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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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
Being organized
Categories:
life,
Form: Monoku
Categories:
growth, introspection, life, light,
Form: Haiku
If Only You KnewI 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...
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Categories:
life, age, child, fantasy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
I am sorry, but you don't understand meI 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,...
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Categories:
life, love,
Form: Free verse
budding moon
buds begin to leaf
begging for bucolic growth ~
flora in full dress
(May Full Moon – Cree)...
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Categories:
birth, environment, life, moon,
Form: Haiku
Life may be toughLife 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...
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Categories:
emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
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
activity, being, breath, dash, energy, enthusiasm, entity, essence, existence, flesh and blood, growth, heart, human being, journey, life span, lifeblood, lifetime, liveliness, living, oomph, soul, sparkle, trials and tribulations, vigor, vitality, way of life, zest, zing,