Poems about life

• Oh, The Unfortunacies

  maddened with rage over stale fruit-loops and the overbearing volume of an early 90’s sitcom, these momentary lapses in judgment are the only effective means of medication to the metronome in my head / / ticking. ticking. ticking. / / and wait

  by iloinen 98 words, on Dec 19 1:32 AM 2008. In Angst, Life, Personal, Thoughts
• We are all Prawn Crackers

  We were sucked in / as we sat down / in their solid brass chairs / the decor was extravagant / the comfort was incredible / the waitress

  by rhetorica 290 words, 2 comments, on Dec 18 11:52 PM 2008. In Life
• Lets be friends

  by rhetorica 397 words, 2 comments, on Dec 18 6:30 PM 2008. In Adult, Life
• Silence

  A feeling / comes to me / a feeling of / ever-lasting / / I don't quite / understand this / But my soul is saying: / "it's better to be

  by bigcoolyo 124 words, 2 comments, on Dec 18 5:17 PM 2008. In Life, Personal, Sad, Thoughts
• Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

  Just another day awoken, / / Unwillingly, by the call of responsibility / / Still we roll out of our beds, / / Dreading the day ahead. / / / / Just another day working / / For what, exactly, one wonders? / / Progress e

  by NoEscapingTheWall 197 words, 2 comments, on Dec 18 3:36 AM 2008. In Angst, Free verse, Life
• Every Step is a Centimeter

  by Nocturne 104 words, 9 comments, on Dec 17 9:41 PM 2008. In Sad, Spiritual, Life, Personal, Nature, Death
• I Miss You Brother

  Brother your soul is fading, / Into the darkness of this life. / Why do you have to leave? / Leaving me, your children and wife / / You wh

  by The Distant Unknown 104 words, 18 comments, on Dec 17 5:31 PM 2008. In Loss, Family, Sad, Life
• We Made Art

  by rhetorica 137 words, 8 comments, on Dec 16 7:19 PM 2008. In Adult, Life, Humor, Sad, Society
• The art of living

  There comes a time in which i say / is it worth it, this battle fought on earth? / Armies collide, innocent blood washes away / It seems th

  by mooon 174 words, 2 comments, on Dec 16 7:10 AM 2008. In Life
• In My Sleep

  My heart beats well-guarded secrets / The blood in my legs like cooling-off steel / my head like a screened-in pen / feathers of sea gulls fly / I am one with all who take to the sea / from the mouth of the mississippi river tonight / / alo

  by Goin 2 Ashes 204 words, 1 comment, on Dec 15 9:02 PM 2008. In Angst, Dark, Free verse, Life, Society, Sad, Thoughts
• In a Flash

  In a Flash / / Memories of my life passed before my eyes / like a movie compiled of flashbacks / It began with the day of my birth / Premature. A miracle if she lives / I heard but did not understand / / I also did not understand my pain

  by Brian Balzer 413 words, 22 comments, on Dec 15 7:37 PM 2008. In Dark, Life, Sadness. Reward
• I Will Run

  I hit the ground running / Never stopping to look behind / What there's to lose? / If I fall I stand back up / / Who can hold me down, I'm

  by The Distant Unknown 109 words, 7 comments, on Dec 15 6:04 AM 2008. In Free verse, Hope, Life, Thoughts, Inspirational, Friendship
• Forget Me

  I shall be leaving you now / These feelings I will not allow / I am in the forgotten distance / Where life has no existence / / Watch me leave like the nights sky / Being chased away without goodbye / Forget the person that you knew / Th

  by The Distant Unknown 76 words, 4 comments, on Dec 14 9:24 PM 2008. In Rhyme, Sad, Life, Thoughts
• Julie (Prose)

  by rhetorica 2392 words, 4 comments, on Dec 14 9:15 PM 2008. In Adult, Life, Love
• What's Wrong With Women

  Even though you say no / You always say yes / My guess is you just don't believe in your self worth / But Believe me your more important th

  by Zer02003 271 words, on Dec 14 12:19 PM 2008. In Life, Love, Thoughts
• Truth Or lies...?

  This is what you accomplish when you lie.

  by shortshortcake 428 words, on Dec 14 2:25 AM 2008. In Sad, Love, Life
• Stranded

  Sound of cars whizzing past / The smell of smoke and concrete / Right in the middle of it all / An old leather shoe lay / Neglected, forgotten / Departed from its sole mate / Expecting nothing, receiving nothing / Desolate under the midday

  by eniarrol 44 words, 3 comments, on Dec 13 10:20 PM 2008. In Acrostic poetry, Thoughts, Life
• You are so beautiful to me

  No one does all things perfect
  We can daily - plainly see...
  But I love you, and I miss you

  by s0urce 97 words, 3 comments, on Dec 13 9:36 AM 2008. In Love, Life, Rhyme, Friendship
• Never Again

  Should I change my heart tonight / Because I think I'm losing the fight / Trying to see the hidden truth / Unable to move because of youth / / Falling into depths of despair / Feeling like no one is there / You left in the dead of night

  by The Distant Unknown 97 words, 6 comments, on Dec 13 6:24 AM 2008. In Rhyme, Sad, Life, Picture inspired, Loss, Lost love
• Emo

  Emo was a / pitiful / saddo / schitzo / depresso / so he commited / suicido / with a razor / bladeo / / At the / funeralo / his / m

  by rhetorica 112 words, on Dec 12 9:05 PM 2008. In Humor, Life, Weird
• Change

  It comes like the season fall / Hear its voice suddenly call / Like a distant gentle breeze / Quietly coming to silently cease / / Oh, who

  by The Distant Unknown 70 words, 4 comments, on Dec 12 6:39 AM 2008. In Rhyme, Thoughts, Life
• War

  War.

  by LifeIsIronic 168 words, 9 comments, on Dec 12 4:10 AM 2008. In Life, Society
• The Game

  by Goin 2 Ashes 101 words, 3 comments, on Dec 11 6:56 PM 2008. In Adult, Dark, Free verse, Life, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts
• Mail this to Daddy

  Mama mail this to Heaven
  So he can find his way back home

  by s0urce 222 words, 11 comments, on Dec 11 7:39 AM 2008. In Love, Kids, Life, Lyrics, Poem, Sad, Spiritual
• The Stairs

  Staring up at the high elevation, / Here I am immobile, / My legs, extremely sore / From the long distance run, / My goal is to reach the top. / / As my foot take the first step, / My arms grab hold of the railing, / To hold and support m

  by HikaFuUmiShiOuRi 141 words, on Dec 11 7:01 AM 2008. In Free verse, Personal, Thoughts, Life
• Imagine

  Many various reasons, / In different events and scenes; / Predestined for this occurrence, / No man can escape this fate. / / Every other second, / Of every other minute, / And in every distant unknown, / Faces are disappearing, leaving

  by HikaFuUmiShiOuRi 144 words, on Dec 11 6:49 AM 2008. In Free verse, Dark, Life, Society, Thoughts
• Jjamf

  O mother! / Allow no more strike befall you, / You deserve more than your think your worth, / Remove you mask full of scars, / Reveal the b

  by HikaFuUmiShiOuRi 122 words, on Dec 11 6:23 AM 2008. In Free verse, Life, Society, Thoughts, Personal
• Poverty

  I am everywhere in the world, / Both known and unknown to you; / Many would steal for me, / While some hustle, fight and kill, / Keep struggling away from me, / Go ahead, run away to suicide, / For those born inheriting me, / Often fall ill

  by HikaFuUmiShiOuRi 97 words, 1 comment, on Dec 11 6:17 AM 2008. In Free verse, Life, Society, Thoughts
• Self

  You don't control me / For I manipulate you. / / You can't understand me / Because I couldn't know you. / / You desire love / Yet won't even love me. / / You achieve nothing / If I have no determination. / / You runaway / In

  by HikaFuUmiShiOuRi 87 words, 3 comments, on Dec 10 9:30 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Free verse, Life
• Sally went to sleep

  Sally was four / she always laughed and smiled / she wore pretty dresses / and bows in her hair / she would skip and dance and play / she w

  by rhetorica 152 words, 6 comments, on Dec 10 4:39 PM 2008. In Life, Sad, Dark