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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LIFE AFTER LIFE
Reincarnation
why we still don't believe
after so many lives lived...!...
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Categories:
life, allusion, memory, mystery, perspective,
Form: Epigram
TRUE LOVE
The only thing that lives within us
and keeps us away from death,
...
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Categories:
allusion, life, love,
Form: Epigram
mob mentality explainedCrowds of irritated people joined the mob
Anger and violence, a volunteer non-job
Breaking windows and kicking in storm doors
Frustration lurking at their cores
Some were unsure why they were even there
One of them picked up an office...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Rhyme
A pot not fully bakedA pot am I made some two decades back,
Baked too but not enough,
In search of a good kiln
To rid some half-baked fluff.
And then to set sail
In this ocean of life.
Why?
Go far without getting drowned,
Someone...
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Categories:
life, ocean, poets,
Form: Free verse
Love Is Lost
Love may be lost in the process of age
and hidden in the miserly sunset
of life, draining like a father's cold sweat.
Oh, that you could absorb my red-hot rage
and exist in a long moment with...
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Categories:
life, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
view from the voidwithin this dream
where thought streams flow
heart beams pure love...
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Categories:
dream, heart, life, muse,
Form: Than-Bauk
Alphabet SoupAdventure brewed crowded dreams,
endlessly fairs genteel habit,
instilled jargons,
kidnapped laurels minted- naively,
oscillating power quickly,
rendering sweeten treasures universal voice,
warrior xysts zoologically....
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Categories:
green, life,
Form: ABC
Slices of Life
A new tomato burst
beneath a blade, its juice
streaking my wrist,
mimicry of something I swore off
years ago.
Seeds scatter like liquid mercury
across the cutting board,
smallest of...
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Categories:
life, food, grave,
Form: Free verse
Christina In Red
As she waits, dressed in his favorite red,
she waits alone in an old-fashioned world,
not a breath of wind dares tossel her head
nor a drop of rain though the sea is twirled
by unceasing tide in passage...
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Categories:
death, life, time,
Form: Sonnet
In the penumbra of life, a choir of lost souls dancesIn the penumbra of life, a choir of lost souls dances,
Their ephemeral steps leave traces on the sands of passing time,
Their dreams, like night butterflies, crash into closed windows,
While the sea of existence churns under...
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Categories:
life, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
deep, emotions, grief, life,
Form: Couplet
RAINBOW BABY BOYBefore you come to us
Every day your parents dreamt of you
And they try to imagine your beautiful face
I know every day you prayed for your son
And at that time you could picture your baby in...
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Categories:
life, baby, birth, blessing, children,
Form: Free verse
My HandsMy hands are clenched into fists
Knuckles white, bulging like boulders of rage
They tremble with the weight of repressed fury
Itching to lash out, to break something, anything, everything
Each finger is ready to poke hard, judge...
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Categories:
life, anger, beautiful, emotions, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Wanderer LifeWanderer Life
Live like a wanderer is a gift from Life
A noble award and merit from wildlife
Our fortune is our sad fate, one kind
We want life, not the destruction of war
We want air, not pollution and...
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Categories:
fate, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Song of LifeThe stabbing blade of pain-
Glass broken by the beating drum of our hearts,
The melody that keeps us alive:
The melody that we dance and sing to ourselves,
The hum that plays in our soul in a moment...
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Categories:
life, age, death, deep, growth,
Form: Free verse
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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