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Metamorphosis | Judy Moskowitz

I never expected to find a torn napkin
somewhere on a beach and start to write
layers of thoughts coming from a locked box
only the wind could understand
pulling me into a magnetic field of consciousness
that would change my life
I never expected to become a poet
just in time before falling into a recliner
no longer a long stemmed rose
life worn on my face
a different kind of legacy
born and penned out of need
all the possibilities stirring within
an envelope mailed to me
I decided to open it
roar and howl
a reinvention I never expected

Your Life Is Finite | Alexis Karpouzos

November 8, 2023 / Best Poetry / memories poems, path in life poems, publish poems online, wisdom poems / Leave a Comment

Love came and whisper to me,
your life is finite,
and you an exquisite imperfection,
someday you will fall like the leaves
and your blood won’t be red any more,
you will pass the gate of silence,
at the intersection between the forgettable before
and the unending after,
so, don’t put it off,
find the sun on your eye
and the songs on your heart,
give rest in the poetry of light

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Prognosticator | Cattail Jester

November 8, 2023 / Best Poetry / contemporary poets, dreaming poems, modern poets, path in life poems, self-reflection poems / Leave a Comment

Through dim
swirl
of half-formed
dream
I was a vision
I saw a vision
of tomorrow’s
promise
of what I
would be
it was unexpected
may change
open to resistance
yet possible.

Fatherly Advice | Stan Morrison

November 6, 2023 / Best Poetry / originality poems, path in life poems, poem about self, read poetry online, wisdom poems / Leave a Comment

I copied everyone I thought was cool
Until I allowed me to be myself
I wasn’t as cool as my illusions
Not as brave as I credited others

Find out what’s true for yourself
You’re bound to save a lot of time
Say good-bye to NOT AS GOOD AS
Any measure must be your own

If there is a final reckoning
Copycats never look the same
Better to cash in on an original
YOU ARE YOU always prevails

Limo Ride to Hell | Judy Moskowitz

November 1, 2023 / Best Poetry / best poems about life, contemporary poetry, critical thinking poems, path in life poems, poetry websites / Leave a Comment

I had a dream
A nightmare
I was blindfolded
Taken away in a limousine
Certain I was going to die
By a man in a mask
And gown to a motel room
Somewhere in the state
Of hell
Vilified by the self righteous
Burned and stoned
I am skin and bone
Heart and mind
Every feature on my face
Belongs to me
I’m not alone in this dream
I’m sharing it with you
Choice is not an
Acquired taste
It belongs to you

Friends | Ugwu Erochukwu Shedrach

October 20, 2023 / Best Poetry / comment on poetry, path in life poems, poetry online / Leave a Comment

With heavy eyelids in full dawn,
We trod paths together,
Like a mother hen
With its only surviving chick.

Through anguish and dismay,
Thorns and thistles,
Together we journeyed,
Like a man with his shadow.

Now, if you go across
This plodder wall ahead,
Where light lies ephemeral,
Keep me not in your empty memories,
for we will certainly take our separate paths.

Calmness | Krushna Chandra Mishra

October 12, 2023 / Best Poetry / contemporary poetry, path in life poems, poem of the day, poetry websites, struggles in life poems / Leave a Comment

When they held
All was almost over
Only somewhere from deep within
There came floating in all majesty
A sweet and comforting voice
To tell me to stay calm
Since storms like this one
Were not the strongest in power
And to go unperturbed
Doing everything
Minding nothing
Never being deterred
From following what I held was most due
In my circumstances then
As my troubled state
Could into irreparable
Disaster turn
To ruin me and all that lies attendant upon my calm.