Poems about life

• Procrastination

  This repetitious occurrence, / Of a given simple task accessible for execution / And the habit of unwillingness to deliver, / Avoiding every possible means to accomplishment. / / Music ready for conducting, / Dancers eager to perform, / Act

  by HikaFuUmiShiOuRi 107 words, on Dec 27 10:12 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Life, Personal, Free verse
• Back Payment

  by rhetorica 290 words, on Dec 27 7:22 PM 2008. In Adult, Humor, Life
• The Sharp Hint Of New Tears

  Every day I sit back and watch you fight the pain / Acting like it just a game and / You can quit anytime or day / I am suffocating too because / I hate seeing you like this / You know you could always come to me / I will always be there to su

  by RainbowRawr 289 words, 4 comments, on Dec 27 10:29 AM 2008. In Personal, Pain, Sad, Thoughts, Love, Life, Friendship, Hope
• She's Dying Inside

  Standing there all alone / With no warm inviting home / She feels so lost / Like a chilling frost / / Sinking into her fragile heart / She

  by The Distant Unknown 173 words, 17 comments, on Dec 27 7:06 AM 2008. In Rhyme, Sad, Life, Anguish, Sadness, Depression, Pain, Loss
• I Remember

  I remember the days / Of the winters bliss / When you and me / Would never miss / / The snow falling down / From another place / Where our

  by The Distant Unknown 68 words, 4 comments, on Dec 26 6:14 AM 2008. In Rhyme, Contemporary, Life, Picture inspired
• Your Back

  I have grow since you left / I am no longer bereft / You drained my soul / My heart you stole / / So now it begins to beat / Even though you did mistreat / You return to deliver hurt / But now I'm truly alert / / To the way you walk

  by The Distant Unknown 77 words, 2 comments, on Dec 26 5:54 AM 2008. In Life, Personal, Rhyme
• Bonfire

  Flames burn red, we all stare / We're all sittin on broken lawn chairs / Her eyes content, her face still cold / He's got a cigarette, he f

  by Eastern 197 words, 2 comments, on Dec 26 1:37 AM 2008. In Rhyme, Lyrics, Contemporary, Life, Love, Personal
• Silent Resilience

  What am I / I'm what you never needed / Or what you never wanted / I will never be that guy / That addiction / I won't be your suspect / Or you resilience / I'm silent, but I can't shut up / Your eyes open wide / Don't ever shut them

  by Eastern 171 words, 2 comments, on Dec 26 1:33 AM 2008. In Love, Contemporary, Free verse, Life, Personal, Rant, Lyrics
• Sugar

  by rhetorica 199 words, 5 comments, on Dec 25 11:29 PM 2008. In Adult, Humor, Life, (i`m a woman)
• I Know That, Maybe...

  I don’t know who I am anymore / And it’s just not like me to feel this lost / I’m used to having things all figured out / I’m a control fre

  by oxymoron270 261 words, 1 comment, on Dec 25 2:38 PM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Life, Thoughts, Rant, Pain, Depression, Sadness. Reward
• Gone

  Gone / / / The man in the lighthouse is gone / It hardly seems fair / That he's no longer there / Though computers so sterile /

  by Goin 2 Ashes 135 words, 3 comments, on Dec 25 11:54 AM 2008. In Life, Rhyme, Spiritual, Thoughts
• So Hard

  Living life is just so hard / When you feel like the future won’t matter / And like the past will never fade / And the present just seems to worsen each day / / When crying to G-d to take it all away hasn’t worked / And believing that things

  by oxymoron270 126 words, 1 comment, on Dec 24 3:40 PM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Life, Thoughts, Rant, Free verse, Pain, Depression, Death, Sadness
• The Sky and My Kite- Edited

  I love to fly kites. / Carries my back upon wax-paper wings / to home where we would play marbles in the sand. / Looking up at the sky, / I

  by facethejam 99 words, 1 comment, on Dec 24 3:34 PM 2008. In Contemporary, Free verse, Life, Personal
• Just My Silhouette

  I am just my silhouette / Transparent and upset / ‘Cause a person once stole / What I called my soul / And since then I’m not myself / My p

  by oxymoron270 178 words, on Dec 24 11:57 AM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Life, Rhyme, Rant, Depression, Sadness, Loss. Reward
• heavy rain

  but one day i woke and i walked out into the street. there were no cars there were no people. i felt december breath against my chest and a summer sun that hinted across my face. these rays lit up a patch down south meeting in the west that spoke to me a

  by mufinhxc 71 words, 3 comments, on Dec 24 12:42 AM 2008. In Love, Personal, Life, Hope, Thoughts, Sadness, Depression, Sad, Imagery, Addiction
• In Your Absence

  In Your Absence / / / Music from the joys of loving past moments / Soon grows still in the quiet of night / I lie stretched out in the darkness / Inviting your shadow into my bed / I toss and turn feeling restless / Distracted as a sn

  by Goin 2 Ashes 102 words, 2 comments, on Dec 23 4:26 PM 2008. In Angst, Dark, Free verse, Life, Love, Sad, Thoughts
• These Ones

  It is approaching me / I gasp and pant / My heart in thundering / My mind walks between insanity and logic / Is it a curse or a blessing / Many wonder but find no reason / It comes without purpose / B

  by The Distant Unknown 270 words, 6 comments, on Dec 23 5:44 AM 2008. In Life, Free verse, Hope, Thoughts, Personal
• GOODBYE weeping Girl

  Once upon a time, / there was a girl / who was always afraid to shine, / but could never tell. / An outcast was her trait / An outburst was her mate. / She stood underneath the stars wondering, / was she desti

  by somuch2contain 113 words, 1 comment, on Dec 22 2:56 PM 2008. In Life, Spiritual, Abstract
• Letter to an African Man

  You must forgive my race / for what it has done to you, / but I would like you to keep in mind / / that it was not I, who raided your vill

  by Siaynoq 424 words, 10 comments, on Dec 22 2:08 PM 2008. In Sad, Society, Life, Spiritual
• Just The Way You Are

  I know you were raised with pain / That stains your life / Like the knife across so many wrists / The blisters of the burns on your skin / The bullet in his soul / The boy that might solve it / Being to far away to hold / With all of your

  by Zer02003 147 words, on Dec 21 8:51 PM 2008. In Life, Love, Rhyme, Society, Thoughts
• Life's Truths

  What do we truly seek? / Our lives are so busy. / We forget whats important, / Chasing fame, wealth and power. / / Our hearts become lost,

  by The Distant Unknown 100 words, 4 comments, on Dec 21 4:52 PM 2008. In Life, Free verse, Family, Inspirational, Perception
• Cardboard Lantern

  I answer the door to / five young Victorian orphans / singing Silent Night / then the smallest one / who has no teeth / drops her cardb

  by rhetorica 164 words, on Dec 21 7:21 AM 2008. In Life, Love, Death
• ~Christ Mass Murder

  by redbarchettadrive 291 words, 8 comments, on Dec 21 3:28 AM 2008. In Adult, Dark, Life, Rhyme. Reward
• For a Friend

  For a friend, just randomly spilled out

  by LifeIsIronic 262 words, 4 comments, on Dec 21 3:06 AM 2008. In Hope, Thoughts, Rhyme, Life, Lyrics
• Frozen waters of silence - broken

  Moonlight streaming through the open window / Reflecting off a lonely mirror / Illuminating the outline of your face / / Although blinded in darkness, / Your cold eyes still hold mine / A cold glare sending chills / Creeping throughout me

  by Nakatrea 126 words, 4 comments, on Dec 20 11:17 PM 2008. In Sad, Thoughts, Weird, Life, Love, Free verse
• Appalachian Christmas

  When the wind hurls howls / which sound like enraged wolves / soft clumps of snow / fall silently / over the edge of winter's world / where they disintegrate / to sparkling bits of sunshine / raining yellow snow flakes / down from h

  by Goin 2 Ashes 361 words, on Dec 20 8:55 PM 2008. In Contemporary, Free verse, Hope, Life, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts
• Goodbye To All

  My voices / I'll never truly know / If you were real or / I was schizophrenic / Did I only make you up / / Words upon a screen / Creating fleeting images / That flash before my eyes / Another part of my life dies / / As a freezin

  by Goin 2 Ashes 71 words, on Dec 20 3:21 PM 2008. In Angst, Dark, Free verse, Life, Love, Sad. Reward
• A Long Christmas Night

  'Twas the night before christmas, no snow no rain / I wondered how I came this far from home / Sand dunes sprawled like the wreck of a train / I lifted a cigarette to my mouth and dragged / / A taste of dust, blown everywhere / By the wi

  by Goin 2 Ashes 123 words, on Dec 20 11:14 AM 2008. In Free verse, Life, Thoughts. Reward
• The Winter Of Our Spring

  Now that the trees / have shed their once green leaves / and shiver in the cold / we can see what is gone / / abruptly we are frozen / in the late autumn days / left with our sad epiphany / the winter of our spring / / the li

  by Goin 2 Ashes 136 words, 2 comments, on Dec 20 9:20 AM 2008. In Angst, Dark, Free verse, Life, Love, Sad, Thoughts. Reward
• The Life of a Diaper

  by rhetorica 66 words, 2 comments, on Dec 20 12:45 AM 2008. In Adult, Life, Humor