best poems about life

Risk | Daniel Dror

You should risk everything. It’s worth it. No matter how bad it gets. Trust me. 
Not every day. Not even most days. Just those days when you really think it’s worth it. When it’s serious. When you could gain so much. 
Me. Mine. Most. Most things. Most of all. Trust. In the divine. Gamble. 
Gamble on hope. Hope is human. You are born of hope. 
I’m writing this and I don’t really want to explain all the uncertainty in my future. How things have changed in the last six months and how drastically that could change again and will change regardless of a good or bad turn out and the terms of a good or bad result and what even my life is going to be after all the dust settles after the fall out of a hundred megaton blast. And how even does a freight train hit you in the face at nine o’clock in the centre of a department store and forget your name and then it’s not a big deal and then the stove needs cleaning but it’s not your stove and you are playing risk and your name is changed and it starts with a capital L and your hair is red and a saint you ain’t and the girl you make friends with is starting to act differently and she’s got a hell of a crush on you like that one person in school who made you nervous to go anywhere alone because of the stories that people tell but when you grow up it’s just a movie and that movie is a rip-off of some other movie and the production is pretty bad but the acting is kind of amazing and they win awards but their careers go nowhere just a guest star on NCIS and…
 trust me. 
It was worth every moment that was stolen. You would’ve wasted it anyway. It was worth every penny spent, you wouldn’t have the opportunity you have now that you took the risk. 
It was worth the brain damage. You see the world in a new light. 
Not every day. 
Just those days. 
When you think. 
That it’s worth it.
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Third Marriage | Thomas Ode

He’s working on his
third marriage, the old
young man on the stool
next to me, sucking
down his burning vapors,
gargling bad omens,
telling everyone: Stay
alone as long as you can,
with a whisper of fear
when he says the word
Alone.

Morning Song | Cattail Jester

Poised at the edge
listening to active
birdsong
Am I making the right
choice? Turning another
bend in the road
of life.
Exciting and stressful
simultaneously. Time
to be brave.

Ambition | JD DeHart

I watch the way
ambition makes the people
I once tried to help
crumble
I don’t aim the same
way
I don’t reach the same
way
it’s probably hard these
days to tell exactly where
I’m reaching at all.
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You Must Be Broken to Mend | James Diaz

What to do with the fence
around your place
the hard rain
that won’t end
the body
bearing down
on its poison
is there a broken bone
in your speech?
Are you only
your worst moment?
And what about the next life,
would you even want it?
Can I just tell you
none of us know
what we’re doing here
none of us
are getting it
right
some of us are good dancers
and others are still learning
how to walk,
be here–
love–
not die.

The Downside | Judy Moskowitz

Will you feel satisfied
when your belly is full
savoring the juices
swirling around in your mouth
as it coats your tongue in lust
for ambition has a taste
as sumptuous as Prime rib
and Caviar
desire begins to take over
as your primary driver
you don’t see the red lights
blinded by shiny objects
fast cars and seductive fruit
ripe and ready
willing to sacrifice all that matters
wrapped in flesh and bone

Option | Krushna Chandra Mishra

You say
To me you have granted
All options
To be or not with you
Serving your desires
To your satisfaction
About the clear character of which
Neither you nor I should be in any doubt
Since in black and white things are so perfect
Altering anything is simply an exercise in smoke
And then without trying in vain
For untruths to become trees on your planting the seeds
Of faith as in utter lack of it it shall grow
In the same dubious space
Leaving you and me together bound up in tresses
Of desire for destruction all mutual and complete
In your full knowledge and in mine
That no good we are doing to us in turns
As they change now and next opportune moment
To your and my advantage
That is in sum our damned disadvantage.

Masquerade | JD DeHart

Poe was master of the masquerade,
parties held in rooms of various shade,
ghostly haunts and terror sounds,
and how many masters of masquerade
exist now, in this age? What mask
is even now floating past, a face not
of the present but of some ancestor,
princess, king, or ethereal figure?
Better still is the question of what mask
I myself would choose, or perhaps I would
rather go bare into the world, no costume,
no disguise, just unapologetic personality.

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