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Best Life Span Poems

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


Premium Member Seduction In Spring - a Haiku Garland
Cherry Blossoms Bloom 
Resplendently dressed in Pink
Seducing the Spring

Glory unfolding 
They release their sweet fragrance
Pirouette and twirl

Music from the breeze 
With limbs so graceful swaying
Blushing...

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Categories: life span, appreciation, beauty, dance, flower,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member The Tiny Traveler
Adopted animals love their humans; 
show it in many ways.  
The tiniest pet, 
revels in the harmony of its time, 
with family.

Dinky was a...

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Categories: life span, animal, humor, nature, pets,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Spunky
I remember the day we met. I was just a kitten, lost in the bramble bushes crying out for someone to help me.

I had been...

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Categories: life span, cat,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Timelessness Is To Being
My past already lived,
my unknown future is the only place to travel-
beyond paradoxes or predictions,
 I could stand in a world beyond a human life...

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Categories: life span, change, future, pain, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
A Tribute To India's National Poet
Oh, my dear honorable poet!
Words recess when I write about you
 For, they start loving you

You were a sincere lover,
   when you wrote...

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Categories: life span, appreciation, tribute,
Form: Free verse



Time
TIME
Before a child comes to the world ,it ought to cry
That sound makes the bearer happy
Isn't it an irony?
what is the child trying to say?
Man...

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Categories: life span, art, beautiful, courage, grief,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Romantic Fool
I beg him for a kiss
As he heads out to the door
I’m crushed by his response
“We’re not teens anymore

It’s been twenty years
Why don’t you act...

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Categories: life span, romance,
Form: Quatrain
Victim.....Survivor
You are one cruel hearted man.
One too many for my life span.

You have inflicted one too many abuses.
I am so tired of your lousy excuses!

Whether...

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Categories: life span, recovery from...me,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Conduits
Becoming a storage facility is a necessary accomplishment,
but what I really long to become when I grow up is a conduit.

For my entire Christian life...

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Categories: life span, christian, god, sea, water,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Like Butterflies
The more I observe butterflies in our garden…the more about their beauty I’m in awe…because in every butterfly, if you look closely, you can find...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: life span, butterfly, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grief
G rief
R emorse
I s
E verybody's
F ear

No one is smiling today
As the coffin takes my son away
Grief-stricken, we stand and stare
With a hole in our hearts
That...

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Categories: life span, 10th grade,
Form: I do not know?
An Autobiography of a Banyan Tree
I am a Banyan tree,
More than hundred years old,
Near a beautiful lake I stand,
In the heart of Mother Nature.

During my life span I have seen,
Days...

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Categories: life span, imagination, nature, nature, life,
Form: Narrative
Poem From Scratch
“I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.” -Dorothy Parker
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to...

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Categories: life span, how i feel, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, 
When I was twelve and he fourteen, 
It took away his ambitions, 
To study at Oxford...

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Categories: life span, atheist, cancer, health, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Under This Red Umbrella
UNDER THIS RED UMBRELLA

The rain did not stop us romantically.
Our love was to be enjoyed.
Life span was our imagery.
We are young adults in love.
We walked...

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Categories: life span, boyfriend, girlfriend, image, metaphor,
Form: Personification

Book: Reflection on the Important Things