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Best High On Life Poems

Below are the all-time best High On Life poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of high on life poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member I Want To Understand
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...

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Categories: high on life, confidence, confusion, high school,
Form: Free verse



Dig
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...

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Categories: high on life, abuse, addiction, age, angst,
Form: Carpe Diem
The Dream
By the time I finished highschool, my top highest dream that I wanted to accomplish before any of my other so many dreams
  ...

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Categories: high on life, age, culture, high school,
Form: Prose
Sweet Sixteen
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...

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© H.Y. Fu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: high on life, confidence, future, girl, high
Form: Free verse
Extra Credit
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...

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Categories: high on life, growing up, high school,
Form: Free verse



Summer Ended Sighs
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...

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© Nana B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: high on life, angst, august, class, high
Form: Free verse
Sat In a Corner
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...

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Categories: high on life, care, childhood, food, high
Form: Free verse
A Walk Into the Thicket
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...

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Categories: high on life, education, high school, life,
Form: I do not know?
Reflections At 47
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...

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Categories: high on life, high school, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
Every Single Day
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...

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Categories: high on life, day, high school, life,
Form: Free verse
One Regret
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...

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Categories: high on life, high school, life, military,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Beat Goes On
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...

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Categories: high on life, boyfriend, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Dust To Dust
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...

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Categories: high on life, 9th grade, high school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Don'T Know, Don'T Care
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...

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Categories: high on life, 11th grade, growing up,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things