High On Life Poems - Poems about High On Life

If your heart was a diamond, perfect and clear, glittering gleaming like a broken heart's tear, if lust was coal, dusty and black, would it make you realize you want to come back? If music was woven with golden...Read the rest...

I swear, my parents act like they were never teens in a pandemic growing up. I was watching “Perry Mason,” an HBO show set in the 1930s. Perry gets mail out of his mailbox and I...Read the rest...

I wanted to fly and be a fighter pilot From my youngest age Shooting enemy Soviet planes down Before they could nuke us The sky called to me A lofty cavern of air and clouds But my dream was just a...Read the rest...

Every day I walk with people. Maybe not side by side, Maybe not in the same stride, But we are walking step by step. Together. To reach To find Our own stars In our own time. We all speak to each other Every single day. Either...Read the rest...

What do you want out of Life? The question seemed simple enough. But not only had I never thought about it, I didn’t understand it. I really didn’t. We’d always been poor and taught to never ask for anything. Why raise expectations only...Read the rest...

He was eager to have friends. He was glad to see us. He was ready to show off his bunk-beds. He was 4. He was arrogant. He was not afraid to tell the teacher He was going to marry me...Read the rest...

I’m huddled up in my usual spot outside Cold as a dog’s nose On the old park bench, eating air pies Drinking crushed sun, watching for a sign Counting days, waiting for rain There are signs everywhere, the crowd In every...Read the rest...

6:23 PM Clock ticks ticks ticking Hunched back and sprawled all over I get this feeling Fingers taps taps clicking Pen taps in repetition I hate this feeling I stared at the calendar And scorned at the squeaking birds outside As well...Read the rest...

We are young Love to sing the red maple’s sorrow Love to ask why people are so busy Love teasing merchants as they crazily whooped Sometimes we see sparrow’s head overturned We will laugh all day long Life is dancing...Read the rest...

I walk into such thicket for such answers Life purpose For hope of learning nature’s charms To find life purpose For those days I lay dying I hope to not discover—not living I not want this life to live Not to give...Read the rest...

By the time I finished highschool, my top highest dream that I wanted to accomplish before any of my other so many dreams Was ...Read the rest...

Numbers and letters on Excel Determine how I excel Teacher plays wizard Competition rises Prize of apples, robes, cars Blood thirsty blood hounds On a chase Or a race Bye, childhood Friendliness no longer exists I’m a monster New goals Apples, robes, cars Sweat, blood, tears What is chivalry? Camaraderie? It’s...Read the rest...

Broken,beaten,blind and lost All but a spark of hope left to keep warm But dig and claw on bruised muscles, on broken limbs Until the light day fills your sight Left blinded no more Dig Until the soft fresh air blows...Read the rest...

I never saw myself as an old man Never thought two-thousand would come either I lived my life not on any one plan Sweated through high school without a breather I haven’t the mobility to run though at times I...Read the rest...