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

Things mostly happen in opposite, It often takes noise, to appreciate silence, Pains and heartbreak to understand love, Absence to value presence... And sadness is require to know what happiness truly is. Such is the irony of life The soul is...Read the rest...

Love is for love. Love to love. Love of love Why love? Is love a question? Oh sad love No, love isn’t a question, but a crime of Love Oh, my suffering is your love, my death is...Read the rest...

It seemed like mistakes took away my sails I felt worthless, overlooked, and destined to fail Life is what you make of it, a fortune cookie reads Just another analogy overlooked, indeed. To tangle...Read the rest...

Abandoned on the road of distant sorrow mile markers bloody from the vagrants it has claimed All names inscribed with crimson warnings on devil written eulogies Their cries entombed within an eastern wind — that blows away the dawn (The Devil’s Highway (666): June, 2002) ...Read the rest...

We go and come We come again and go again ...a ring Like water that ascends ...to return as rain ...to smoke up again... A circle An order My ancestors are back Staring into my soul Through the eyeballs Of...Read the rest...

("Eye of Storm", original encaustic, 2017) Epiphany I’ve had two major epiphanies in my life, And I figure three is all we really get. So far they are following a pattern Of thesis/antithesis So I assume the third will be some...Read the rest...

Wicked Love And Clean Desire Cruel and dirty desires, blackened love, broken life You aren’t my life, I am a skilled guy, unclean our love Please, shut me, up and call your gangsters, clear my life Clean up my life,...Read the rest...

Calcium carbonate, crystalline complexion composed Smooth surface, size, shape, color, and luster superimposed Born from marine oysters, through bacterial resistance Rancor becomes miraculously pristine radiance. Loyalty, honesty, integrity, and purity Soft yet solid, there's, in it, an inner serenity. Does it...Read the rest...

Are you happy? Doing what you love? Working around the rules?...Read the rest...

We can sit and question how everything is this way We can understand, yet feel powerless every day We can rant and rave and vent of such things wrong But, we must not forget, the strength in ...Read the rest...

Alone… would I be wrong to call myself a fool? Knowing full well, alone one never is? Better, much better to say ‘Alone from’. Alone from friends, from loved ones From employment, joy and/or satisfactions. Even then… perhaps not? Maybe instead we...Read the rest...

Life issues out many difficult trials For in each problem we face, lies a lesson In overcoming, we discover our smiles Accepting what can't change, our stress lessens We're born like a jagged diamond out of style Through storms and...Read the rest...

Keep on dancing, yeah Dancing for the night away Party for a day....Read the rest...

Loneliness can kill Suicide rate is in rising Help to cope yourself....Read the rest...

Sweets, wines and pastry Bakeshop, artisan cafe My life's savory. ...Read the rest...