Best Life Changing Poems

Her heart has just said that
It has found the one
That it wants to settle with.
So in anticipation of the day
She will have to hang about
In a life that she would
To a certain extent do without.

For the existence that she previously knew
And dipped her toes into...

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>It started with a lump you see
By Stanley Russell Harris
(A poetry Soup Honourable Mentioned Poet)
(The New mad Author)

It started with a lump you see.
As I was old, I just thought it part of me.
You know as old age goes.
Middle age spread!  Begins to show!
Of...

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One early morning in July,
        a child was born and with one cry,
                my future changed.
My life had a new purpose and meaning,
...

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I recall when my father died
The weeping willows cried
Sunflowers hid their face
Morning birds sang "Amazing Grace
That night the moon was blue
He sobbed a heavy dew
Frogs and crickets, respectfully silent
While his world mourned in private

He had been a steward of the land
Turning the soil by hand
Fished...

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A Life Changing Misdial

One of my favorite poems is Robert Frost’s “Road Not Taken”, which I read for the first time in high school.  I read it again just moments ago, and I was reminded of a similar experience that happened to me many...

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It used to be responsibility 
was something Beth had wriggled from until
she dreamt, yet chose not to reveal, the prophecy
that blessed her life and gave her newfound will.

No longer was her life monotonous,
for not a moment did she waste of it.
And there was not a...

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Life changing
verdicts in
The shower.

Proposal,
on knees in
The shower.

Conception,
first child in
The shower.

By: Sabina...

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A flasher in jail voiced his fear
I can't handle this place it is clear
Myself I'll amaze
By changing my ways
But I'll stick it out one more year!...

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I can't explain just how  
I feel. 
  I know my heart will never 
Heal. 

  If you could see what I  
See. 
  What just could never 
Be. 

  I was a part of a  
Whole. 
...

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Bert loved his garden
Full of shrubs and flowers
His garden was his life
He worked in it for hours

Until one day in winter
There was torrential rain
Wind, thunder and lightning
Caused poor Bert to complain

He looked out to his garden
A big part of his life
It always gave him pleasure
Now...

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All you need to know is that things change
But it isnt just things that do it, its everything
No matter the size or depth normal becomes strange
And its always for the better and worst despite hoping

In our reality there is no black and white anymore
There is...

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I flew to Israel at age 22
 Ten days after graduating college
  Knew what I didn't want to do in life
   Didn't know what I wanted to do

Got off the plane
 Looked at the signs
  All in Hebrew!
   Kosher...

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There is a bottom that is past what we thought we knew.
The sub-floors are there for false safety and reason, too.
When we get to the dirt under all the lies
and find the reasons we want to stay alive,
we are prepared to give it up and...

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Death, where are you

01/05/2018



Battered and broken, body a crumpled and crushed mess,
Lifeless on cold concrete, near death, in distress.
Motorbike versus truck, who won? Well you can guess.
                  ...

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A song is a poem that seized its opportunity to fly
A dance is a close-lipped soliloquy narrated by vigor
A story is a word with blazing sentiments that can't die
Every mastery is a tenacious failure

A laugh is a smile learning to be an extrovert
A noise is...

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