Life Slam Poems | Examples

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


forget not king warning

forget not king warning demonic 
danger incremental gradual liberal
nor genocide joey precedent 
nor dispensation donny cleansing
oligarchy authority false choice
g ford greater more effective evil
empire merrikka people subjects 
rejects will well being ignore
dream fruition arriving never more
guard commons free speech farmed
private sector extract boiled ready frog
politic elect thesbian culture war
tonies grammies oscars divide conquer
chopping chomsky consent manufacture
wealth income earth labor rare birth
despair lament pay rent higher 
proper response race both blatant
subtle kinder gentler totalitarian 
all planet people planted excluded
possible power economic politic
remote hemmed chemical psycho
social escape routes addict dead ends
abundant narrate nook craney cross
every color four bid three finger all pro
nouns nun since seeing poking stabbing
lids bins laden all gore beat rhyme
tapdancing tintinabulation embedded
robot tune ruin seesaw sooth soul life
sleep endless bow dark nestle loud
selah


My Body, My Temple

This is MY body. MY temple. MY fortress,
It doesn't come with permissions through the way that I dress.

You have zero rights to do what you please,
If I show some skin, it doesn't make me a tease. 

You cannot grab my cookie and expect to be safe,
You should however prepare to be clocked in the face.

As a woman who's been silent for way too long,
Nows the time to stand up and its time to be strong.

When I dress my body its for my own pleasure,
Not for you to go forcefully digging for treasure.

When I dress provocatively it is NOT for your ease,
It certainly doesn't mean I belong on my knees. 

I choose to dress in all sorts of ways,
Depending on what I'm needing those days.

To feel powerful, confident, sexy or comfortable,
Not for you to sit there and judge if I'm able. 

Women keep rising because we are unbreakable,
We come back harder, stronger and less amenable. 

You don't own me, my body, or my rights,
So stop trying to dominate the women who bring you life.

Shadowed Parts of Myself

I'm not sure when you left,
but my guess is, it's been a process 
from the beginning.
Maybe the moment you left heaven's presence
you longed for its essence,
and left unnoticed?
Or was it when your freedom fell,
taken from the grips of hell,
and all it taught you to believe about yourself,
and life?
Or maybe when the one you
felt could change all that,
did change all that,
and left himself?
So, so did you?
Or, was it when your dad left?
Or maybe when the very definition of God
was crushed under betrayal's menacing vengeance?
Your dependence on yourself was your downfall,
you know.
And now, there's no feeling left at all.
The more you left,
the more I was left wandering,
left wondering,
how to find someone who desires to remain in the shadows

Rest Your Faith And Resign It But Test Your Faith And Find It

If God is hateful
explain where love comes from.
If God is your equal,
define the body
and how each piece flows as one,
and recreate it.
If God is betrayal
convince me your life is done,
that you're not just undone,
but unfinished.
If God is pure punishment
explain replenishment,
recuperation
and recovery.
Your discovery of God is not set in stone
and neither is mine. 
So give Him some time to show you these rhymes
are more than mere poetry,
not solely words on a page.
Go on and gauge what the 'h' this means for yourself

Dear Poetry

If I missed you 
What difference will it make 
When I’m metaphorically stuck in this irony called life like a lost piece of a puzzle 

If I stopped scribbling 
Of what gain will it be 
Burying myself, my feelings and pain proving the world to be strong


Thinking You Are Alpha When You Are Mr Bean

Treating me like I’m lucky to know you 
when you are so lowly I’d rather be lonely 
here is a treat that I’m happy to show you 
you’re in my life and then do not know me 

deluding yourself in the view of your ego 
believing your better when you’re not my equal 
not saying I’m good but you are just evil 
thinking you’re better than all other people 

the world is a forest and you are a gibbon 
you see very little when senses sense within 
oblivious to all whilst selfishly driven 
you think you’ve got talent you must be kidding 

a child walking where adults are found 
unaware of what is found all around 
believing yourself through words you sound 
challenging people that will knock you down 

the ignorant bliss that you use as a shield 
you’re French at Agincourt found dead in a field 
what you have’s visible and clearly revealed 
you’re mentally ill with belief you are skilled

offering nothing but a personal dream 
of something you’re not and have never been 
of someone you think you are nobody’s seen 
thinking you’re alpha when you’re Mr. Bean!
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.

Premium MemberSLAM DUNK

Although I'm in a grim never ending funk,
Rising like the Phoenix will be a slam dunk.
I want to free myself of the sadness,
Rise above all the noise and the madness.
My goal is soar above the galaxy and stars,
no longer a prisoner behind invisible  bars.
If I don't shake off this profound abyss,
I will in turn forfeit a life of pure bliss.
© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.

Questions 4 Later 2 Answer

A person of substance who has morals and character
Having this about their persona questioned by someone 
Least of all someone completely lacking such characteristics 
Will can and would never ever be able to understand
Exactly what that would mean and do to someone who has 
It's like trying to explain to someone
What it is like to be loved and to feel loved
You either are or you quite patently aren't
2 individual all of which are people 
But are worlds apart in terms of individual feelings
And relative perspective on what actually 
adds any true value or meaning in life
Until in the very end eventually 1 finds oneself
Revisiting a dearly departed loved ones diary
Questioning realistically has all that has gone before
Really in fact bitten the dust 
Or just covered it up

It's Us

Life cant be bought on shops
Things change when people feel on tops
Our culture define who we are
Who we were 
Who we will
But life is a journey
The sharp ends meet
Politicians think we live to need
We need each other indeed
The rich are stupid to think they are timid

One Thing Is For Sure

One thing is for sure

I am smart enough to know

That the people

Who run us and our day to day lives

Are actually in charge

Are way far more smart

And more powerful

Than I 

Am or could ever wish to be

That is the reason they

And not I 

Are or ever will be

Ever in charge

As they way more

Devilishly , devious and clever

And why the only thing I know for sure

Is that nothing any time

In the near or not to distant future

Is about to change

As they make the rules

Which dictate and control

This so called game

We call life

Shark Life F D C Made Clear

Life ain't for the plenty

Instead it rather

Chooses to 

Extracts it kicks from praying 

On the mild mannered and the meek

Life is like a thief 

That seems to be 

It's one and only brief

And if you don't believe me 

Ask the ghostly sewer children

Lying in the fetal position 

With a blank expression

Both

Wondering and pondering

The eternal question

For one last time

Before they did

Why 
Oh
Ohh
Why

What

The hell did I do wrong

I wasn't even here that long 

Only to be and get told

Doesn't matter

Life ain't for the plenty

Only those who are willing

To take not only their 

Share

But everyone else's

As well

White Lies For Anothers Sake

If you think that life 

Is supposedly supposed to be fair

I can only presume you may have

Taken a wrong turn and ended up
in fools heaven

As again just to me 

It sounds to me like

You or whomever told you

Or lead you into believing that

Has never really actually been

Anywhere near there

But yes for definitely

This I can most honestly and truthfully say

If Frank Sinatra owned the right

To do things his way

Then this is my way 

Of preserving my state of mental health

Not joining hands 

And being lead blindly by the blind 

And yes I take no pride nor joy

For expressing this my view point

Out loud or in a crowd 

As would nothing more nor less

Than for the above mentioned

Statement of the world to be true

But due to the fact it isn't

And I see it quite patently ain't 

Id much rather choose 

Not to make it any further worse

By acknowledging 

And predicating this

Unholy lie

Premium MemberSailboat Log

Wind is blowing pretty hard. 
See why the hand holds  
Will lift you and slam you. Sometimes the boat leaves the water completely.
Your raceing around the deck trying not to be swept overboard. 
You are so soaked, wind chilling you to the bone.
Half filled with fear 
Yet the grin says I'm having the time of my life 
Make a mistake your dead
I have no care about dead. Doesn't matter to me. 
I'm alive.  Nature slamming me every way
Waves that lean the boat to where you swear the boats mast is almost touching the water each rock of a wave
What's crazy I can't swim a lick .
Don't care. Better my body on the ocean floor than ashes sitting forever on someone's shelf
You can sit in a couch feeling sad thinking life has past you by .
Waste away in sorrow
No thoughts on tomorrow
Or get yourself up go out and bring life to you
Like its said you live only once.
You live every day. 
you die only once
Your choice. Make the most out of what short time we get, or you waste away wishing. 
Yeah. Only you can make this choice

Life Is Like Waves

Life is like waves or problem 
Coming together with issues;
Difficult to predict or slam;

Hard to enjoy the sound of  the drum
When the captain of the ship losing control;
Life is like waves or problem; 

Waves come with sound which called "conundrum "
Dancers, musicians, spectators stump; no blame
Difficult to predict or slam;

Swimming in ocean, trying to survive the storm; 
Flying in the space ,  different plans  rise;
Life is like waves or problem.

Some people dancing ,others hubbub, hum ... 
humming  loudly for help , no body  care about them,
Difficult to predict or slam.

Life  blights  here and there , lukewarm and harm;
Hopeless people are  crying everywhere on earth ;
Life is like waves or problem;
Difficul to predict or slam.

March 16/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe Mussabwa Chris

We Can Work It Out

We can work it out

If not together

And all else fails 

Than surely alone 

Without suffering the total and
utter indignity

Of our loved one seeing our tears
of pain drain from our red cracked
blistered eyes

Whom will eventually trickle down
either side of our uneven listening faces

That cannot though best we may try to 
hide exactly how broken into countless
tiny pieces in actuality it is

Whilst still pretending to carry on
regardless as if we do not have a 
care in the world

And that's all well and good as long
as it is day and has not passed over
to night

Because unfortunately sadly then when
we eventually go to bed

The realization comes crashing in that
it is all but you and your head for constant
company

And the pair of you cannot for the life
of you

Work out anything as simple as 
1 + 1

Without them never mind you

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