Life Poems. Read and share beautiful poems about life’s experiences, struggles, fun, adventure, and journey. Life poetry conveys a point in time that has had an impact on us. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Need of greedFind your balance
Find your place
Goldilocks zone
Within this race
Our want in life
Versus our need
Survival progression
The urge to breed
Pare back our life
To simple pleasure
Take from our greed
The time to treasure
Not frivolous frills
Bus simple sustainment
Not always...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Rhyme
RobotRobot
My vacuum is a robot
My tumble dryer, true
They're programmed to assist
My world
And keep it ordered too
I feed my dishy-washer
My clothes go in a box
It's where the magic happens
Yet
It always eats my socks
My telly can now...
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Categories:
inspirational love, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
MortalsMortals
By Michelle Morris
31/03/2023
Here we mortals turn to stone
By our hardened hearts
And callous disregard
For each other and our planet
Let us embrace our humanity
And melt the hardness and tar
That holds us down and immobilised
That keeps us...
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Categories:
community, freedom, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
My sins and yoursWe are all connected through time and space.
My sins and yours
By Michelle Morris
30/03/2023
I counted my sins
And they were like
The grains of rice
On the chessboard
On each square
They doubled up
Until they became
Infinite into the ethers
Too...
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Categories:
community, humanity, life, sin,
Form: Free verse
Death of a Loved One
Your voice, your face, your love for me
exist still in my heart and mind.
Though you've been gone for many years,
your essence isn't hard to find.
I hear expressions you once used;
you...
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Categories:
death, grief, heaven, life,
Form: Quatrain
Why ye teach so much O LifeWhy ye teach so much O Life,
Thou art not centuries rife.
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Gulzaar |14.03.2023 | couplet
Poet’s note: This is translation of lyricist Gulzar’s short shyries.
Itna kyu sikhaye ja rahi ho zindagi,
hamen kaun si sadiyan gujarni hai yahan.
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Categories:
life,
Form: Couplet
Reserving a slice of serenityI'm taking back what's mine, you see,
Saving some of me, just for me.
In this space, I feel so free,
Learning to love myself, finally.
I used to give until I bled,
Putting myself last, instead.
But now I know...
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Categories:
happy, joy, life, self,
Form: Free verse
What Happened to YesterdayI was a famous, learned historian, living a good life in prevalent today;
As vast, grey clouds must move on, once wild storms are swept away.
I spent many golden days and plum evenings, perusing historical books,
Like...
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Categories:
dream, fantasy, growth, life,
Form: Couplet
FiftyI've turned fifty just today.
I feel I came just yesterday.
So many years have already passed.
And life has been so very fast.
I have achieved so many things.
But have no clue what Time brings,
Although I see the...
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Categories:
life, age, anniversary, april, journey,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Discontent
Darkness breeds discontent in my heart
Fanning the flames of hatred and fear
Looking into the eternal abyss
Wondering how finite my days are
No matter how I cling to life
I'm consumed by thoughts of the end
How these once...
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Categories:
life, anger, dark, how i
Form: Free verse
I thought life was easy
I thought life was easy
easy it was but not for me
searched fortune i could not find
I thought life was easy
so my sadness I could not hide
just frustration to show
I thought life was easy
easy...
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Categories:
life, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended
Form: Triolet
Time Collab With Jo
Every moment is fleeting fast
The present will soon become past
God has gifted this time to man
To live and use for a short span
All our life we wasted our time
We did not know this in our...
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Categories:
giving, heaven, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
This is loveThis is love
By Michelle Morris
30/03/2023
The moment you became
A part of my body
Was the moment you were
Loved here on Earth
Your tiny heartbeat
Creating a rhythm with mine
Your tiny soul forever
Joined in the Universe's magic divine
This is...
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Categories:
life, angel, baby, birth, blessing,
Form: Free verse
CURTAIN CALLI flee from the reality of self
In blind attempt at being self-less
Confronting an enlightened self-interest.
I have stepped into the shadows
Allowed them the spotlights curse
of cheers and boos of curtain calls.
Suppress the urge to take the...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Blank verse
If Only I CouldIt was a dilemma, like choosing betwixt fig and plum,
It's not, like the devil and the deep sea, to overcome;
It's a task of reestablishing my relationship -
A fast friendship that got shattered, of late, like...
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Categories:
friendship, life,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Life Poems
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adventure, carpe diem, courage, depression, education, family, funny, future, happy, heartbreak, introspection, journey, love, paradise, rhyme,
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