Get Your Premium Membership

Journey Poems | Examples of Journey Poetry

Journey Poems - Examples of all types of journey poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for journey.
WHAT IS LEFT OF ME
What is left of me Did you ever think of how I will feel Do you ever think of how I Will live What is left of me is your fault Do you ever think of...Read More
Categories: journey, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bells
Timbres in Many Splendored Tones Underneath the sprawling branches of an old oak, a schoolyard hums, Bells announce the passing hours, a melodic guide for eager minds dancing between the lines of learning, their...Read More
Categories: appreciation, encouraging, endurance, journey,
Form: Free verse
Once upon my time
Once upon a December we were friends. Once upon a cold night holding onto a time we knew someday would end. A whole new world we’ll never see. You're stuck drowning under the sea, after letting go...Read More
Categories: journey, best friend, childhood, december,
Form: Free verse
Loving Me
Walking through the forest to give my mind a rest. Taking time to unwind hoping for the best. Swimming in the ocean feeling the cool breeze. Giving back to myself finally at ease. Laying in the flowers loving the...Read More
Categories: appreciation, emotions, feelings, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Voyage
by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett Set sail on an ocean, An unknown sea, At times adrift, unknown destination, No compass or charts to see. No return to original harbor I must sail on, Perilous to halt, cannot anchor In this ship not chosen. Yet I...Read More
Categories: destiny, fate, journey, life,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Fruit of Thought
thoughts need inspiration to move from contemplation to fruition...Read More
Categories: journey, encouraging, feelings, growth, inspiration,
Form: Monoku
Metamorphosis of my life
After years of life that I've been through, As a caterpillar in heart so blue, Growing up in the land of confusion, And the mentality of seclusion. Watching at butterflies come and go, Desirably...Read More
Categories: journey, butterfly, change, character, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Neglect
“A wound gets worse when it’s treated with neglect.” – Stevie Nicks My heart aches, like the sun aches for the moon, but stalling became my shackle, knowing an evolution was never on the horizon; wandering stark habitats— paradoxically, a devoted...Read More
Categories: feelings, journey, lost, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The All of Thanksgiving
Brightness and burden Is the portrait of Many we meet.. She's carrying a book For the little library A token of giving.. She's also carrying Worries of what seems Shading her life.. Her bright greeting Registers as the All Of Thanksgiving......Read More
Categories: anxiety, journey, love, words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Journey-SHM
The JOURNEY began a long time ago, traversed meandering lone LIFE pathway across the terrain of the ROUGH plateau, despite distractions I didn’t ever stray. The sun shines bright in seamless cobalt sky, colored canvas of contoured vale in sight,...Read More
Categories: journey, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In the Shadow of the Sacred
("Winter's Edge", 2018, original encaustic) In The Shadow of the Sacred This game Of life Played With full abandon With all our doubts And confusions Hopes and fears As we soldier on Suffer and grow Gradually or suddenly Expanding the crack In the cosmic egg The...Read More
Categories: home, journey, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Have you the century
Pardon, sir, but have you the century I'm quite lost, you see The time I was in, it just didn't agree with...Read More
Categories: history, journey, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ON the ROAD TO ENLIGHTENMENT
I am 70 years old…I spent a good deal of my life teaching students with Autism I like to think I’m as enlightened as I can be… I work in a bookstore for goodness sake… if anyone knows...Read More
Categories: journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hearts in Jerusalem
Living simply rejoicing in their callings He, a shoemaker finest quality long-lasting leather She, a seamstress ...Read More
Categories: jewish, journey, joy, new
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the long game
We’re playing the long game. We share things, we’re lovers, we slip in and out of each other’s lives like jackets hanging on the back of a door. Relationships are like instruments, they must be played, kept in tune, the carnal...Read More
Categories: dedication, desire, feelings, journey,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Journey Poems

Definition | What is Journey in Poetry?