Poems about Life

• Simple Chemistry

  Do a shot!!
  Tip the bartender well.

  by algoressister 173 words, 1 comment, 1 day ago. In Beat, Contemporary, Free verse, Humor, Life, Love, Personal, Rhyme, Weird. Reward
• Homecoming [a song]

  Verse 1: / airplanes masquerade as starts up high / we wish on them and wonder why / why our wishes never come true

  by Rachh 320 words, 1 day ago. In Homecoming, Love, Lyrics, Life, High school, Teenagers
• Marcus and Rita

  There once was a boy born hollow and vacant, / With skin made of bark, but nothing within. / His folks named him Marcus, Marcus the Giant, / For he grew to be tall with thick weighty skin. / / Because of his size, because he was hollow, / Bec

  by dirty clean poet 204 words, 1 comment, 2 days ago. In Fantasy, Society, Sad, Spiritual, Love, Life, Rhyme, Weird
• Closer To Reality

  Get close. / Now closer. / Into the mind of my lunacy, / and I'll tell you why we don't belong. / Because we are different. / and irrelevantly so / because the point is, / we don't exist. / It will all change / and if we dont change wit

  by soveryfragile 126 words, 2 days ago. In Dark, Society, Personal, Life, Thoughts
• The Wings of Horus

  The hills in autumn are hawk-colored. / The wind flaps and screeches through dry straw, / burlap and denim wait to be stuffed and faces pai

  by celestialpie 112 words, on Sep 4 2:04 PM. In Contemporary, Free verse, Life, Nature, Spiritual, Halloween
• The Sun is Purple

  Cross-legged, clairvoyant / Spots across the sky form the precursor to / this analogous grid / Speckles through pupils / as we spit colors

  by mr backwards 152 words, 2 comments, on Sep 4 8:50 AM. In Nature, Life, Weird
• The Price

  by gdb 282 words, on Sep 3 11:22 PM. In Adult, Angst, Contemporary, Free verse, Hope, Life, Personal, Society, Spiritual
• Hang the Thomas

  The thorny cheat, tricky beast laid a / Falsely famous phantom feast for the / Guv’nors jumbled, ruthless ensemble / Striking fear in the peasants, make them tremble. / / Shaking boots and legs aquiver / As the onlookers watch with a ghostly

  by Wacko Jacko 92 words, on Sep 2 4:26 PM. In Rant, Rhyme, Humor, Life, Weird
• Unveil the veil

  The mind is in vacuum / nonetheless there is something to pen down… / With the thoughts getting on and off / setting me in a chaotic sta

  by rhythmdivine 413 words, on Sep 2 4:31 AM. In Spiritual, Free verse, Thoughts, Life
• The Island

  You have islanded yourself / From our mundane mainland / Marooned yourself from hurt / Yet also left piece of mind behind. / / You sacrifice pure happiness / For feeling just alright / This island is a comprim

  by tanith 209 words, on Aug 31 10:09 AM. In Life, Personal, Thoughts, Sad
• Needs a Puppeteer

  Well, you see, she’s like a puppet; / Without someone sat beside her / Pulling her strings, she’s nothing / Much to say for herself. / /

  by dirty clean poet 112 words, on Aug 31 9:51 AM. In Personal, Rant, Society, Life, Friendship, Perception. Reward
• My Identity Thankful To My Recollections

  Flashing violently like some twisted horror show / Memories come and go only when I think. / I try to let people feel how I feel, let myself go / And all I want is to sink. / I am heartless without my friends, my real kin. / And without these pe

  by Johnaustinhickman 275 words, on Aug 30 7:30 AM. In Life, Hope, Contemporary, Love, Rhyme, Spiritual
• Promised of Loves Purpose

  / Purpose of Love / This love asphyxiates / the deepest segment of my soul. / Constantly re-written, love has been re-identified, re-defined. / The capacity and ability to love will selflessly take its toll. / I suspect love to be

  by Johnaustinhickman 138 words, on Aug 30 2:37 AM. In Meaning, Life, Love, Hope
• A Beautiful Bohemian Sound

  There is no a destination in which a greater truth / Can be found. / The universe seems too complacent with the idea / Of being aesthetically sound. / / Behind every corner, and beyond every heart / Are questions of wrong and right. / Yet s

  by Johnaustinhickman 286 words, on Aug 30 2:23 AM. In Society, Life, Originality, True Joy
• Routine

  This is our grey and dismal land; / So full and yet so bland / Filled with naked trees, newly bare, / Lining dampened pavements. / And clammy roads bear / Dreary cars carrying commuters, / Hang-dogged in the glare / Of early morning streetla

  by dirty clean poet 47 words, on Aug 29 1:42 PM. In Society, Life, Thoughts, Rant, Depression, Perception
• A Book Of Memories

  Hidden in the attic,all the way upstairs,is something very special,that I would like to share.My hopes,my dreams,old photographs,of good times and bad times that make me laugh.The joy of a hug,the thrill of a kiss,leaves me to remember the pure, simple bl

  by ktwages 80 words, 1 comment, on Aug 29 5:55 AM. In Life, Personal, Spiritual, Inspirational
• No Bones About It

  In some graveyard / all the bones look alike / leg bones, arm bones, / ribs, skulls, scapula’s / some might be bigger / or smaller / but all are / more or less equal / so President Lincoln’s bones / or Einstein’s bones / or J

  by dave ochs 74 words, 9 comments, on Aug 28 2:20 PM. In Life
• The Word

  They tell us the word
  They say Believe,

  by Capulet 92 words, 1 comment, on Aug 27 4:51 PM. In Life, Rant, Society, Dark
• The Passing of Humanity

  by Windhover 136 words, 2 comments, on Aug 26 6:38 PM. In Adult, Life, Thoughts
• Life... and all it's misery!

  Life / / Remember those very hard times? / / When you just wanted to curl up and die. / / You feel like your confined in a lonely box, / / Weighed down with heavy chain locks. / / Its times like these you wear all black, / /

  by zimgir165 132 words, on Aug 26 12:54 PM. In Angst, Personal, Life, Thoughts, Rhyme
• Sun's Moon

  Some sounds feel the need to shout / Aloud / Loudly / Truth you are the story / Exchanged for no glory / Liberated the die from / Lone diamond / Mental mentality lengthened far / Beyond beneath / Through

  by Delilah Benitez 174 words, on Aug 26 9:02 AM. In Free verse, Love, Thoughts, Life
• Harsh Reality

  Cuts & Bruses / Wins & Loses / Time & Space / PAIN / Shouts & Blows / Nobody knows / No one will ever / FIND OUT / Depression & Sadness

  by thunderstorm 74 words, on Aug 25 10:38 PM. In Life
• for Leah

  A spark is struck and love begins
  it glows brighter, and more fervent in time’s shifting winds

  by Spear-fish 178 words, on Aug 25 8:20 PM. In Love, Life
• Why

  Why am I here, in this place and time?
  What’s my purpose, or is it simply to survive?

  by Spear-fish 151 words, on Aug 25 8:11 PM. In Life, Spiritual
• Mystery

  The sum of the parts does not equal the whole,
  water, carbon, minerals and such
  

  by Spear-fish 155 words, on Aug 25 8:02 PM. In Spiritual, Life
• No Luck

  08-20-08 / / / / Another friend has come and passed, / / but our memories will always last. / / Hangin out with you was so much fun! / / Sadly I know that time is done. / / Oh man I miss my friends so much! / / I guess

  by zimgir165 126 words, on Aug 24 9:27 PM. In Personal, Rhyme, Life, Friendship, Loss
• Alacrity

  by talonix 172 words, on Aug 24 12:31 PM. In rhyme, life, adult, experience
• Cacoethes

  can't charm a snake with temptation
  listen to sounds of sensation

  by talonix 169 words, on Aug 24 12:25 PM. In angst, life, rhyme, women
• Massada Strength

  Heartbeat pounding in my ears / Legs unwilling to move for me / Sweat dripping from places unknown before / Throat drying up from lack of h

  by oxymoron270 119 words, 3 comments, on Aug 22 9:33 AM. In Free verse, Personal, Life, Hope, Rant, Thoughts, Perception, Inspirational. Reward
• Reality

  I suppose, however, that it grounds me in reality
  It displaces me from inside my mind

  by oxymoron270 99 words, 3 comments, on Aug 22 9:23 AM. In Free verse, Personal, Life, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts, Abstract, Musings