Life poems?

Question

so i'm doing this school report/project. i need to include like ten billion differemt poems. i was wondering if anyone knew any good poems and/or quotes about like, growing up and memories and how you've changed over time. if you do please let me know! =] thx

Answer 1

Learning
After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and changing a soul
And you learn
that love doesn't mean leaning
and company doesn't always mean security.
And you begin to learn
that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises
And you begin
to accept your defeats with your head up
and your eyes ahead
with the grace of a woman,
not the grief of a child.
And you lear
to build your roads on today
because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain
for plans and futures have a way
of falling down in mid flight.
And you learn
that even sunshine burns if you get too much
so you plant your own garden and decorate
your own soul instead of waiting
for someone else to bring you flowers.
And you learn
that you really can endure...
and you really are strong...
and you really do have worth...
And you learn
with every tear you learn
and you are no longer a child
You are a woman.

Answer 2

An unexpected turning point
A stop along the way
HATE grabs and pulls you by the hand
And leads you to astray
It takes it's toll and takes away
The things you used to have
It makes you stop and look at things
You'll never understand
BUT JUST WHEN YOU THINK HOPE IS GONE
Another stop is made
LOVE tries to grab and pull you back
To turn the other way
The love that you have given me
Has changed my cold; steel heart
I've loved you more than anything
Right from the very start


Pain of The Night

Watch as this tear falls into empty space
See it fall into life's nameless place
Can you see the sparkle as it catches the light
That sparkle once was happiness that is no longer in sight
As it falls watch it, its color has changed
From blue to bright red, it has a wide range
There it goes all alone, it continues to fall
With it, it takes the emotion, the emotion of all
Wait, can you hear it? A sob has broke free
Has shook the lungs cold, but yet it continues to be
Here it comes, a force has been built between the eye
A wall of shear water, it's now time to cry
A shudder, a scream, darkness envelops your soul
The darkness of the night has taken its toll
(^This one my friend wrote)



After all
The pointless fights
And all the times
I've cried at night
And all the cuts
That made me bleed
And heartake that
You've brought to me
And all the tears
That I have cried
And all the pain
I've felt inside
I hope that you
Will one day see
You still mean more
Than life to me...
But since you've had
Some second thoughts
Forget all my
"Forget-Me-Not"s
And break my heart
Again once more
I'll hide the pain
Just like before


I wrote these (exept for the second one) and have a whole bunch of them, so email me if you need more.

And if this is for school, you can change "And all the cuts that made me bleed" to "And all the days that I have greived"

~Good Luck~

Answer 3

My favorite is Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas.

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.

All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay
Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air
And playing, lovely and watery
And fire green as grass.
And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,
All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars
Flying with the ricks, and the horses
Flashing into the dark.

And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white
With the dew, come back, the cocck on his shoulder: it was all
Shining, it was Adam and maiden,
The sky gathered again
And the sun grew round that very day.
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light
In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm
Out of the whinnying green stable
On to the fields of praise.

And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house
Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,
In the sun born over and over,
I ran my heedless ways,
My wishes raced through the house high hay
And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows
In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs
Before the children green and golden
Follow him out of grace.

Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me
Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
In the moon that is always rising,
Nor that riding to sleep
I should hear him fly with the high fields
And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

Answer 4

I wrote a simple worded poem, but I will tell it anyway,
"Together we are, together we stay
together we love, together we pray
together we touch, together we feel
together we hurt, together we heal
together we win, together we lose
together we give, together we choose
together we laugh, together we cry
together we live , together we die"

Answer 5

"Dance like no one is watching
Sing as if no one is listening
and live each day as if it was your last."

~~Old Celtic Proverb