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Best Once In A Lifetime Poems

Below are the all-time best Once In A Lifetime poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of once in a lifetime poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Seaman Finds His Lighthouse
Out at sea, facing a dark heartfelt storm.
Heading for a lighthouse, taking him home.
 Looking at a lit place, over the Hill.
Music and laughter, the...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, lonely, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Merry Go Round of Earth
One half is submerged in light,
the other in darkness.
Half says goodnight and the other
tugs the harness.

Kids climb backyard trees tinged
with school bus yellow.
As lovers play...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, analogy, appreciation, beauty, bible,
Form: Quatrain
If One Evening By Chance
If one evening by chance, You and I were alone
would you reach for me knowing
for You I eternally long.

Would you walk away and pretend these...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, best friend, longing, passion,
Form: Rhyme
A Friend To the Wind Even Now
On a leaf I would write you a letter 
and mail it into the wind
that's the chance I had in finding ,
my once in a...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, friendship, thank you,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Such Does Exist
I ran out of breath on the road to Mumbai ...

    Not for sake of dust or smog or even health. I...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, appreciation, beauty, imagery, travel,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Someone To Open Your Eyes - For Arthur
Maybe not once in a lifetime,
                   ...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, anti bullying, art, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dance, the Song
Life is a dance.
As the waves come in, I dance with the ocean
with songs of God’s love in my head.
On a passing cloud there floats...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, life,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Mystic Valley of Dzoku
While rambling like a vagabond in a seraphic poetic submersion, in a remote region, witnessed the most captivated sight ever, 
a sleeping valley rippled in...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, adventure, appreciation, beauty, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Requiem For a Seahorse
On a sultry, sizzling July day
I swear it happened just this way
In a tidal pool, a lifeless seahorse lay

He’d not galloped to meet his fate
But...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, animal, inspiration,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member The Fiesta of Cherry Blossom
Let’s fly to the celestial fiesta of the cherry blossom,
In the North Eastern Region of Shillong, named, “The Scotland of the East,
The abode of the...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, celebration, nature, paradise, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rarest of Things
I gaze at the wind as it blows acorss the grown wheat.
My neck bends down and I stare at the grass beneath my feet.
The thoughts...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, inspirational, dark, dark, ocean,
Form: Light Verse
Walk of Love
The dark clouds threatened rain in the late evening sky.
They decided to take an umbrella in order to stay dry.
Their happiness was evident on each...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, love, nature, romance, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Forever In My Heart
Looking out across the morning sky
Amazed at the beautiful sunrise
In which, I see your ravishing smile
And against my skin, a warm summer breeze
As gentle as...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, love, me, passion, romance,
Form: List
Premium Member Arthur
The bar was open at nine
And my banker said all was fine
Champagne and limousines
Roses tossed, like petals in time

She caught my fancy
She looked divine
I was...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, life, love,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Heaven Is This
once,
maybe?
just once in a lifetime 
you touch,
brush,
less than a touch,

maybe just maybe
once in a lifetime
you are close enough to greatness
to almost feel it

but you don’t
because...

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Categories: once in a lifetime, innocence,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things