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

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 short, long, best, and famous examples of life poems.
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...Read the rest...
Categories: care, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Dance Partners
was 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...Read the rest...
Categories: life, work,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Old Swimming Hole
Was 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...Read the rest...
Categories: high school, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Voices
Mom, 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...Read the rest...
Categories: life, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: faith, god, life, sick,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Here We Go Again
What 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...Read the rest...
Categories: life, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Puzzle
Life is one big puzzle- each year of your life is a piece...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Decisions
Decisions 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...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Rhyme
LIFE
L ong or short I nspirational or not F amous or obscure E veryone has their lot ...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member MOTHER'S DAY 2024
Mother: The holy ground out of which love and life sprang!* © Demetrios Trifiatis 12 May 2024 - HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MOTHERS OF THE WORLD! - ...Read the rest...
Categories: life, love, mother,
Form: Monoku
A Farmer's Life
We picked out the crops and then set the seeds; We prayed for the rain that they would soon need. We battled the winds ...Read the rest...
Categories: life, work,
Form: Rhyme
Life in the End
Live 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,...Read the rest...
Categories: life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: life, bible, creation, earth, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Taking The Guesswork Out Of Promise
My 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...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, appreciation, imagery, life,
Form: Verse

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Definition | What is Life in Poetry?


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