Best Meaning Of Life Poems
Since I've resolved to laugh at life-
find humor in its flaws,
and realize that stress and strife
are shaped by worldly laws;
Since I've resolved to compromise
with dreams that can't come true,
yet listen to my inner cries-
to follow those anew;
Since I've resolved to meet the test
of strengths by which I live-
and always do my honest best
to trust and to forgive;
Since I've resolved- my love to share
with every kin and friend,
set time aside to listen, care-
their sorrows ease, transcend;
Since I've resolved to ply my skills
expressed through words and art,
feel the sweet joy each piece fulfills-
to share my thoughts and heart;
Since I've resolved that time on earth
is but a short-lived stay-
fine-tuning for my greater worth
neath heaven's golden ray;
Since I've resolved to set life free-
embrace it- scarce or rife.
I now accept, with joy to see-
the meaning of my life.
Through life...I've learned the meaning of love.
Through love...I've felt the feeling of heartbreak.
Through heartbreak...I've felt the feeling of pain.
Through pain...I've learned the meaning of acceptance.
Through acceptance...I've learned the meaning of forgiveness.
Through forgiveness...I've learned the meaning of faith.
Through faith...I've learned the meaning of life.
We are all important in life...
We all have a purpose in life...
Now all we have to do is...
Make every purpose count...
~Life~
Is a learning experience
~Life~
Is a state of existence that belongs to the soul
~Life~
Is the true meaning of meaning
~Life~
Is the state of something significant,and of great importance
~Life~
Is what is intended to be or is
~Life~
Has a beginning,a purpose, and an end...
Danny Boy:4-1-13 :o)
THE BARE INFINITIVE
Look: up above the stratosphere
Outside the earth's blanket veneer
Beyond planets stars and galaxy
Past even faintest nebulae
Far from the pull of gravity
Free of Dark Matter's hidden vector
In existential cavity
Untied to any spacial sector
All human weakness risen above
In solo freedom primitive
Beyond the bonds of hate or love
There sits the Bare Infinitive
No cares nor problems, fears nor pains
But there's one question that remains
From Liberty, took a blessed kiss?
Or to false seductive promise succumb
Is he in sublime unfettered bliss?
Or formless, endless tedium
COROLLARY - The Meaning of Life
So perforce the very asking of the question
May reveal the answer to that greater plea
Why suffer slings and arrows, pains, anguish, oppression
When we might, by NOT opposing, be set free
The gloomy prince omitted consequence unsaid
In agonising on the walls of Elsinore
Endless nothingness holds nought for us but dread
Perchance to dream preferred to void; that we abhor
Thus life’s meaning may be: to be within a life
Then if we also have a purpose vied with strife
Result: interest, time, curiosity, interaction and aim
Or the elements of what we call: A Game.
Lest you think this demeans Creation to mere caprice
Then observe to be the player, not the piece.
24 May 2019
Life
Spins
Shuffling
A playlist
Sequencing events
Encapsulating fierce lessons
Exuding a gentle breeze that conveys fear triumph
Savoring nectar sweetness brought with living each moment as first day of existence
For Life Contest
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5-15-2016
Others, and my children, wanted to understand the meaning of life.
As I’d recently had surgery number 7, yes, gone under the knife.
It’s simple, you see… And it’s not so very hard to believe…
I once met God and understand, what for some, is hard to perceive.
That while we’re here, Love is what everything is all, totally, about.
We get… so very lost in the every day and the mundane, no doubt.
When almost gone, the love of friends, family, and life is like the sun.
When God asks what you’ve done, as you see the harm you’ve won.
You’ll cringe at those things, not left behind, but what you have done.
You’ll wish you’d stopped, helped lighten, others lifes, along life’s run.
So I’ve decided to make life brighter, if only with a little written fun.
I’ve helped strangers as I can, time and again… while life did run.
And yes there’s always someone we’ve hurt, and left behind in the dirt.
But we must try, and then must ask forgiveness for their, terrible hurt.
We can’t always see, how we hurt others, you see, we live under a veil.
That deadens the sight of what we have done to other’s lives, so all fail.
But we also… have been given the time and chance to do some right.
A kind word, a little help, to change the world, make it, more bright.
The miracles you see, are from others, that want the world, to be…
As God wants, full of love and full of, way more, abundant, good deeds.
We must try to make others smile, if only for a small, brief, little while.
Yes, we must try to make our life better, so to help others, some how.
And we must bow down and give thanks for our own, special, little lives.
For some, their mission is to help others, with them, to begin to thrive.
For some it is more, but with all, a simple spark of hope, takes them far.
Be God’s hand, even in small simple ways, give hope, along the way…
Written 9-21-2015
In the overall scheme of things
What matters most in life
It's the love of another human being
The total commitment between two hearts
That indescribable connection
When you recognize that someone is oh so very special
Of all the people we rub elbows with
During our too short a time on earth
One who stands out head and shoulders above the rest
One to share our most intimate dreams with
Almost as if we two are one
When we meet that person
The fire between the two of us rages
The signs are unmistakable
They totally consumes us
To the point where nothing else seems important
Only the deep love of another soul
To know this love is to know the true meaning of life
© Jack Ellison 2014
The Mountain –
I climb between a foothill
And its craggy legs. Self will,
See me through
Where few have forged before,
Higher than the hawks explore
And higher than my clouded view.
I must not fail, there must be more!
I go
IN SEARCH OF THE MEANING OF LIFE
Beauty Most Rare –
Days past the conifers below,
Green fur upon the snow.
A lone bloom
Higher, fighting through the drift
And higher, I kiss this fragile gift.
The petals bruise and fall against the gloom.
Beauty most rare, your death is swift.
Ah no,
You Do Not Hold The Meaning Of Life
Wisdom –
Time blurs within this wintry void.
Hand here, foot there, my wits employed,
This is the way
Higher, my path within my eyes
And higher, I pause and realize
This is not wisdom hard at play,
My quest is far from wise.
Ah no,
You Do Not Hold The Meaning Of Life
Love –
My need yearns to drink her scent.
Such longing rues the quest’s ascent.
I must push on!
Higher, she waves beyond my reach
And higher, this love begins to teach
‘Though loved ones may be gone,
They live within the hearts of each.
I wonder,
Perhaps You Hold The Meaning Of Life
Holiness –
The climb has all but claimed my life.
I only see my home, my wife.
A cave ahead?
Higher, I see the open door
And higher, he sits upon the frozen floor.
I ask for truth. He lifts his head
And laughs, “We live, we die.” And nothing more?
Ah no!
You Do Not Hold The Meaning Of Life
Friendship –
Higher, I must steel my will
And higher, I fall and feel no chill.
The quest is lost!
The mountain peak and dreaming blends…
I waken in the hands of friends
Who followed me despite the cost.
On you my breath depends!
Ah, yes
You Hold The Meaning Of Life!
("Meaning of Life Merit Badge" #13, 2010, original oil)
The Meaning of Life
Monty Python got it right:
The meaning of life
Has nothing to do with hats.
It has to do with a conscious appreciation
Cultivated in this life, for this life
With all the particulars it offers.
It’s not a given,
Which is why it must be found,
And once found cherished.
The essence is simple,
That while we have and depend on things
We are not a thing.
And yet over and over we lose this focus,
But in the act of losing
Find once again, the meaning.
(2/17/25)
The Meaning of Life
Falling from sky
Heading for earth
No, parachute
That’s Birth!
What is then the meaning of life?
To hit the ground destined
Escape none
Fear great
Death on!
What is then the meaning of life?
The falling long
The falling short
No difference makes
That’s the shock!
What is then the meaning of life?
Should I follow
Gravity’s call
Or enjoy the ride
The splendor of all?
Is that perhaps the meaning of life?
As a way out
Of this dilemma, I seek,
My heart cries loud:
Let’s take the risk!
That could be the meaning of life.
Countless dreams then I make
And myriad goals at once I set
It is so fun I shout,
That I forget all the rest
That sounds to be the meaning of life!
The purpose that I have found
Is withholding now the chute
No way to hit then the ground
Cause of this life-saving parachute!
That is after all the meaning of life!
©Demetrios Trifiatis
The decades have slipped by
Sometimes I think I understand
But really most times I know
I haven’t figured out anything
And I haven’t got a clue
In any case with the setting sun
The meaning of life is at best enigmatic
All I really know is that time is elusive
And each precious minute volatile
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book ~THE TIME WE ARE GIVEN~ 2023
AP: 2nd place 2022, 3rd place 2025
Submitted on August 8, 2019 for contest NA RERUN - 2 sponsored by JOHN HAMILTON - RANKED 5TH
What is the meaning of this life?
Is it pain and grief and strife?
Is it the happy and joyful things?
Those things that life finally brings?
Is it the dark and dreary trail?
Is it the plainness oh so stale?
Is it love, or little children?
Is it death that’s so forbidden?
Is it birth and death; so wrong?
Is it the final bells that gong?
Is it the little ones that are so dear?
Is it their love that’s always near?
Is it the balance of good and bad?
Is it the balance of happy and sad?
Is it adventure?
Is it surprise?
Is it that look in someone’s eyes?
Is it the planning of our demise?
Is it a deadly combination?
Is it all these and much tribulation?
Is it regret or fear of failure?
Is it like a drunken sailor?
I can’t find the answer high or low.
If you know please tell me so.
One day, while walking in the park,
I met an old man sitting on a bench,
looking up at the blue sky.
I sat next to him. He looked at me
Like I was his son or a friend.
Why do you look at the sky? I asked.
His wrinkles smiled.
The sky, he said, has been here
since before I was born.
And the moon, and the clouds, and the stars
are beautiful to me.
Then he looked at the huge tree on his right,
a bird sitting on the trunk, twittering.
He listened merrily and happily
And he said...this bird is free
It jumps from trunk to trunk
It goes from land to land
It eats food for free
I listened to his humble talk.
Stunned and enchanted by his story
His simple truth ran
through the chapters of my life.
The truth is simple, he said.
No one can reject or forbid.
Life is to live without hate or greed
With others on this grand planet
We live under one sky
We walk on the same sand
We breathe the same air
We eat the same food
We drink water from the same clouds
We share the same feelings
of passion and compassion.
Man! Come. Let us reason and reflect.
Life is a path to another life
We are walkers to another place.
We encounter many trials and tests.
Some we fail. Some we pass.
Step by step, we walk out our destiny.
Today or tomorrow, we will vanish,
not remembered
after one or two generations.
So, why not laugh and dance?
a life without meaning
is no life at all.
a saying
heard
by you.
what is a life
if it has no meaning?
is it truly a life
or is it
not?
I like to think
if life has a meaning
it is to keep
us going
on.
but what if it truly
has no meaning?
Then what are we
truly here
for?
Life is less about having or being,
And more about becoming.
Likewise, it is less about knowing
And more about learning…
At least until you’re dead.
The difference between who you are today
And who you were yesterday
Are the friends you’ve made
And the books you’ve read…
This is the true way to ‘get ahead’.
If there exists a post-mortal afterlife,
I hope you’ll share it with a husband or wife.
So if you hope you’ll be with him or her,
Start now and treat that person better—
Why wait until you’re dead?!
Is life meaningless or full of sense?
Can we tell? Or perhaps we're too dense.
But I'd rather not know.
It's a good status quo.
I prefer existential suspense.