Children's Hopes and Dreams poems

All poems by Sri Chinmoy

The majority of these poems have been selected from Sri Chinmoy's poetry series Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees and Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants.

These poems are dedicated to the purity-heart's of children whose sweetness-minds are spontaneous, joyful and self-giving. May we as adults learn from their innocence, and strive to leave them with a world full of hope, promise, happiness and beauty.

Do not stop dreaming!
One day your world-peace-dream
Will inundate the entire world.


I wish to be
A perpetual student
Of the world-unity-university.


Each child
Is a new wonder.
Each child
Is a new discoverer.


To see a face of love
Is to feel a heart of peace.


Children are
True miracles.


If you do not find peace
Inside your own heart,
Then you will not find it
Anywhere else on earth.


When deep within us
There is peace, joy
Plentitude and fulfilment,
We shall not invite war.


My true friend is he who loves me
For what I inwardly am
And not for what I outwardly have.


My heart will never outgrow
Its need for friendship.


Forgive your friends,
They will love you infinitely more.


Friendship is the soil
Where happiness proudly grows.


Let it be our choice
To make a world
Where everyone
Helps each other.


Let it be
The bounden responsibility
Of all human beings
To love and help
One another.


Imagine
A world where all the birds
Are flying in a clear sky.


Let it be our solemn promise
To Mother Earth
That from now on we shall
Take very good care of her.


Imagine
You have a special role to play
In bringing about world peace.


Imagine
The beauty of an earth
Without tears.


Imagine
A world with happy
Smiling faces.


Imagine
A world where all the rain
Is pure.


If you want to remain always happy,
Then always keep inside your heart
A pocketful of sweet dreams.


Everybody
Needs encouragement.


Dreams
Keep the world
Alive.


The light of morning
Brings its illumination-rays
To the dreaming
World-children.


I was born
To do something really great
On this planet.
How can I fail?
Why should I fail?


Let it be a world
Where children can look forward
With freshness and newness,
In their lives.


Life is too short
Not to care.
Life is too short
Not to share.
Life is too short
Not to be fair.


Just give a little smile
It will enrich you
And not hurt you.


Forgive and forget
You will have everlasting peace
Within and without.


The very nature of kindness
Is to spread.
If you are kind to others,
Today they will be kind to you,
And tomorrow to somebody else.


Make friends with bright hopes
At every moment,
To change your own world
And the world around you.


Unless we break down our barriers
Of suspicion and mistrust,
A mind of peace will always remain
A far cry for us.


If you have child-like enthusiasm
Then this enthusiasm
Will put an end to your
Anxiety-mind.


Only when we have
Established peace in our
Entire being
Can there be peace
All over the world.


Peace
Is the best news.


Happiness
Is of supreme importance.
When I am really happy,
I have no time
To find fault in others.


May my joyful heart
Stretch its arms
To the farthest corners of the globe.


What is happiness?
It is something that spreads its wings
Everywhere, like a happy bird.


Every day
Greet the world
With a blossoming smile
From your heart.


Every new day
Is the blossoming
Of a new dream.


Every day
Our hearts are born
With new hopes.


A smiling child
Is the owner
Of a rainbow-heart.


Our differences disappear
The moment we come to realise
That all hearts are one.


If we can all become good citizens
Of the world,
Then the face and fate of the world
Will change overnight.


I want to be
A peace-seeker
And
Peace-lover.


Although we are all
Temporary world-residents,
We can accomplish
A good many things
For the betterment of the world.


Only the beauty and love
Of a child-like heart
Can transform the nature of the world.


A rainbow-smile from his heart
Has coloured the face
Of the entire universe.


What is the best way
To welcome the future?
Just create it.


A child's question
Can be answered in one sentence.
The same question
Asked by an adult
Requires a thesis as an answer.


Peace you get
Only by helping others
To become peaceful.


Every day set sail
On a new imagination-voyage.
Sweet, rich and profound
Will be all your new discoveries.


Do not stop smiling
If you want to become as beautiful
As a child's heart.


May my heart
Be as peaceful
As the evening sunset.


My heart strongly feels
That the new generation will claim
The aspiration-flames
Of the inner world
As its birthright.


Smiles
Strengthen
My life.


Smiling is good
For life.


Do not compare
If you want to be happy.
Do not blame
If you want to be happy.


~ Sri Chinmoy