farewells to say.

Our new road is paved,

With a new path in sight.

It’s time to take it,

It feels quite right.

We will say farewell,

To all we’ve known.

The knowledge we will take with us

And no longer be attending class.

It’s time to explore,

The world that awaits.

Allow yourself to,

Embrace your fate.

8. A Birthday by Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird

Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;

My heart is like an apple-tree

Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;

My heart is like a rainbow shell

That paddles in a halcyon sea;

My heart is gladder than all these

Because my love is come to me …

9. May Night by Sarah Teasdale

The spring is fresh and fearless

And every leaf is new,

The world is brimmed with moonlight,

The lilac brimmed with dew.

Here in the moving shadows

I catch my breath and sing,

My heart is fresh and fearless

And over-brimmed with spring.

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10. When I Rise Up by Georgia Douglas Johnson

When I rise up above the earth,

And look down on the things that fetter me,

I beat my wings upon the air,

Or tranquil lie,

Surge after surge of potent strength

Like incense comes to me

When I rise up above the earth

And look down upon the things that fetter me.

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