Lif Poems

Premium MemberPlay with Fire Till Your Fingers Burn

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           ~Play With Fire Till your Fingers Burn~
                      5/20/2025

Experience life to its full brink,so sad, to witness any human, being had!
Just try to be a mirror of the...
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Categories: lif, courage, environment, fate, poets,
Form: Free verse

German Poetry translations into English I

...These are modern English translations of poems by the German poets Hannah Arendt, Ingeborg Bachmann, Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim and Heinrich Heine.



Heinrich Heine

The Seas Have Their Pearls
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Categories: lif, death, heart, heaven, love,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberAutumn Leaves

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Amber, orange, red, gold  falL
Undergo change from green lifE
Touched by sweet decaying aromA
Undercurrent swirling dance of improV
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Categories: autumn, color, death, life,
Form: Acrostic

Forced Population

...In these days and times
Women are not having 
Large family's anymore because
They can't raise their kids properly
Without constant interference
From the laws and unfair rules
As a parent you lo...
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Categories: lif, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberToo Far Gone

...My life has brought me to such horrible end - I might say,
Or I might blame the subtlest of my soapy sinful way;
Divine graces blossomed around me like pure prim-roses,
I chose thorns; who to blam...
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Categories: life, psychological,
Form: Rhyme


Wisp

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no short cu...
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Categories: lif, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Jeopardy and Other Awkard Words

...Those who are difficult are always difficult to understand. 
We never know what they mean or wmay ant to mean. 
Confused, confounded and  contagious are words which
adequately describe all of our ...
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Categories: lif, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?

Some Poems

...A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth 


We surrounded him 
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin 
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And...
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Categories: lif, dream, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHappy Or Depressed

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Happy
Happy o
Happy or
Happy or d
Happy or de
Happy or dep
Happy or depr
Happy or depres
Happy or depress
Happy or depresse
Happy ...
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Categories: lif, anxiety, depression, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Shape

Premium MemberOur Love As Memories

...* This for is called Acrostic, but this particular one forms a phrase on BOTH ends - I hope you enjoy it! *

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Yesterdays, never tell me where they run to
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Categories: lif, analogy, metaphor, nostalgia, romance,
Form: Acrostic

When Is Life Best

...When is Life best?
hours fly in rush 
each day of Life,
nice time when then?



13-Jan-2020
WHEN..and THEN.. Poetry Contest
4 line poe...
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Categories: life,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberMy Birthday Present

...I have a special birthday…to me that’s very clear
I mean what luck is it to have my birthday on the last day of the year!

And when Deborah asks me what I want tomorrow…how will we celebrate this ...
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Categories: lif, birthday,
Form: Verse

I Am Successful and Belief System In Lif

...1.I AM SUCCESSFUL.

I AM SUCCESSFUL 
LEARN TO LIVE IN THE PRESENT 
AND NOT THE PASS 

I AM SUCCESSFUL 
ALWAYS HEADED TOWARD THE FUTURE. 

I AM SUCCESSFUL 
WHAT I CAN BE AND WHAT I CAN DO IS...
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Categories: lif, africa, age, america, anger,
Form: Romanticism

Gone

...Dear, 
     When I think about how you made me feel my heart starts racing, palms start to sweat, and my body gets these internal warm chills.
      They keep on creeping up my spine and tell my he...
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Categories: lif, break up, crazy, depression,
Form: Free verse

Friends Beginning and Ending

...Friendships sometimes do takeofff
Remaining friends from year to year
Influenced by love’s stimulI
Ever changes each the other’s life.
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Categories: lif, friendship,
Form: Acrostic

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