Best Love And Life Poems
In realm of love when passions stirred
Song of romance fervent hearts heard
In tenor we knew, rhythms that woo,
Strummed by music our desires spurred.
Oh! how that realm blooms love so true
As tunes of warmth birds sing for you,
From woods that sway as soft winds blow
When moon scripts clues on skyline blue;
Of dreamy night that gleamed with glow,
Of stars that waltzed to stage our show,
When we vowed beneath lambent skies,
Sprouts of love~~ shall forever grow;
While glance of joy thrills cheery eyes
Where love-flame kindles, never dies,
And dreams cherished, long to revive,
Nights we rejoice, snug in love's prize.
On life’s hurdled streets where we drive
From wheels of hope strength we derive
While we climb steep high ways of life,
Hand in hand, we steer fate and thrive.
June 1, 2022
Placed 1st: Rubaiyat Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Sotto Poet
Eight syllables per line (HMS.com)
Rhyme: aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dded, eefe
Life, you're a little more long tonight
a blast through a soft fleeting light
too fast, too soon, gone out sight
Love, you're a little forlorn tonight
a chill, but still, grasping for light
once tight, but now shaken with fright
Forefather's warm these strains
unburden me of my visceral pain
dare to make life, alive again
our days are now numbered
as we creep into the years
we are raging into the future
yet we haven't found the wheel to steer
concentrate we must
for this world is cold
prevailing are the ones
that shall stand up so bold
when you die , if your name
is not carved in stone
the only way you shall be remembered
is letters on your headstone
for of the billions of people
in the world of today
only few know
to live one day
as if it is your last
for any day your life
may be taken in a flash
so many people are consumed
with money and power
how truly valuable is that
in our very last hour?
we base all our codes
on possession of gold
yet life is more precious
as one grows old
will you be remembered
for your insatiable greed
or will your name be imortal
by your unprecidented good deeds?
money in this day
is more than addictive
consumed by it you may
turn unexplainably vindictive
base your life not on love
but by wealth and power
yet as the question above clearly states
wealth is nothing
in a mans last hour
written in my hand
all I was and all I am ~
lines of love and life
Words I write cannot describe
the feelings that I have inside.
You fill my heart with warmth
that never will subside.
I watch you as you move about,
engaged in chores around the house.
I see your silhouette beneath your gown.
My eyes are older now,
but still know what they like.
Your eyes are lit as candles burning
softly in the windows of your soul,
inviting me to visit all my life.
And when your lashes gently close,
I feel the love that we both know.
Your lips are fruit ripe on the vine.
Sweeter still because they're mine.
To kiss forever, would be divine.
I'll never grow tired of your touch,
or of softly tracing fingers,
along your body's curves,
Ending with a little pat
where no one else shall know.
I hope your arms will always hold me
like our love is new.
And know with every breath you take
that I love only you.
To live a life and change each day
to dream more often and replay
the life you want to live and say
that Life joins hands with Love, that’s true
in times there’s conflict and remorse
so set yourself a chartered course
from where you are and where you’re going
To realize you have a choice
that love and life both have a voice
to live a life that love demands
or leave a love that life commands
Suns and moons will dimly go
in the final afterglow
life will age as love decays
set your words to music and sing a song
there is somewhere you belong
weather the storm and dance with the wind
walk on fire with a wide mouthed grin
love is a fantasy you can rescind
to realize you have a choice
to question life and carry on
to speak of love as in despair
but in the end you do not care
to coin a phrase as Joni recalls
I really don’t know love at all
Contest Both Sides Now
Temple may be far from my place,
Let me bring smile, to someone’s face.
Life began with a sweet charm,
enjoying till extreme, no matter what harm.
Childhood was beautiful as could be,
Without exasperation and necessitate, eternally free.
It was then I took a new dive,
Adorn in a uniform, I entered school life.
Confined boundaries saw the emergence of new faces,
Flatten my life and left without traces.
Some, embarked their facsimile in my mind,
Contemplative about them I was in cloud number nine.
Feelings were saturated with love and emotions,
Everything tempting, beyond any fascinations.
Third phase was phase of certitude,
My contumelious nature made me crude.
Parents and family took a back seat,
To the tunes of my friends, I was a dancing fleet.
Afternoons became sleepy, active were the nights,
Bikes, brawls, convulsion were common sights.
Inconsiderate, careless about my future,
Forgot almost everything taught by my teacher.
Standing on a crossroad, with a question mark,
I was 25 and my future seemed dark
Friends, who use to say never will they leave,
Smiling with others they went, hard to believe.
Wasted opportunities to guide my life,
All I could do now was compromise.
Standing alone in the scotching sun,
Some hands covered me so that skin does not burn.
Turned back to see whose hands were they,
My parents like an answered prayer
Mother removed pebbles from the road;
Father advanced his hand so that I could hold.
They guided me to my destination,
Brace me, without any hesitation.
In no time took me out of my blues,
Parents like you are very few.
You were always there, right from the start,
I thank you from the core of my heart.
Loneliness is now foreign, as self-destructive vest I once wore
Oblivious of monstrous foes as friends, I opened my doors
Summer, Fall, winter, Spring; pizzazz I knew was vaporized
To see me; who knew me, tears would well within your eyes.
Lost my sight, my sprite, my family who helped fueled my might
On bull dagger highways, byways, and beat down buildings, I lost rights
Somebody ought to tell somebody, please don't ever venture there
To think your world has come to an end, meant no roots to declare, but
Love does bloom in warmth; silence! stillness, such priceless gems
Overhead skylight oozes rain song that'll soothe your soul, and then...
Song becomes prayer sans shame; you'd weep, hoping to stay alive
They said I arrived looking lost; then soon became cute butterfly.
Lost in midnight dreams, with me in clothing I had already burned
Only waking redressed me from haunting, to new haven I was in
Someone ought to tell somebody, do seek and venture therein
Today I am lost; stepping through multiple mirrors of no harm.
Love will find you when you're lost; its sensors' deep in our heart
Out and about, I'll forever stay lost in endless maze of gratitude
Sunshine and rain, fire and ice, I'll lose myself to warm pool of recovery
Take away my pen, my sheets of white, my glasses; I'd lose me to recovery.
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Life! Love! Life!
A slight difference between
Dreamland and reality
One a home for believing
Another a house for insecurities
An unsafe place
Where your safety is always
Said to be taken care of;
Funny how that is guaranteed
To you with the lights off.
Love!
"A game of hearts"
The Heart
"It pumps blood"
Definition of a heartbreak
Is when you take what is meant
To pump blood and play with it.
Yolanda! What have you done?
Love; I treated you badly
Sadly; it took my heart first
Being tired for me to admit to defeat.
I thought you were the heart with all
Those emoticons I constantly got.
Love!On Whatsapp you
Gave me the impression that
If I see you through those puppy eyes
That the emojis had to offer; you were more realer!
Love; I misused you...
The thing is, when I saw
Romeo and Juliet and I was told it
Was a love story I knew that at some
Point you will hurt me so I might as well
Act smart and avoid what might lead me
To where Juliet ends up.
Love! Life came knocking
"Open your eyes" it said.
"Love is blind" I replied.
But Life told me that
"Those with their eyes open are
Capable of walking the bling to the forest"
I told Life "No! I won't let go"
Life said to me "If it was meant to be;
It will come back to you"
Love! Listen to me...
Love; I got confused
I confused your relationship with Life.
Love tell me: Who is Life? Is it a male?
Is it a female? Is it a person?
Love please respond to me!
"Yolanda; I am Love. I am not your heart.
I dwell in your heart. My existence in your
Heart keeps your heart pumping blood.
The blood running through your veins
Provides you with Life. Love is Life.
Life is Love"
One request Love.
Provide with Life;
Love be the life I want to Live.
Yesterday was so long ago
In the past I've always been an *******
Should have lived my life differently
Now it's just to late
Should I be dead?
When is the end?
Living now with with these dripping tears
I'm empty here without you
All alone I spend my days
Rolling my head and cracking my neck
With no one, I talk to myself
They won't even try to listen anymore
They only pretend if they want something
Will never be the same again
Living without you
Till it's my last day alive
I thought it already happened
I'll never know why
I'm a casualty of love and life
I had once gone to a place in Ghana.
In that distant land of beautiful dreams
I stood on the banks of the River Ankobra.
Watch rapids navigate the upper streams.
I followed the rush and roar as they switch.
With grandeur bliss and scary grave mists
I sought in mine and found another twist.
Threatening surprise, in trips, and slips.
A dream unseen, trapped inside the night.
With relentless demon doze trying to hide
outside there, to seek the love of my life.
With anxious eyes of the tears, she cried.
The unseen weight in fate began lifting.
Paralyzed parenthesis whose grip is weak,
Disturbing symptoms, fearfully impacting.
Serenity trying to avoid the chiding defeat.
Waking from sleep that was pure and sweet,
Peace had cheered me with a lovely dream.
But stealers of dreams leave scars of defeat.
For hope, to fill the visions we have seen.
As a weary bird seeking a place to rest
To cool her warmth adventurous breath.
She lent her eager head upon my sore chest.
And share the cold night breeze with death.
Two Dimensional Love and Life
Some lines move horizontally
Others go diagonal
There are lines that travel up and down
They all make love within their set parameters
As is their culture and tradition there
Always within the lines, as is their prerogative and mission
For years Mr. E-line traveled from the east alone
One day he stumbled into Le Le Ling, from a line of high position
Coming from the east straight at him without permission
She was a fine line worth knowing, from a noble lineage
Both wanted sex directly when they met
They fell in linear love from point to point
Neither could continue forward, nor go up or down
And forget about left and right, as their world was flat and straight
They had to do everything frontal and did so on the spot
In the two dimensional realm you were caste from birth
To mate with someone from your universe
From your circle so to speak
Obviously they are lines so let’s proceed
In any case they came from flat lands of the east and west
Horizontal was the only life they knew
Le Le Ling and E- line were destined for each other
Other lines outside of Horizontal World were frowned upon
Diagonals were out of fashion, up and down too
Looked down upon in flat land prejudicial manner
Though “down” in their reality was not an option
Other dimensions did not exist for them
From their narrow point of view
Mr. And Mrs. Line had a baby line one day
They named it Little Liner
Raise it to be direct and true
And straight as an arrow too
In their religion there is only one commandment
Look in front of you to find your way to heaven
Since you have no other direction any way
Stay in line, head toward the light to find the truth
life is SHORT.
love is LONG.
love the life.
it also will be LONG.
LOVELY.....
Love is quick, kind
Love is forgotten
It is long, memorable
It is desired
The sought for substance, hidden from view
Locked deep inside, kept brand new
For when the right key was found for that grand treasure chest
That love may be found, unused and unscathed
But though all seek the forbidden treasure,
Those who are left in the dark,
Only strangle themselves with misery
The light is lost forever.
love and life
both fight and hug
cause confusion and miss interpretation
both hurt and both relax
both cause tears
and both have paths
love or no love
life with out a sound
it hurts to deep
to figure out
love causes life
and life continue on love
for learning
or for one another
just keeping remember
to love one another
or to live life
with out tears on the side
there are two reason
why we cry
and why we stay alive
it is because of
love and life