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Life Poems | Poems About Life's Journey, Struggle, and Fun

Not On A Monday
No hurried alarms, Soft and gentle morning light, Coffee is brewed without rush. World quietly waits, Every hour mildly flows past, Each heart beats with free delight. ...

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Categories: life,
Form: Choka
Premium Member collaterally speaking
collaterally speaking... war is like plowing... don't like peace...hell!...bomb-plow it: life...collateral......

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Categories: allegory, life, peace, political,
Form: Haiku



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Sponsor : Craig Cornish date submitted : 26/6/25 ___________ Lost in echoes of darkened time dampened, dithering, dazed wet withered witches mime a dime fearful, I’m mazed or crazed Calling Divinity, voicebox shut eyelids glued, nostrils stuffed lips zipped with copper thread eardrums worrisome waned Where are chiming confluent clocks highways and internet ? shadows dim whisper, “badly blocked, pointless you bet, get set...

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Categories: life, allegory, allusion, character, courage,
Form: Verse
Maze of Life
I am surrounded by Numberless wells, At every step that I can, Take, but up to the well, I am to fell down, Into depth of the well, And from where I will, Return is not sure, If I come back, there is, Another well, if I take, A step, I will fell down, In the depth of another, Well, I am set in the maze, Of...

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Categories: life, abuse, addiction, age, allah,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the stage of life, I paint my lips crimson, a smile stitched with invisible thread
On the stage of life, I paint my lips crimson, a smile stitched with invisible thread, While the scar beneath my ribs sings a melody only I can hear. The halogen spotlights burn intensely, bleaching the shadows where my pain retreats, Like a sleeping child, small, forgotten, yet still breathing in the deafening silence. Pirouetting with borrowed grace, each...

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Categories: life, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Norm All
Norm All Norm-All Norm-Al Normal. It's The Worst Insanity Humanity Has Ever Created! Yeah Yeah Yeah... All Of Them! All!!! -Gray Squirrel 06-25-2025...

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Categories: life,
Form: Free verse
Is the time of our departure from earth near part two
O how it is so very clear that our departure in rapture's flight of 777 Is alas also so very near and it could be departing any moment of Every single solitary day. That is why Jesus tells us "fear not and Don't be afraid." When I am coming for my children in the middle Of that...

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Categories: life, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Yellow Warbler
Yellow Warbler That's A Real Warbly One, That I Never Knew. Photo Image Copy Writ I'm Sure. I'm Certain. Curtains Wrapped In Values Dear Steer The Mood To Rats And Hawks. Want To Watch? A Hawk Refreshed? You Talk Or Talk But Not Talk Now... No-Not-Know. Every Foot-Fall? I Didn't Even Know The Frea-King Bird. I Have No ID-ea What's IM-portant. And Neither Do You. We...

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Categories: life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retirement
67 years 8 months, you are now of age What achievements have you to gage Married twice children there are four What legacy is left as you walk out the door Bowler. Firefighter, part time clown Carpenter, DPW worker, man with a frown Wonderful daughter, 2 boys and one stepson To most this would be a lottery won A failed engagement, divorce, a...

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Categories: cheer up, life, retirement,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Without Merit
You condemn me from shadows you've never dared to leave, Crafting judgment from fragments you refuse to believe. I wear your scorn like armor, forged in silent wars, And still you tremble—because I never needed your doors. You pass your sentences like rituals in a dying faith, But I know truth: it...

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Categories: life, anger, angst, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse
Echoes: Veils of Uncertainty
A silver bird departs, the sky serene, Yet morning’s promise shatters in a breath; Ash falls where laughter and bright hopes had been, A city mourns the sudden hand of death. In distant hills, a traveler’s path grows cold, A journey meant for dreams, now left undone; The news arrives—too heavy to be told— A vanished step, a race that’s never run. Where...

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Categories: death, funeral, life, vanity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Tonight I Cried
Tonight I cried. The silence after giving was louder than my music ever dared to be. Six cards, six names—none turned toward me. I asked why. The void answered with its back. Tonight I walked into the open like a soldier with no armor. The wind was a warning. The world—cold, familiar....

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Categories: life, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form: Rhyme
swarovski sunsets hiku
lilac h u s h of love ~ ...

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Categories: life, light, love, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
pedestrian lane hiku
For Brian Strand's 1393 Poetry Contest 26 June 2025 ____ / \ l STOP l ...

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Categories: life, travel,
Form: Haiku
Torn Apart World
Feel like im 1 of 1 in this torn apart world, if i turn cold thats undone seen with my past mistakes nothing new under the sun, someone else has sat in this place a world where we keep a loaded gun and a mask to cover our face from pain we easily run i guess were scared of...

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Categories: dream, imagery, life, love,
Form: Rhyme

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