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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.
I won't be your mind
I needed to be your mind. Your mind and your heart. Because you are alone, and need a love I needed you and your hand, in my life. But we live in different ways, and you...Read the rest...
Categories: life, love,
Form: Rhyme



On a Train None Knows Whither
In the sunset eve of my life A recurring thought plagues my mind: How can I like a parting soul, Discard one day and leave behind My shame, as shoes put off in porch, Prejudice, pain like clothes worn out, And...Read the rest...
Categories: death, life,
Form: Free verse
Oak Creek Canyon Echo
I want to write dirty and convoluted, connected and wet And in the mess of my words Feel the stain run down Over the nice clean ordered objective, detached From the structure you claim to know about I want...Read the rest...
Categories: death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Versus Hate
A battle that rages in our world every day is love versus hate Which side you choose to be on I think will ultimately determine your fate Hate stokes the fire of stress ,which rakes havoc on...Read the rest...
Categories: hate, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
If You Only Knew
hexastich with rhyme I drink my coffee standing on alert knowing that my tasks move this chunk of dirt on its axis... my world, my family. Of necessity, I grab each moment attacking life with God, at faith's expense wringing out...Read the rest...
Categories: life, 11th grade, anxiety, faith,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member toilet roll
Life is like ...Read the rest...
Categories: life, allegory, allusion, color, cute,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Pounding rainstorm
Everyone needs an Awakening once in awhile in life to keep them on their toes...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Mirrors
Reflection of ourselves to see into our own souls through our own eyes...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member If only
I had wings to fly life could be lived easily soaring with such ease...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Senryu
Lucy’s Nervous Run
Lucy's running nerves made her stew Race time, her legs stuck like thick glue When would be her time Now a hard stool crime Why did she always have to poo! He watched as she...Read the rest...
Categories: life, animal, anxiety, child, emotions,
Form: Limerick
To my Satan
To my Satan Thank you for everything, thank you, my Master, my guardian angel, oh Satan Thank you for saving my life, thank you for your knowing, I get that for science Science, a living science, my new...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Free verse
Time will tell What time it is
Born alone, die alone, time is so, I don't know slow than fast, blowing past, grown attached, to life alone Idle time, The devil's ground, mess around, and find a zone A mile wide, and getting out,...Read the rest...
Categories: encouraging, life, magic, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Sorrow bird
The sorrow bird Sings to no living thing But the rain. It Shakes its wet wings So one day it might fly Away to a new perch So lovely and dry ...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, bird, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Plain Affected
The forest around her story damning the plains— The littlest girl seen by the wind through the plains. Green honey passes just by a bee's swirling wings; The gold smoothed by her heart; fingers reading the plains. The likelihood...Read the rest...
Categories: life, angst, future, goodbye, introspection,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Time for yourself
You need to give yourself time before you bring yourself out...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Monoku

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