Best Life Is What You Make It Poems
Below are the all-time best Life Is What You Make It poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of life is what you make it poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
life is what you make it, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
When I Stop and PrayWhen the storm clouds boil around me,
And the lightning splits the sky--.
When the howling wind assails me,
And life's sea is rolling high--
When my...
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life is what you make it, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form:
Lyric
Disposable WisdomEach day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?
Pride...
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life is what you make it, age, cat, endurance, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Forgotten Heroes of the SommeOver the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...
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life is what you make it, brother, death, history, life,
Form:
Rhyme
TranquilityOh little one, how soon you'll be
In turbulence of puberty.
I will hold tight your days of youth
And share with you my honest truth
That...
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life is what you make it, children, god, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form:
Couplet
Death of the Poet Destroyer~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~
Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...
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Categories:
life is what you make it, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form:
Ballad
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
life is what you make it, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...
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Categories:
life is what you make it, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Categories:
life is what you make it, i love you, life,
Form:
Shape
When Madness Rides On MoonlightDays pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...
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Categories:
life is what you make it, god, life,
Form:
Sestina
The Squirrel~My Nutty Squirrel Poem~
Up in a tree, on a branch
Now you see me, now you don't!
Sneaky and fast, I'm adorable
Now, why would you hunt or...
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Categories:
life is what you make it, adventure, animal, beautiful, blessing,
Form:
Ballad
Its a Part of MeOur lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...
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Categories:
life is what you make it, emotions, introspection, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The View From a WindowA view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted...
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Categories:
life is what you make it, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Within Reason- Maurice Yvonne and Seren RobertsWithin reason
lies a house full of ordinary
a chest of bland memories.
...
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Categories:
life is what you make it, life,
Form:
Verse
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...
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Categories:
life is what you make it, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse