Poetry About The Future

The future is a land we all travel to at the rate of sixty minutes an hour. It is a canvas of dreams and a fog of uncertainty. These poems explore our relationship with time yet to come - the utopias we build in our minds, the anxieties that keep us awake, and the hope that drives us forward.

From sci-fi visions of stars and steel to the quiet promise of a seedling planted today, this collection asks what we owe to the future and what the future holds for us. It is a tribute to the tomorrow that is always arriving.

Featured Poems

Time Capsule

Sending a message to a world we won't see.

We bury our present in a metal box: a newspaper, a toy, a photograph of a smile.

Seeds planted in the dark soil of time, hoping that when you dig them up, you will understand that we were real, and that we dreamed of you.

- Nova S.

The Architect

Building the world of tomorrow.

The city rises in my mind first, spires of glass touching the clouds, trains riding beams of light. I draw the lines today so you can walk the streets tomorrow.

- Ray Bradbury (Homage)

Anxiety's Crystal Ball

The shadow side of looking forward.

I stare into the mist and see only monsters. What if the bridge falls? What if the fire goes out? I spend my today mourning a tomorrow that has not yet died.

- Lina Fears

Classic Voices

Locksley Hall (Excerpt)

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1842)

A visionary poem predicting the rise of civil aviation and a future world federation.

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;

Song of the Open Road

by Walt Whitman (1856)

Celebrating the journey into the unknown future.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.

Micro Verses

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Abraham Lincoln

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.

- Brad Paisley

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Study the past if you would define the future.

- Confucius

Deeper Explorations

Hope

The light at the end of the tunnel.

Sunrise

No matter how dark the night, the sun never fails to keep its appointment with the morning.

- Dawn W.

Legacy

What we leave behind.

Planting Trees

The wise man plants trees under whose shade he knows he shall never sit.

- Greek Proverb Adaptation

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