Poems about Life

• My Papa's Waltz

  The whiskey on your breath
  Could make a small boy dizzy;

  by Theodore Roethke 18 lines, 30 comments
• This Be The Verse

  They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
  They may not mean to, but they do.

  by Philip Larkin 13 lines, 6 comments
• The Road Not Taken

  Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both

  by Robert Frost 19 lines, 85 comments
• 'Myself'

  I have to live with myself and so
  I want to be fit for myself to know.

  by Edgar Albert Guest 23 lines, 13 comments
• A Sincere Man Am I (Verse I)

  A sincere man am I
  From the land where palm trees grow,

  by Jose Marti 183 lines, 5 comments
• When Ure Hero Falls

  when your hero falls from grace
  all fairy tales r uncovered

  by Tupac Shakur 16 lines, 14 comments
• Woman Work

  I've got the children to tend
  The clothes to mend

  by Dr. Maya Angelou 33 lines, 9 comments
• The Great Hunger

  Clay is the word and clay is the flesh
  Where the potato-gatherers like mechanised scarecrows move

  by Patrick Kavanagh 778 lines, 4 comments
• Song of Myself

  I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
  And what I assume you shall assume,

  by Walt Whitman 1731 lines, 11 comments
• Verse

  Friends
  The old word is dead.

  by Nizar Qabbani 175 lines, 5 comments
• Dover Beach

  The sea is calm to-night.
  The tide is full, the moon lies fair

  by Matthew Arnold 39 lines, 21 comments
• Transfigured Night (Verklärte Nacht)

  Two people walk through a bare, cold grove;
  The moon races along with them, they look into it.

  by Richard Dehmel 88 lines
• Rosalie's Good Eats Cafe

  It's two in the mornin' on Saturday night
  At Rosalie's Good Eats Café.

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 404 lines, 23 comments
• Meg Merrilies

  Old Meg she was a gipsy;
        And liv'd upon the moors:

  by John Keats 42 lines, 1 comment
• Starry Night

  A creative heart, obsessed with satisfying
  this dormant and uncaring society

  by Tupac Shakur 14 lines
• Desiderata - Words for Life

  Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
  and remember what peace there may be in silence.

  by Max Ehrmann 52 lines, 8 comments
• U R Ripping Us Apart

  before u came the triangle never broke.
  we were bonded and melded as one,

  by Tupac Shakur 15 lines, 2 comments
• Miss Thompson Goes Shopping

  Miss Thompson at Home
  In her lone cottage on the downs,

  by Martin Armstrong 284 lines, 3 comments
• Spring & Fall: [Margaret, Are You Grieving]

  Margaret, are you grieving
  Over Goldengrove unleaving?

  by Gerard Manley Hopkins 14 lines, 2 comments
• Advice To A Son

  Never trust a white man,
  Never kill a Jew,

  by Ernest Hemingway 19 lines, 2 comments
• The Young Housewife

  At ten a.m. the young housewife
  moves about in negligee behind

  by William Carlos Williams 13 lines, 2 comments
• Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria

  Fine living . . . a la carte?
      Come to the Waldorf-Astoria!

  by Langston Hughes 45 lines, 4 comments
• Collection of Six Haiku

  Waking in the night;
  the lamp is low,

  by Matsuo Basho 24 lines, 8 comments
• Laugh and be Merry

  Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,
  Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.

  by John Masefield 19 lines, 65,535 comments
• Self-Dependence

  Weary of myself, and sick of asking
  What I am, and what I ought to be,

  by Matthew Arnold 38 lines, 3 comments
• Tiene el leopardo un abrigo (Verso XLIV)

  Tiene el leopardo un abrigo
  En su monte seco y pardo:

  by Jose Marti 20 lines
• Amor de ciudad grande

  De gorja son y rapidez los tiempos:
  Corre cual luz la voz; en alta aguja

  by Jose Marti 68 lines
• It's September

  It's September, and the orchards are afire with red and gold,
  And the nights with dew are heavy, and the morning's sharp with cold;

  by Edgar Albert Guest 26 lines, 3 comments
• Old Folks Laugh

  They have spent their
  content of simpering,

  by Dr. Maya Angelou 24 lines, 5 comments
• A Wish

  I'd like to be a boy again, a care-free prince of
      joy again,

  by Edgar Albert Guest 49 lines, 3 comments

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