Poems about Life Struggles
#LifeStruggles
Poems about life when things get tough, with difficult decisions to make or feeling like life is falling apart. Here you will find a range of life struggles expressed through poetry.
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Ode To Misery
I’m a stone in a world of flowers
the curious call of moors,
the old crow language
of wings circling
their ancient dead
peat bodies rotting beneath the weight
of seventies murder. The swaying
New Romantics surrendering to the dark.
I am grey beaches in homeless overcoats,
banshees of Tudor shipwrecks
shaking bone rattles in violent storms.
I am poverty
and steel
and recklessness
an IRA wound on a city wall; coal crowns
of Thatcherite rule haloing unforgiving
stomachs of shoeless...
the curious call of moors,
the old crow language
of wings circling
their ancient dead
peat bodies rotting beneath the weight
of seventies murder. The swaying
New Romantics surrendering to the dark.
I am grey beaches in homeless overcoats,
banshees of Tudor shipwrecks
shaking bone rattles in violent storms.
I am poverty
and steel
and recklessness
an IRA wound on a city wall; coal crowns
of Thatcherite rule haloing unforgiving
stomachs of shoeless...
#grief
#LifeStruggles
#ghosts
#despair
#Britain
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Re-Turn...To Eden
Rain..poured down
Sensing there was a draught
I needed to somehow About Face
Find a way to retrace my steps
Sift through muddied Sand
Recover lost Bones
Hone and Honor God's gifts
Upset the Apple-cart
As a Dust-Crafted Man Created
Apart from.....
Sensing there was a draught
I needed to somehow About Face
Find a way to retrace my steps
Sift through muddied Sand
Recover lost Bones
Hone and Honor God's gifts
Upset the Apple-cart
As a Dust-Crafted Man Created
Apart from.....
#LifeStruggles
#God
#learning
#philosophical
#prayer
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The Prayer
#sadness
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#despair
#prayer
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For Hire-one seat seeking bums.
On a packed train,heaving bodies,stand face-to-face, facing the taste of breath,of each squashed up,sweet smelly bodies. On their way to slave work.
Every seat was taken.
Except,
For the one next to me.
No-one seemed to want to sit down.
At every stop,each passenger that boarded,
first looked at me,
then at the vacant seat.
Their bodies contorted,rigamortise
I began to wonder if it was me.
With my inquisitive broad nose.
(Inherited from my family.)
I delicately,With stealth like precision, ...
Every seat was taken.
Except,
For the one next to me.
No-one seemed to want to sit down.
At every stop,each passenger that boarded,
first looked at me,
then at the vacant seat.
Their bodies contorted,rigamortise
I began to wonder if it was me.
With my inquisitive broad nose.
(Inherited from my family.)
I delicately,With stealth like precision, ...
#rejection
#LifeStruggles
#ignorance
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Messenger
The likes of no one draw near
Times of change, a growing fear
Upon the ocean my dreams all died
Ever since the full moon rises the tide
Watching the world precisely through my lens
Famine & Poverty will never end
Times of change, a growing fear
Upon the ocean my dreams all died
Ever since the full moon rises the tide
Watching the world precisely through my lens
Famine & Poverty will never end
#LifeStruggles
#pollution
#water
#rhyming
#poverty
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Bullshit
Why is fake news?
Called fake news?
In the good ole' days
'We' used a more direct approach
It was simply called bullshit
And was oft used as a pronoun
Normally associated with certain individuals
Known for speaking untruths, aka lies
Such as 'bullshit Bob' etc
I did know someone
Who called themselves bullshit Dave
Or whatever his name was
But i kind of respected him for that
For his honesty
About his dishonesty
But then again
Maybe he was bullshitting
About being a bullshitter
Nice...
Called fake news?
In the good ole' days
'We' used a more direct approach
It was simply called bullshit
And was oft used as a pronoun
Normally associated with certain individuals
Known for speaking untruths, aka lies
Such as 'bullshit Bob' etc
I did know someone
Who called themselves bullshit Dave
Or whatever his name was
But i kind of respected him for that
For his honesty
About his dishonesty
But then again
Maybe he was bullshitting
About being a bullshitter
Nice...
#politics
#LifeStruggles
#honesty #deception
#honesty #deception
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Daze Dreaming
You can try & scream for change
Higher officials suck
Day to day life drains you dry
Nobody gives two fucks!
Professional Castigation
A disbelieving eye
Drug Free America won’t occur
Supply & demand until you die
People here are dazed
Epidemic of handling life
Drunk to remember tomorrow
Buried five feet under tonight
Higher officials suck
Day to day life drains you dry
Nobody gives two fucks!
Professional Castigation
A disbelieving eye
Drug Free America won’t occur
Supply & demand until you die
People here are dazed
Epidemic of handling life
Drunk to remember tomorrow
Buried five feet under tonight
#politics
#LifeStruggles
#alcohol
#drugs
#ignorance
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MAD (5-7-5 Senryu Acrostic)
Mutually
Mad
Assured
sanity
lost
Destruction
Certain
by Jemia
Mad
Assured
sanity
lost
Destruction
Certain
by Jemia
#war
#LifeStruggles
#LifeChangingMoment
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Life Inside a bedspread
It started in the half-light,
too cold to accept morning
waiting for footsteps on the stairs,
someone else to set the fire.
I stared into the deep weave
of my candlewick blue waves.
The threads opened as I fell through
landing soft and sickly, coughing
away my school days.
All left behind as my travels began,
chased and often eaten by giant dust mites,
sailing rivers of spilt milk on rafts of cornflakes,
running for cover in showers of spittle.
I became the map reader of myself
counting to...
too cold to accept morning
waiting for footsteps on the stairs,
someone else to set the fire.
I stared into the deep weave
of my candlewick blue waves.
The threads opened as I fell through
landing soft and sickly, coughing
away my school days.
All left behind as my travels began,
chased and often eaten by giant dust mites,
sailing rivers of spilt milk on rafts of cornflakes,
running for cover in showers of spittle.
I became the map reader of myself
counting to...
#childhood
#LifeStruggles
#illness
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Generation Snowflake
A snowflake is a self-absorbed, entitled, overly emotional individual.
Whose to blame?
Children born after 1980 received a consistent message from adults: life is dangerous.
Adults/Parents will do everything in their power to protect you from harm, not just from strangers.
They describe how their childhood itself has changed greatly during the past generation.
Many Baby Boomers and Gen Xers can remember riding their bicycles around their hometowns, unchaperoned by adults, by the time they were 8 or 9 years old.
In the hours...
Whose to blame?
Children born after 1980 received a consistent message from adults: life is dangerous.
Adults/Parents will do everything in their power to protect you from harm, not just from strangers.
They describe how their childhood itself has changed greatly during the past generation.
Many Baby Boomers and Gen Xers can remember riding their bicycles around their hometowns, unchaperoned by adults, by the time they were 8 or 9 years old.
In the hours...
#LifeStruggles
#motivational
#inspirational
#uplifting
#culture
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Josh.
Water is still
I love the rains
☔
Of
Hutchinson.
Murphy.
Mackintosh.
Macchiato.
Lyons of bengal.
I love the rains
☔
Of
Hutchinson.
Murphy.
Mackintosh.
Macchiato.
Lyons of bengal.
#LifeStruggles
#rebellion
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The Revenant
I've been revving it.
Oh I've been driving.
I've been saying -
"Oh sweet lady.
I'm out of action.
I'm lost directions.
I'm head over heels,
I'm fucking face through the windshield
I'm shattering.
I'm insignificant"
I've been climbing
I've been meaning
I've been meaning to ask you this
What is it that finds you driving
my way
In the midst of destruction?
It's always the same
Oh I've been driving.
I've been saying -
"Oh sweet lady.
I'm out of action.
I'm lost directions.
I'm head over heels,
I'm fucking face through the windshield
I'm shattering.
I'm insignificant"
I've been climbing
I've been meaning
I've been meaning to ask you this
What is it that finds you driving
my way
In the midst of destruction?
It's always the same
#love
#LifeStruggles
#sexy #Romanticism
#sexy #Romanticism
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DU Poetry : Poems about Life Struggles