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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Take a chance
Did you roll the dice
Knowing it was your vice
For to take a chance
It had some romance
So did you go for it
Confident that you had the fit
So in the end you just smiled
No sense...
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Categories:
care, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Dance Partnerswas thinking the other day
How things work in their own way
And decisions that you take
May be different once you wake
For the world will turn away
And the cogs interact without your say
For decisions can hold...
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Categories:
life, work,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Old Swimming HoleWas a swimming hole down south
where the bullheads chewed your feet,
Though there's no need to worry
if you didn't go too deep.
There were no steps to...
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Categories:
high school, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
VoicesMom, Dad, I hope you are doing well.
Because honestly I am going through hell.
And I don't expect you to understand.
Because NOBODY else can.
I can't even say that I'm fine.
Because honestly that's another line.
Another line that...
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Categories:
life, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
A Prayer
A Prayer For K. S.
Written: by Miracle Man
5/12/2024
Sometimes, life seems to just float along,
but we perceive in the balance life hangs.
It’s these times that faith must be strong,
and pray deliverance from unknown...
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Categories:
faith, god, life, sick,
Form: Quatrain
Here We Go AgainWhat is going to take our legislators to put in safe gun laws
The ones we have on the books in most states are so deeply flawed
Everyone should have the rights to defend their homes
But assult...
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Categories:
life, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Puzzle
Categories:
life,
Form: Monoku
DecisionsDecisions that we make every day will shape our future to come
So many thoughts float around in our heads , we need to sort out the ones to pick from
When you get up in the...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Rhyme
LIFEL ong or short
I nspirational or not
F amous or obscure
E veryone has their lot
...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Acrostic
MOTHER'S DAY 2024
Mother: The holy ground out of which love and life sprang!*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
12 May 2024
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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MOTHERS OF THE WORLD!
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Categories:
life, love, mother,
Form: Monoku
A Farmer's LifeWe picked out the crops
and then set the seeds;
We prayed for the rain
that they would soon need.
We battled the winds
...
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Categories:
life, work,
Form: Rhyme
Life in the EndLive in the end
In the End. At the last moment. Zero. No more time
No time. It’s finished, past my life. Death is knocking
Death is saying, Vilmos, no more time, but stay alive
I am still alive,...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Free verse
Delusion
The assigned unseen lamp hidden somewhere,
someone kindles for you when you’re made to arrive.
Unperceived, it creates reflective beam of contemplation,
illumines the pathway of your destined journey.
The free will you make as the mental mural...
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Categories:
analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
A Place Not Meant To Be: 14#14: Revelations 23:1
Human chain meant Starman ... breathing room trips,
H**** sapiens chose ... plus naught minus,
the apocalypse ... opts total eclipse,
self-acquaintance, he splits us, Linnaeus,
Con temporaries times, countdown it chills,
Adolph & Stalin it ticks and...
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Categories:
life, bible, creation, earth, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Taking The Guesswork Out Of PromiseMy
candle
said to me
soon I will rest
for giving you my best
as I have melted my girth
as the wick wanes in my worth
I will flick away my ember
and lastly, remember
the time when you
light up my life...
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, imagery, life,
Form: Verse
Specific Types of Life Poems
Read wonderful life poetry on the following sub-topics:
adventure, carpe diem, courage, depression, education, family, funny, future, happy, heartbreak, introspection, journey, love, paradise, rhyme,
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Definition | What is Life in Poetry?
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