Life Pain Poems | Examples

These Life Pain poems are examples of Pain poems about Life. These are the best examples of Pain Life poems written by international poets.


Premium MemberPress Pause

                The closer we became
                    the scareder I’d become

                 Inflicting pain
                    with the slightest look
                 No remedy in any book

                  One missed beat
                     a day, a night go by
                   Snarl at the other guy          
                                            
                  Pause now in the dark
                     ~ life is meant to be a lark


Premium MemberSir Who

Sir Who He's not a pastor but he has a congregation proves wicked changing faces His ploy, paint lives with gloom, judgement, ridicule and tragedy but the crafter of this ill will wants his portrait kept out of those equations They think they know, unaware and oblivious to the truth in burdensome weight of his misconstrued calculations.

Premium Memberpurgatory

How hard is my life?

Thorns minus any roses

The stings bring much pain

Premium MemberArctic

winter is home now
my mind the place I wander
ruby red regret
embarrassing memories
glaring back from the mirror
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.

Premium MemberMY MIND

It's parts of my mind that speak to me,  
A moment in life that felt strange.  
The situation I'll try to memorize,  
The fog taking over my brain.  

My mind began to become clearer,  
My vision was troubled and blind.  
The first hand that spoke to me  
Left my eyes in a bind.  

The pain became intense; the brain is numb,  
A sincere gift of death's present.  
There's no future in front of me,  
Just a swift stop of time, a slow descent.


Premium MemberOBSTRUCTION


Living death	
Never to feel
Owner 
of your breath
Never to feel 
Owner 
of your movements
Surviving in a life 
Not belonging to you
Surviving as a slave 
Craving to be free   

A life closed 
Never to use
Your talent
Closed to 
Your energy
A mind made into a wasteland
By the evil work of a human hand 
Unsurmountable obstacles in front

Imponderable mountain behind
Endless wait
Useless time

Chinese wisdom says
OBSTRUCTION
WAIT IN STILLNESS
“Teach me not to care
Teach me to be still”

Premium MemberSecrets of the Soul, a Story to be Told

"Verses in the Ash," is where my soul was born. Where hot coals singed me, as ashes covered my tiny body. My soul was, "Trapped in Your Pulse." This body has me trapped, as a helpless baby. "I am the asylum of your ache," in time as it goes by so slowly. "I taste your truth," the truth of life is bitter. "Where orchids dream," is a place I wish I could live. A place away from the hot ash and pain, in a place of beauty with pretty orchids.

Premium MemberLife Comes With Broken Promises

"What I have Learned about Broken Promises is Priceless." By Poet
As a young child, friends would make a promise. They would break their word, followed by hurt. The dating world was famous for this trick, as boys loved to break their promise. Did it make them feel powerful? Maybe! My dad was a very wise person, he never made many promises. Guess he knew the pain hiding behind words, words that were unkept are friends with lies. He would say, we will see or maybe. I knew if he had made me a promise, it was guaranteed to be done. So glad this lesson was learned as a child, thanks dad.

Premium MemberShadows

I sleep with shadows
hollow dreams of lustful death,
pleasure begets sickness.

Beneath my eyes lies doubt
begging, pleading for grace.

I walk with shadows
consuming objects, life forms, moments–
Illusions of control.

My image dissolves before I do,
my outline fades into absence.

I scream with shadows
giving life to the everlasting eclipse,
our shrouds staining pavements.

Wraiths of darkness rise and scatter 
like roots of a dying tree.
I answer to Shadow.

Light brings color and joy.
Looking down at the darkness I cast,
light has no place in my world.
© Seth Pina  Create an image from this poem.

Premium MemberXVII Hush Little Baby, Back to Sleep

We fought with monsters and became monsters fighting the insane acting out in strange displays dancing nonsense in a cave imprisoned by a thousand lies we designed to contain a willful child, and with hammer blows and the whips we made ourselves better slaves then the slaves who came before with fevered dreams drunken prose spoken lost and broken noses, broken skulls, broken bones tore through flesh, the fear, the fear, I miss my friends, those younger days, it seemed to me we would never grow old, tired. VIXI.

Poem 17 Note. . . vixi liber et moriar: "I have lived free and I will die free"

Premium MemberA Monster Called Life

Fair lady, look down, see me in this hole, 
beaten by a creature to be dreaded,   
this ill-made, unsightly, disfigured, troll,
conquered by a monster many-headed. 

The moment mother screamed and I was born, 
the beast's heads stared upon me filled with hate.
I pared an ugly one that was called scorn,
and left home when I could to meet my fate. 

Looming precariously from above, 
the brute left me here in my final hour,
delivering dire blows - first pain, then love.
Dear lady, please place a futile flower

as I bid farewell to the woe and strife,
and the monster, now dead, but once called life.

Premium MemberThe old sailor's story

You walk the way the wind blows

Or so the story goes.

You rode the waves of blue,

And lived a life with no clue

You blow smoke of tar

And drive a beat up car

You live in built-up walls,

Where twilight slowly crawls.

A fortress made of stone,

To keep yourself unknown.

You traded wind and sky,

To watch the world go by.

But rain taps on the window pane,

To remind you of the pain.

And the wind still knows your name,

Before you quit the game.

You throw the portal wide,

And cast the ghost aside.

Out where the blacktop gleams,

You wake up from your dreams.

You head across the bay,

To find a better way.

You turn toward the east,

The captive soul released.

The engine starts to roar—

You walk the way no more.

Premium Memberarthritis

Pain Pain and more pain again

it seems much worse in the cold and rain

Pain pain you are driving me mad

you are in joints I never knew I had 

You are in my arm then in my hand 

then my legs I can barely stand 

popping pills just like sweets

Is there nothing that this pain can't defeat

Please pain killers stop this pain 

So I can live a normal life again

The doctor said that it is my age 

help me doctor control my rage 

the doctor will say to me and he will say it to you

with arthritis there is nothing I can do

Premium MemberPain In Our Heart

Pain in my heart

Love doesn’t bother me. Never. I am afraid
My demonic life is sensitive, frozen in heart

No, can’t live this—horrific everything. Lady
Poison. I  want to be healthy. Stay, be a pain

Lady. Woman. My suffering heart. No need
You are a criminal. My walk. Wood. Hoped

I need ice. From your heart. Just a touch
I apologise, just, field, past, hope, our life

Life, I needed. Put me in the dark. Death
Best life. Be a shadow. A dropped. A pain

My dark. Just be. Our existence. The night
Hoped. Hoped. The hands, the hugs. Heart

I can’t stand
Can’t

Can’t
To live

I am sorry
For you

Without
Hmm

Pain in my heart
Still loving you

Premium MemberMy Heart Is A Secret Garden

My Heart Is A Secret Garden, where love and pain live and hide. Love finds pretty flowers blooming, as the bright sun peeks over the hill. The love that fills my heart and soul, coming from the many who love me, The pain from the rose thorns that prick my being, from those who want to hurt me. Oh yes, my heart is a a secret garden, exploring life and what it has to give.

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