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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 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
Premium Member Being organized
A person's mind is just as cluttered as their home...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Monoku
Moved
As close as A porch swing hanging After rain....Read the rest...
Categories: growth, introspection, life, light,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member If Only You Knew
I was lying in bed, unable to sleep, Thinking of troubles I'd seen in life, so deep. If I could give counsel to the younger Dave, From so many disasters, him I could still save. Somewhere, in bed, many...Read the rest...
Categories: life, age, child, fantasy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
I am sorry, but you don't understand me
I am sorry, but you don’t understand me Ladies, I am sorry. I apologize for my behavior But that is correct. I needed you. Loved you. Be my muse and mentor and my life is yours. Gone Understand me,...Read the rest...
Categories: life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member budding moon
buds begin to leaf begging for bucolic growth ~ flora in full dress (May Full Moon – Cree)...Read the rest...
Categories: birth, environment, life, moon,
Form: Haiku
Life may be tough
Life may be tough but stay strong. Even though things may go wrong. Your dreams may take so long. And you can't help yourself but feel sad all day long. Don't despair in life's challenges. Never forget to wear a...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Life Poems

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Definition | What is Life in Poetry?


Book: Reflection on the Important Things