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Best True To Life(A) Poems

Below are the all-time best True To Life(A) poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of true to life(a) poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member If
IF

If you can help others fulfill their dreams
 And your heart ever seeks far greater Light
If you hold true, evade life tempting schemes
 And with...

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Categories: true to life(a), art, creation, deep, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love

(  “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)

Deep...

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Categories: true to life(a), death, deep, depression, heartbreak,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Making Tea
It's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after 
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness

Encountering myself...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: true to life(a), allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration,
Form: Concrete
Allowance
My prints are visible for now as I press the soaked sand
Breathing in the cured sea air
I hear the silent roar of its mighty movement
Disobedient...

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Categories: true to life(a), introspection, life, nature, visionarysea,
Form: Free verse
This Is Me and My Life
They said it’s time I settle down
If I can’t find a man of my own 
They will be pleased to help me with that
They’re going...

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Categories: true to life(a), emotions, family, freedom, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Soul's Plan
I've listened to your twisted words
Of love with sound advice
And though I do agree with you
Still something isn't right
It's true this life is no rehearsal
And...

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© Roger Harp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: true to life(a), metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Timely Fragments
Old Jambu tree
Still bearing fruits;
Generous delights

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NDP crowd
Massive tapestry;
Community celebration

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Each passing year
Affirms our country;
Diversity in oneness

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We celebrate
Our little red dot;
Gratitude remembers

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So much to see
So little time;
Familiar...

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Categories: true to life(a), blessing,
Form: Haiku
The Coconut Tree
and like a shark you must keep moving forward
bare your teeth – lest mistaken for a coward
be ruthless – or you’ll drown in your sorrows...

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Categories: true to life(a), how i feel, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Patience Endures
PATIENCE ENDURES!

The world and the people and the individuals that come together to populate universal thinking.
Society-at-large development is seen.
How come then everything seems to be...

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Categories: true to life(a), america, confidence, future, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Cry of the Cross

The land was cloaked in a black dress,
The crowd was watching my Christ die,
When the blinding darkness, the deafening stillness 
Was shattered by an overwhelming...

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Categories: true to life(a), father son, god, gospel,
Form: Rhyme
Upsurge
Far beyond the horizon we gazed at sunlit skies 
glowing from gigantic mountains, thick blue clouds
hang peacefully over our heads, painting hopes and 
aspirations as...

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Categories: true to life(a), celebration, faith, success,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Will She Draw Him To Her Light
She wanders in darkest Night
Bathed in incandescent Light
Her pathway is all aglow
His dwelling lies in Shadow

A gentle rustling he hears
He is consumed by his fears
Beyond,...

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Categories: true to life(a), fantasy, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
The Legend of Talos, Sero and Jack
Legend has it that six hundred years ago, lived a creature of the wild. His name was Talos. He held the strength of a bear...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: true to life(a), children, courage, myth,
Form: Narrative
Wilst Thou Marry Me
Fairest of the fair wilst thou be as wife
For thy breathe though lips elixir kisses 
Our future can allow me true immortal life

I see mine...

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Categories: true to life(a), marriage, wedding, love, me,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Dawn Light Haiku
Radio impulse
Stray songs invite;
Hip melancholy

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Words and lyrics
Basket of moods;
Mental corridors

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Espresso machine
Caffeine song;
Frothy brew

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Dancing darling
Plucks my heart strings;
Sense surround

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Listen now
Birdsong metaphor;
Dawn brings magic

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Profound moments
Rain wets window;
Windy...

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Categories: true to life(a), beauty,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs