Poetry about Life Changing Moments
#LifeChangingMoment
Pivotal moments in life that change the way we think, and the course our life takes. Here you'll find poems about life defining moments.
Lancerexford
Poem Published
Today 5:39pm
Today 5:39pm
The Day Aura Celeste Died
The day Aura Celeste died
I sat in the battered leather chair on the porch,
Damp from a careless hosing of the hanging plants.
I heard the Robin clucking his evening song.
I heard an unfamiliar bird, perhaps babies whining for worms.
As dusk settled
Two families of coyotes cried to each other across the valley.
The orange cat perched on his spot on the table, licking a paw and surveying the garden.
Nothing was out of place on this late spring day,
When the forest displays so many lush, vibrant varieties of green. ...
I sat in the battered leather chair on the porch,
Damp from a careless hosing of the hanging plants.
I heard the Robin clucking his evening song.
I heard an unfamiliar bird, perhaps babies whining for worms.
As dusk settled
Two families of coyotes cried to each other across the valley.
The orange cat perched on his spot on the table, licking a paw and surveying the garden.
Nothing was out of place on this late spring day,
When the forest displays so many lush, vibrant varieties of green. ...
#grief
#LifeChangingMoment
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Seth_
Seth_
Poem Published
Today 2:42am
Today 2:42am
Pitter Patter
Choking and silent
Staying quiet and docile
Fluttering out of the way
Pitter-patter
Patter-pit
Blinking off the dust
Realign and take flight
Chasing the smoke
Follow the light
Pitter-patter
Pit
Here am I
Guide me
Let me rest
Here I am
Appease me
Feed me
Choking and silent
Die to me and live anew
A worm in the dirt
Till the day you flew
Pitter-patter
Pittering away in the darkness
Safety or death is all i see
When all the light is...
Staying quiet and docile
Fluttering out of the way
Pitter-patter
Patter-pit
Blinking off the dust
Realign and take flight
Chasing the smoke
Follow the light
Pitter-patter
Pit
Here am I
Guide me
Let me rest
Here I am
Appease me
Feed me
Choking and silent
Die to me and live anew
A worm in the dirt
Till the day you flew
Pitter-patter
Pittering away in the darkness
Safety or death is all i see
When all the light is...
#LifeStruggles
#LifeChangingMoment
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LadyFancy
Poem Published
27th Jan 2023 1:54am
27th Jan 2023 1:54am
the difference between prospective and perspective is all in how you look at it
ballerina costumes could be skimpier
but for opera singers probably not
naked rhythmic gymnastics
would be more fun than just watching
ribbons fluttering
but naked Shot Put
not so much
staring at the back of the limo driver's head
is way better
Than staring at the neck of the guy who drives the crosstown bus
and watching Salma Hayak bending down to pick up whatever she just dropped (front or back)
is more entertaining than watching any guy you know (or I have ever known)
doing whatever he does best
...
but for opera singers probably not
naked rhythmic gymnastics
would be more fun than just watching
ribbons fluttering
but naked Shot Put
not so much
staring at the back of the limo driver's head
is way better
Than staring at the neck of the guy who drives the crosstown bus
and watching Salma Hayak bending down to pick up whatever she just dropped (front or back)
is more entertaining than watching any guy you know (or I have ever known)
doing whatever he does best
...
#LifeAsAWriter
#LifeChangingMoment
#LifeCycle
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Abracadabra
Poem Published
24th Jan 2023 7:00am
24th Jan 2023 7:00am
Crushed
Fate threw together
the school drop out
white boy with long hair
driving a cab to get by
and the skinny girl of color
who worked nights
at the Japanese club
too proud to take the bus
but love
only lasted a week
though their child
knows a lifetime
with no Dad
the school drop out
white boy with long hair
driving a cab to get by
and the skinny girl of color
who worked nights
at the Japanese club
too proud to take the bus
but love
only lasted a week
though their child
knows a lifetime
with no Dad
#LifeChangingMoment
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eswaller
Poem Published
21st Jan 2023 00:34am
21st Jan 2023 00:34am
Unknown Changes
Sometimes it is not as simple as leaving
Things behind in the rearview mirror as
I move forward, but that is what I have
To do; onward and upward to something
New around the corner with no grieving
Over someone I used to be. The topaz
Colored water called my name as half
Of me is terrified and the other is jumping
Headfirst into the waves of the unknown.
The waves of change that are at my feet.
Just take a deep breath and let it sink
Into my heart. This is what I have always
Wanted; an...
Things behind in the rearview mirror as
I move forward, but that is what I have
To do; onward and upward to something
New around the corner with no grieving
Over someone I used to be. The topaz
Colored water called my name as half
Of me is terrified and the other is jumping
Headfirst into the waves of the unknown.
The waves of change that are at my feet.
Just take a deep breath and let it sink
Into my heart. This is what I have always
Wanted; an...
#LifeChangingMoment
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cabcool
Poem Published
20th Jan 2023 6:32am
20th Jan 2023 6:32am
first wrongs—last rites
i don’t want to talk about
sickness and death
and funerals and things
for last rites
are the first wrongs
of those who belong
to adam’s throng.
in eden came first wrongs
and today we perpetuate
last rites
but what of the in-between
for from the first wrongs
to the last rites
...
sickness and death
and funerals and things
for last rites
are the first wrongs
of those who belong
to adam’s throng.
in eden came first wrongs
and today we perpetuate
last rites
but what of the in-between
for from the first wrongs
to the last rites
...
#death
#LifeChangingMoment
#LifeCycle #graveyard
#LifeCycle #graveyard
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cabcool
Poem Published
19th Jan 2023 6:14am
19th Jan 2023 6:14am
the winds of change
The God of love is greater
than the love of God:
Superior the Creator
to the love He gives.
The sin of man is viler
than the man of sin:
God's love saves the beguiler
from the guile he lives.
The winds of change more luring
than the change of winds:
For change is more enduring
than is constancy.
The death of life is steeper
than the life of death:
Closer draws life's grim reaper
with each breath i spree.
© Copyright 2023 January 18
by Clyve A. Bowen♫
than the love of God:
Superior the Creator
to the love He gives.
The sin of man is viler
than the man of sin:
God's love saves the beguiler
from the guile he lives.
The winds of change more luring
than the change of winds:
For change is more enduring
than is constancy.
The death of life is steeper
than the life of death:
Closer draws life's grim reaper
with each breath i spree.
© Copyright 2023 January 18
by Clyve A. Bowen♫
#courage
#LifeChangingMoment
#LifeCycle #determination
#LifeCycle #determination
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BatPowers
Bat Powers
Bat Powers
Poem Published
17th Jan 2023 1:00am
17th Jan 2023 1:00am
The Last Station
Smoke stacks rise in the distance
Never less we've been here before
Scent of horror on the tip of my senses
Railway cars filled with scorn
Unclenched of perceived accommodation
Train rail clicks the sound of disdain
Engineer's whistle blows
How we lost the site of humanity
Fill up the cars no tickets sold
Signs to protest the atrocity
No Matter
Inspector gets you on board
Soot in the...
Never less we've been here before
Scent of horror on the tip of my senses
Railway cars filled with scorn
Unclenched of perceived accommodation
Train rail clicks the sound of disdain
Engineer's whistle blows
How we lost the site of humanity
Fill up the cars no tickets sold
Signs to protest the atrocity
No Matter
Inspector gets you on board
Soot in the...
#LifeChangingMoment
#LifeCycle
#dystopian
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BatPowers
Bat Powers
Bat Powers
Poem Published
16th Jan 2023 4:13pm
16th Jan 2023 4:13pm
We deny you entry
Praying to a God
That can no longer hear or see
Clinging to this overwhelming anguish
Holding the gun in your palm
Squeezing upon its trigger
Bullets seeking flesh
Flying through the air
Do you feel relief
Marvel at what you have done
Placing upon another
Fear and terror
Knocking on a door to be let in
Not for safety
To spark out the fuse against the mass
Unload a beast
We deny you entry
...
That can no longer hear or see
Clinging to this overwhelming anguish
Holding the gun in your palm
Squeezing upon its trigger
Bullets seeking flesh
Flying through the air
Do you feel relief
Marvel at what you have done
Placing upon another
Fear and terror
Knocking on a door to be let in
Not for safety
To spark out the fuse against the mass
Unload a beast
We deny you entry
...
#dark
#children
#family
#school
#LifeChangingMoment
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RolloMartins
Poem Published
16th Jan 2023 10:47am
16th Jan 2023 10:47am
Eulogy at my friend's funeral
Eulogy at my friend’s funeral
My pen name will henceforth be known
as Mountain Goat, meanderer of the heights,
eater of oats, pawer after stubble: rastrojos de difuntos.
I am now learning Spanish--rastrojos de difuntos
comes from Elegía a Ramón Sijé» by Miguel Hernández.
Spanish is not the problem. I’ve gained a certain level
of competence, I guess, and just look up what I don’t know.
Rastrojos, for instance: it means stubble.
So, stubble of the dead.
The poet is the gardener of a grave. So, it makes sense,
in the end. I am...
My pen name will henceforth be known
as Mountain Goat, meanderer of the heights,
eater of oats, pawer after stubble: rastrojos de difuntos.
I am now learning Spanish--rastrojos de difuntos
comes from Elegía a Ramón Sijé» by Miguel Hernández.
Spanish is not the problem. I’ve gained a certain level
of competence, I guess, and just look up what I don’t know.
Rastrojos, for instance: it means stubble.
So, stubble of the dead.
The poet is the gardener of a grave. So, it makes sense,
in the end. I am...
#BestFriend
#heartbroken
#LifeChangingMoment
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Pinkdreams
Poem Published
10th Jan 2023 5:24am
10th Jan 2023 5:24am
Antipodal
i want to go to the Taj Mahal
to forget mistakes I've made
stupid things I said when i was 20
the job I was fired from
my inability to crochet
the man I should have married
perfect symmetry
is a treasure
the Taj Mahal has it
against a polluted sky
in a strange country
a billion people
many too hungry
to harbor neurotic thoughts
a former coworker
insufferfably pretentious
dismissed the Taj
as the world's most ornate body bag
he had many other stupid thoughts ...
to forget mistakes I've made
stupid things I said when i was 20
the job I was fired from
my inability to crochet
the man I should have married
perfect symmetry
is a treasure
the Taj Mahal has it
against a polluted sky
in a strange country
a billion people
many too hungry
to harbor neurotic thoughts
a former coworker
insufferfably pretentious
dismissed the Taj
as the world's most ornate body bag
he had many other stupid thoughts ...
#LifeChangingMoment
#travel
#MovingOn #healing
#MovingOn #healing
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Chuck
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
Poem Published
1st Jan 2023 1:15am
1st Jan 2023 1:15am
My New Year Me
I shiver
As the temps
Dip below the negatives
With this cold
I’ll be able to
Enjoy the warmth
Without hardships
I wouldn’t be able to
Enjoy success
Without heartbreak
I wouldn’t know
What real love is
As I embark into
This New Year
Different thoughts
And ways of life
Fills my head
I’ll continue to work
And improve myself
I have lots to learn
And failure I’ll endure
But I will
Shake it off
And try again
I will
Help less
Give a little more ...
As the temps
Dip below the negatives
With this cold
I’ll be able to
Enjoy the warmth
Without hardships
I wouldn’t be able to
Enjoy success
Without heartbreak
I wouldn’t know
What real love is
As I embark into
This New Year
Different thoughts
And ways of life
Fills my head
I’ll continue to work
And improve myself
I have lots to learn
And failure I’ll endure
But I will
Shake it off
And try again
I will
Help less
Give a little more ...
#identity
#LifeChangingMoment
#LifeGoals #SelfDiscovery
#LifeGoals #SelfDiscovery
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