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
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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...
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Categories:
life, love,
Form: Rhyme
On a Train None Knows WhitherIn 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...
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Categories:
death, life,
Form: Free verse
Oak Creek Canyon EchoI 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...
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Categories:
death, life,
Form: Free verse
Love Versus HateA 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...
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Categories:
hate, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
If You Only Knewhexastich 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...
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Categories:
life, 11th grade, anxiety, faith,
Form: Rhyme
toilet roll
Categories:
life, allegory, allusion, color, cute,
Form: Monoku
Pounding rainstormEveryone needs an Awakening once in awhile in life to keep them on their toes...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Monoku
MirrorsReflection of ourselves to see into our own souls through our own eyes...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Monoku
If onlyI had wings to fly
life could be lived easily
soaring with such ease...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Senryu
Lucy’s Nervous RunLucy'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...
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Categories:
life, animal, anxiety, child, emotions,
Form: Limerick
To my SatanTo 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...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Free verse
Time will tell What time it isBorn 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,...
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Categories:
encouraging, life, magic, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Sorrow birdThe 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
...
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Categories:
animal, bird, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Plain AffectedThe 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...
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Categories:
life, angst, future, goodbye, introspection,
Form: Ghazal
Time for yourself
Categories:
life,
Form: Monoku
Specific Types of Life Poems
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adventure, carpe diem, courage, depression, education, family, funny, future, happy, heartbreak, introspection, journey, love, paradise, rhyme,
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Definition | What is Life in Poetry?
Poems Related to Life
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