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Life Poems | Poems About Life's Journey, Struggle, and Fun

Life Poems. Read and share beautiful poems about life’s experiences, struggles, fun, adventure, and journey. Life poetry conveys a point in time that has had an impact on us. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of life poems.
Premium Member Look Closely
"Double Rictameter" look close ...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Rictameter



I am open
I am open to you, just I don’t know where you are, but I feel you, and you feel my heart, oh dear love I am waiting for you always, in my heart, in my life,...Read the rest...
Categories: life, love,
Form: Free verse
Four Corners of Life
I dreamt I saw an angel just outside my window pane; I could see her glowing face through the lightly falling rain. I jumped up from my warm bed ...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Rhyme
Family
Family is like Your emergency flash light They lights and guides you....Read the rest...
Categories: family, life, light, love,
Form: Haiku
Anything Veggies
Vegetable is life Anything leafy, greens, chunks Very nutritious....Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, engagement, food, life,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member It will always go on
Life may cease for you life may cease for me but it will always go on without you without me...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don't blink
When you blink you can miss so much...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Relax You Say
Relax you say , perhaps easier said than done Time to lot down your hair and go out and have some fun Stress and tenssion team up to wage war on all of us This dynamic duo is...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Life
A weight of stress, anger and anxiety forms and I feel the world caving I have people around me but no one is there for my saving Yet just one person to talk to about all...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Folly of Gods
What grand overture preceeds death When the past is prologue to life What omnipotent power's breath Gives life to our struggle and strife Ask who will come to our defense As we battle against the odds What will sustain...Read the rest...
Categories: death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Changes
If you change anything , what would it be Would you quit your job just to set yourself free Maybe you would become like the weather , which surely changes alot Perhaps unload your bank account , almost...Read the rest...
Categories: change, life,
Form: Rhyme
To Butterfly
To Butterfly Oh my love, my diamond, a honeymoon in the sky You magnetized me, but pushed me away. . . Why? My heart is sad, painful feeling, rules me sadness Sadness and demonic cemetery feeling graveyard I walked there...Read the rest...
Categories: life, love,
Form: Free verse
To Honyfly
Walk in the cemetery (Butterfly is Honeyfly or Wasp?) Honeyfly, do you know how my times I walked in that cemetery? I found a lot of interesting things there. The dead...Read the rest...
Categories: life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abracadabra
The secret of life comes at a price Some days are naughty and some days are nice Like a magician wielding illusion Can add to the sense of daily confusion It softens the strain when...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How To Poop On Your Own Poem
Touching on the silver glow. When you touch it, You'll know it. It's designed to keep You running back. This Spiritual snack. Keeping you open for attack, As you sink back into the World, askew and absconded, Trying to conjure Between worried wait: The Science of...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Life Poems

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Definition | What is Life in Poetry?


Book: Reflection on the Important Things