Poems about Life

• A Coward

  Moonlight on the starless night was silver, / Shining on New York and little pair. / They were walking along the East River: / Guy, who was a fast Jamaican sprinter, / Tiny girl with funky afro hair. / / Guy, carried away with conversation,

  by DarijaZenawi 525 words, right now. In Contemporary, Life, Love, Society, Thoughts
• Soul vs Blade

  The music blares / From her dark room / Where she hide her secrets / So no one knows / / She'll wear long sleeves / To hide the scars / She tells so few / And trusts no one / / She holds her blade / With such great care / While t

  by Ceelfray 82 words, 8 hours ago. In Pain, Personal, Cutting, Sad, Life
• Again

  by Chaosophy 104 words, 2 days ago. In Dark, Life, Spiritual
• She is...

  She touches me in ways that you only hear of in story books, / And, she makes me smile so much that my face aches for hours, / She understands me more than I could ever hope to understand myself, / And, she took my pain, turned it around, and made i

  by MysteryManUK 260 words, 2 comments, 2 days ago. In Love, Life, Sad, Thoughts, Suicide, True
• Past

  by Lake Absence 140 words, 1 comment, 2 days ago. In Life, Trust, Personal, Past, Love
• The Jury

  Judging others
  That they be not judged.

  by algoressister 146 words, 2 days ago. In Angst, Contemporary, Dark, Free verse, Hope, Life, Pain, Personal, Society, Sad
• Anticipation

  You close the door
  Gently behind you,
  Turning your leprechaun gaze

  by algoressister 97 words, on Mar 18 7:47 PM. In Contemporary, Free verse, Life, Love, Personal, Spiritual, Thoughts, sensual
• The TV Screen in the Grantmoor Motel

  I wink at me...
  An incurable flirt.

  by algoressister 248 words, 5 comments, on Mar 18 6:04 PM. In Contemporary, Free verse, Humor, Life, Love, Personal, Spiritual, Thoughts, Sensual
• Empty..

  Shy away from the flash, scared i wont fit the screen

  by anas dead rose 139 words, 1 comment, on Mar 18 10:33 AM. In Dark, Life, Thoughts, Sad, Rant, Pain, Personal
• The Flock

  Driven to graze
  The pasture of complacency.

  by algoressister 118 words, 3 comments, on Mar 17 5:39 PM. In Angst, Contemporary, Dark, Free verse, Life, Nature, Personal, Thoughts, Society, Sad
• draw a picture

  ill draw you a picture, / ill draw it on my wrist / ill draw it with a twist, / ill draw it in red, / maybe even blue depending on the mood, / ill draw ribbons, / and ill draw hearts

  by XxX-strawberry-XxX 139 words, 1 comment, on Mar 17 9:45 AM. In emo, dark, pain, life, teen, personal, rhyme, more
• Amateur

  by evilroman 138 words, 4 comments, on Mar 16 4:09 PM. In Life, Adult, Humor, Erotica, Adult humor
• Feels Like...

  by annibokka 213 words, on Mar 16 3:05 PM. In Death, Life, God, Jesus, Devils, Suicide, Pain, Love, Help
• Url

  I felt you. / / Craved you, / / As my hands stroked your trembling skin. / / / / Breathed you in, / / Atop wrinkled sheets, / / As your face caressed the moonlight. / / / / I knew you, / / Didn’t I? /

  by RoisinDubh 65 words, on Mar 16 2:42 PM. In Pain, Angst, Life, Sad, Personal, Love, Depression, Loss, Lost love, Anguish
• shadow.

  its not fair for you / to hide it all / to cover your face / and never make the call / / im done with my assumptions / tired of them kicking back / im going to be quiet here / until you give me slack / / the things that i ima

  by kili-love 116 words, 1 comment, on Mar 16 2:28 PM. In Hope, Life, Love, Personal
• i never knew you

  i never held you i never saw you / i never heard your voice i never / knew you i never will know you / but i really do still love you / i was ready for you but someone / didnt think i was or i would have had you / i love you even if i never

  by XxX-strawberry-XxX 214 words, on Mar 16 10:26 AM. In life, pain, sad, dark, emo, free, more, teen
• her life

  she wishes she was a little kid again / because at times it was easier being 5 / then being 15 all she had to do was / be a kid and have fun / now s

  by XxX-strawberry-XxX 289 words, on Mar 16 10:08 AM. In thoughts, life, emo, dark, teen, personal, pain, sad
• Cassie

  My eyes are a camera / My heart is a fire / My brain is neurotic / My voice is desire / / My soul is all smoke / My tears are not rare / My hair is expression / My dreams are unfair / / My skin is just paper / My hair cuts like gra

  by faisca artista 101 words, 2 comments, on Mar 16 6:45 AM. In Beat, Life, Love, Lyrics, Personal, Rhyme, Spiritual, Cassie
• smudge

  how dare you look at me with that evil in your eye / even i can tell that you are full of lies / you love, you hate, you love, you hate / i refuse to be a victim of this unbearable fate / / the promises that have always seemed so genuine

  by kili-love 124 words, on Mar 15 5:57 PM. In Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Sad
• The Only Choice

  Cutting is my only choice, / I stand and chose the blade, / the one that will cut the deepest / and cause me physical pain. / Breaking free from numbness, the / spiritually dead. / The hopeless and the conquered, / tears I've never shed sinc

  by GraveSoul 126 words, on Mar 15 10:36 AM. In cutting, alone, anger, ill, sick, sad, torment, life, death, sucide
• I've Had Enough!

  Is that all it takes for the church to make / a case? / Leaving all things holy and attempting to / embrace, the evil, the dark and the dreary / while making our children weary? / Filling our heads with vicious evil lies, / the start of my dow

  by GraveSoul 189 words, on Mar 15 10:33 AM. In heaven, life, torment, death, god, evil, personal, anger, satan
• what do you do

  what do you do when everything you love disappears? / what do you do when the guy you have loved forever moves / when the kids you have practically raised have to move away? / what do yo

  by XxX-strawberry-XxX 224 words, on Mar 15 9:27 AM. In emo, dark, pain, love, life, teen
• Salem's Witches

  Nineteen of Salem's Witches, / I think of only one, the wife, / the woman, the heroine from whom / I'm proud I've sprung. / Alas! A cruel s

  by GraveSoul 430 words, on Mar 13 8:16 AM. In witches, dark, evil, death, family, religious, Salem, life
• I've Had Enough!

  Is that all it takes for the church to make
  a case?

  by GraveSoul 203 words, on Mar 12 5:19 PM. In Death, Devil, Evil, God, Heaven, Hell, Life, Sin, obsession, religion
• Heaven Shines (A Poem In My Dialect)

  This is a dialect I created. / / Hefonan seenen me'ya atsoon; glowan gifu ray done nowen. Nara, dera, baird'flight 'od...flowen, blowan se

  by GraveSoul 174 words, on Mar 12 3:51 PM. In language, dialect, life, heaven
• Summertide

  by Miss Tallulah Belle 188 words, 3 comments, on Mar 11 3:47 AM. In Thoughts, Personal, Life, Love
• Remembering Him

  by SecretKeeper365 211 words, 8 comments, on Mar 9 1:34 PM. In Sad, Personal, Rant, Pain, Angst, Life, Love, Thoughts
• Invisible

  Didn’t see it coming / Never had a clue / That someday, somehow / I would become invisible to you / / That glimmer in your eyes / It was n

  by brevilas 189 words, 1 comment, on Mar 8 5:00 AM. In Angst, Dark, Life, Love, Pain, Emo, Rhyme, Sad, Loss, Thoughts, Lost Love
• Platonic Allegiance

  by faisca artista 213 words, 1 comment, on Mar 2 9:15 AM. In Beat, Love, Life, Lyrics, Cassie
• Under Thumb

  Cold and empty. / This will break me. / Heaven save me. / Cold and empty. / Here beneath your feet / I'm waiting. / /

  by HelloMyNameIsJesus 21 words, on Feb 28 3:44 PM. In Dark, Spiritual, Thoughts, Pain, Life
• The Button

  by Windhover 216 words, 4 comments, on Feb 24 10:49 AM. In Adult, Life, Humor
• Still here

  Nobody ever listens; / Nobody ever cares; / Nobody ever bothers to look; / I'm still here. / / Still walking this long narrow moutain; / W

  by WrittenRay 187 words, 2 comments, on Feb 23 11:15 AM. In Rant, Rhyme, Society, Thoughts, Life, Free verse
• Give Me A Reason

  Give me a reason to smile because / The thought of you slipping through / My bare hands make me hurt / Deep down inside and / The ease doesn't help / The pain aching in my chest / / Give me a reason to believe / That your hope is still a

  by Winter Wolf 120 words, 4 comments, on Feb 23 10:57 AM. In Thoughts, Life, Love, Weird, Sad, Rant, Pain
• Aftermath

  by ckj2010 202 words, 2 comments, on Feb 22 11:04 AM. In Adult, Dark, Free verse, Hope, Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Sad, Thoughts
• War in Darkness

  I was always captive / Within your eternal grace / I was hurt and sad / Having lost my worldly place / But now I walk alone / In meadows of

  by The Distant Unknown 122 words, 3 comments, on Feb 21 7:53 AM. In Anger, Lost love, Fantasy, Sadness, Pain, Hope, Thoughts, Dark, Personal, Life
• blind love

  everytime he looks at me, / how can he not see, / my heart beats faster, / time goes slower, / he melts my heart, / piece by piece, / i dont want our eyes to part, / is image important, / when love is blind, / are bodie

  by thomson2015 70 words, on Feb 17 6:36 PM. In Love, Life
• The Clock

  by Miss Tallulah Belle 107 words, 6 comments, on Feb 16 6:11 AM. In Adult, Thoughts, Life, Love, Sad
• Love

  by Windhover 203 words, 9 comments, on Feb 16 5:32 AM. In Adult, Love, Life
• My Undoing

  Despair and chaos / Dwell in my soul / Left alone in darkness / Shivering from sadness / Each thought of her / Hopeless fear burns / It scars and sears / My blood taints the ground / My heart is lost / In

  by The Distant Unknown 94 words, 8 comments, on Feb 14 5:48 AM. In Angst, Dark, Free verse, Life, Personal, Sad, Pain, Lost love
• Unabiding

  If you ever want someone to listen, / I'll always be right there, / To listen to your worries, / To show you how I really care. / / If yo

  by WrittenRay 85 words, 8 comments, on Feb 12 11:19 AM. In Rant, Rhyme, Sad, Thoughts, Love, Life, Contemporary
• Maturing Innocence

  We can keep thinking that somehow light and love will become manifest out in front of us as if this life precludes Heaven adventures here, but seeking the light anywhere but inside seems just another form of distraction to fight and deny more disappointme

  by Jeffrey Pinetree 1128 words, on Feb 8 2:29 PM. In Hope, Life, Love, Personal, Spiritual
• Forgiving Spirit

  Who can know? / The face of love / A heartbeat in time / Warming the soul / / Can I take fly? / With my broken wings / Across the sea / To

  by The Distant Unknown 61 words, 3 comments, on Feb 7 7:36 AM. In Pain, Life, Love, Hope, Sad, Personal
• Shattered, Again

  She was dancing in the moonlight, / twirling freely under the stars. / She’d burnt her past in the fire / and let the ashes fly with the wind. / / Yet happiness is no more / and her soul stings where the joy once was. / She’s alone in the m

  by oxymoron270 151 words, 1 comment, on Feb 6 8:34 PM. In Free verse, Personal, Life, Sad, Pain, Rant, Depression, Sadness, Dark, Anger
• A Little Bathroom Humor

  by Saltaire 233 words, 8 comments, on Feb 1 11:40 PM. In Adult, Humor, Life, Personal, Rant, Society, Thoughts, Weird
• Covet

  by Windhover 70 words, 8 comments, on Feb 1 6:20 PM. In Adult, Life, Thoughts
• I Love You And Goodbye

  Have you ever felt like you wanted to go back? / Try again? / If I could tell you what occupies my mind daily, / I wonder what you'd say. /

  by Evaah 283 words, 6 comments, on Feb 1 4:28 PM. In Dark, Hope, Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Sad, Thoughts, Loss, Lost love
• American Kid (In progress)

  by Saltaire 2722 words, 7 comments, on Feb 1 10:33 AM. In Life
• Another Remembrance, For Ricky and Zack

  Four people. / One school district. / Two years. / A thousand tears. / / I can't believe you won't be there, Ricky, / To get extra points

  by annie leigh 131 words, 5 comments, on Jan 31 8:32 PM. In Free verse, Life, Sad, Friendship, Loss, Death, Musings, True, Anguish
• We've Lost Zack, Let Us Keep Ricky

  Don't take him away, God, / Don't take him away. / We need him to live, God, / We need him to live. / / Zack is already gone, lord, / And I hope that he's home, / But leave us with Ricky / For a little longer, please. / / God, pleas

  by annie leigh 69 words, on Jan 31 12:09 PM. In Life, Sad, Thoughts, Spiritual, Hope, Death, Sadness, Loss, True, Religion
• We Open Our Eyes Just To Close Them Again

  sleeping and awake / is virtually one / differentiating merely / by a factor of discomfort / maybe pain / / stress is now undefined / nonetheless / more apparent in the blood / than before / / inversely / level of thought / hit

  by i.Birkkjaer 55 words, on Jan 27 11:30 AM. In Discomfort, Life, Pain, Creativity, Body