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
I Want To UnderstandWhat 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
DigBroken,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 DreamBy 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 SixteenWe 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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Categories:
high on life, confidence, future, girl, high
Form:
Free verse
Extra CreditNumbers 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 Sighs6:23 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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Categories:
high on life, angst, august, class, high
Form:
Free verse
Sat In a CornerI’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 ThicketI 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 47I 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 DayEvery 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 RegretI 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
The Beat Goes OnHe 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 DustIf 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
Don'T Know, Don'T CareI 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