Poems About Life

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  • Heavenward (1)

    by Oluwaseye Olayode Taiwo

    The beauty of life
    is not in how loudly we are remembered...

  • When the moon is the only sound, I hear.
    Can the sun and stars fill the empty in me...

  • I wonder?

    by patrick

    I don’t need the room, to make me pertinent.
    The straight jacket of public opinion...

  • Every time you deny the truth,
    every time you persuade yourself...

  • The truth of scripture is this:
    you were never meant...

  • O God, I have no excuse.
    I knew it was wrong before I did it...

  • Rip Me Apart

    by Ki-Eisha Rose

    I keep replaying
    Scenes I swore I buried...

  • Broken Pavement

    by Ki-Eisha Rose

    Scrolling through the shouting
    Everybody drawing lines...

  • The Braver Truth (1)

    by Oluwaseye Olayode Taiwo

    Honesty is not spotless hands
    or a mouth that has never trembled...

  • Two Natures

    by Oluwaseye Olayode Taiwo

    Two natures beat within my beast:
    One is foul, one is blessed...

  • In This Hall of Fame

    by Christen Kuikoua

    Oh name
    a field of endless contest...

  • In villages where bread was thin
    And grief still clung to door and bone...