Life Poems

Popular Life Poems
Gone Fishin'
by Delmar Pepper

I've finished life's chores assigned to me,
So put me on a boat headed out to sea.
Please send along my fishing pole
For I've been invited to the fishin' hole.

Where every day is a day to fish,
To fill your heart with every wish.
Don't worry, or feel sad for me,
I'm fishin' with the Master of the sea.


......

Continue reading
Disabled
by Wilfred Owen

He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,
And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,
Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park
Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,
Voices of play and pleasure after day,
Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.

About this time Town used to swing so gay
When glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees,
And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim,-

......

Continue reading
Written In March
by William Wordsworth

The cock is crowing,
The stream is flowing,
The small birds twitter,
The lake doth glitter
The green field sleeps in the sun;
The oldest and youngest
Are at work with the strongest;
The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!

......

Continue reading
London, 1802
by William Wordsworth

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour;
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:

......

Continue reading
Youth And Age
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying,
Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee -
Both were mine! Life went a-maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,
When I was young!
When I was young? -Ah, woeful When!
Ah! for the change 'twixt Now and Then!
This breathing house not built with hands,
This body that does me grievous wrong,
O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands

......

Continue reading
Recent Life Poems
101. Run With Me
by Kea Campbell

Will you sit in in the dim, sleeplessness with me, with our circadian rhythms in sync?
As the warm-toned lamp paints behind printed stories— coated blonde on cream.
Tired yet upright, side by side, until we start to dream. Then hand in hand, wrapped from behind, bound in comfort and security.

Together, could we gaze upon every set that the sun will stream?
Where we dissolve into merely breaths and heartbeats.
From the gravel or grass or dirt beneath our feet, to the tallest skyscraper roof in any city.

Will you rise to each dawn's break and wake endlessly next to me?
So in sync, wirelessly, effortlessly, naturally.

......

Continue reading
98. Wonders of My World
by Kea Campbell

The entire world is in our back pockets. 
Our perceived worth is in the other. 
 
Condensed into a hand-size machine, everything humanity has ever seen. My head aches as technology abuses my brain chemistry. 
My eyes burn from blue light, consumed by the escape. Interesting how our race is so distant, yet all in the same place.
This is not self-harm, but we are harming ourselves.
Our friends, foes, futures, and forsaken mental health. 
 
In the other pocket, a piece of metal framed in colored plastic. With or without it, might determine our health and lavish.  
A medium between what we have and what we owe. A representation of our will in the form of an 8 to 12 digit code. 

......

Continue reading
Long Breaths
by Stewart Watkins

Present
in the moment,
Listen to the whisper.
A sweet resonance deep within.
Slow breaths and centering
now, cometh peace
the GIFT

Continue reading
why the hues of a cloud turns
by Ella Sophia

walking through sunset
vividly i see a beauty if forms
i breathe and think — inhaling the dirty air
which brushes past against my skin
envisaging a life that one may please
to have . . .

all stones crushing beneath my feet
nothing i feel but a heart-clenching sore
misty-eyed as i reminisce

......

Continue reading
Poverty is expensive
by Amy Michelle Mosier

Poverty is expensive
To those already poor -
Costing their time, wages

And spirit, yet they live
A hopeful porter
In their villages -

Subject to elitism.
I, for one, never

......

Continue reading
Popular Poetry Topics
Popular Famous Poets about Life
  • Robert William Service
    Robert William Service (130 poems about Life)
    January 16, 1874 / Preston - September 11, 1958
  • Saadi Shirazi
    Saadi Shirazi (118 poems about Life)
    Sa'di] (1814-1291 / Iran
  • Edgar Lee Masters
    Edgar Lee Masters (98 poems about Life)
    23 August 1868 – 5 March 1950 / Kansas / United States
  • Emily Dickinson
    Emily Dickinson (92 poems about Life)
    10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts
  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (80 poems about Life)
    5 November 1850 - 30 October 1919 / Johnstown Center / Rock County / Wisconsin
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (70 poems about Life)
    6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861 / Durham / England
  • Walt Whitman
    Walt Whitman (62 poems about Life)
    31 May 1819 - 26 March 1892 / New York / United States
  • Thomas Hardy
    Thomas Hardy (45 poems about Life)
    2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928 / Dorchester / England
  •  Mathilde Blind
    Mathilde Blind (45 poems about Life)
    1841 - 1896 / Germany
  • Thomas Moore
    Thomas Moore (30 poems about Life)
    28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852 / Dublin
Popular Poets about Life From Members