10 Poems About Life And Love

1. Life Without Love
     Poet: Julie Hebert, © 2011
   
   Life can be busy,
   And somewhat uneasy,
   But there are things that can make it great.
   
   Having love in your life,
   Just a brother even a wife,
   Can make all the difference to fate.
   
   Love can lend you a hand,
   When you need to withstand,
   Some of the harder things in life.
   
   But love can also soften,
   Every so often,
   When you're dealing with life's bigger strife.
   
   We know love can sometimes be,
   Hard to obtain thee,
   But not all love needs romance to be any.
   
   The love of a father,
   A mother, a daughter,
   Is a love that would satisfy many.
   
   So allow love in your lifetime,
   And give it more than a dime,
   For love is worth much more to one man.
   
   At first, you might not see it,
   But it really much needed,
   As life without love is never the plan.




Short Love Poems



2. Love Is Like Magic
   Helen Steiner Rice
   
   Love is like magic and it always will be.
   For love still remains life's sweet mystery!
   Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange
   And there's nothing in life that love cannot change!




Finding Love Poems



3. Lord I'm So Lonely
   Greta Zwaan, © 2006
   
   Lord, I'm so lonely, it's so quiet here;
   My family's all gone and no one lives near.
   My life's not at all what I had expected;
   I feel so left out, I feel so rejected.
   When I was younger I had such great dreams;
    I had things all planned, my head full of schemes.
   But I was so busy with so much to do;
   I paid no attention to thoughts about You.
   
   "When I am older," I always would say,
    "I'll think of religion, I even might pray."
   But now my attention is geared for success;
   I'm up for promotion, I'm under great stress.
   I want this position, I want to achieve;
   When I'm not so busy I'll try to believe.
   But time passed by quickly, the days disappeared,
   And all my achievements were never revered.
   
   I've never reached the praise that I sought,
    It seems that my efforts were all for naught.
   I gave all I had to a self-centered life,
   And all it returned was hardship and strife.
   Now that I've come to the point where
   I see all of these dreams did nothing for me;
   I fear that my time, which was not well spent,
   Has taken its toll, it's too late to repent.
   
   Now, all alone, not a friend or a kin
   Remembers my name because of my sin.
   My sin? Self absorbent, neglecting their need,
   No time for involvement because of my greed.
   And Lord, How I hurt! To the depths of my heart.
   I'd give all I own to make a new start!
   I'd make time for friends, spend time in prayer,
   Asking forgiveness, seeking Your care.
   
   Can You forgive me? A life filled with pride?
   Can You still use me when You've been denied?
   Will You allow me, what's left of my days,
   To belong to Your family, to sing of Your praise?
   And God, in Your mercy, could You send me a friend?
    So this lonely feeling might come to an end?
   I'm not deserving, I depend on Your grace;
    I thank You for caring and hearing my case.
   Thanks for forgiveness, for patience with me,
   For Your tender goodness, for setting me free.




Poems About God's Love



4. Love Comes Back To You
     Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
   
   From the time we were born
   To the time we die,
   We need love, someone who cares,
   No matter what we try.
   
   Life brings different types
   Of love and caring
   Each one is unique,
   With many a blessing.
   
   There is the love of
   Family, and friends,
   The people who stay
   With us to the end.
   
   And we always have
   The unfailing love
   And that is from
   God above.
   
   And we also have a need to
   Share love with others
   You can always help
   Your sisters and brothers.
   
   You can share your love
   By doing a good deed
   And by helping others who
   Have a true need.
   
   Always remember,
   What you give and do
   Is love's way of
   Coming back to you.




Life Journey Poems



5. Love and Death
   Poet: Coventry Patmore
   
   Too soon, too soon comes Death to show
   We love more deeply than we know!
   The rain, that fell upon the height
   Too gently to be called delight,
   Within the dark vale reappears
   As a wild cataract of tears;
   And love in life should strive to see
   Sometimes what love in death would be!




Poetry about Life and Death



6. Life Is Good
   Poet: Bayard Taylor
   
   Life is good and life is fair,
   Love awaits thee everywhere:
   Love! is Love's immortal prayer.
   
   Live for love, and thou shalt be,
   Loving others, true to me:
   Love, I follow, follow thee!




Life Is Good Poems



7. If Love Were Life
   Poet: Selina Tarpley Williams
   
   If love were life and hearts more tender were;
   No growing old or dying would there be;
   No eyes from too much weeping fail to see;
   No more the brow be the interpreter
   Of care beneath, nor soul a prisoner
   Within a cell, but like a breath that's free,
   Would spread itself through all eternity;
   If love were life and hearts more tender were.
   
   It is not hard to understand God's plan.
   Nor be submissive when submission's sweet;
   A flower simply lives to bloom, and man
   Should simply live to love, or else defeat
   The Master's will, which He has made so clear,
   That love enough would make us angels here.




Christian Poems About Love



8. Sunshine In My Heart
   Poet: Mary E. Blake
   
   You ask to conquer in the strife:
   Take, then, your chosen part.
   I'd rather fold within my life
   The sunshine of the heart.
   
   I'd rather know how thus to win
   A balm from every pain;
   Thus, even from the shade of sin,
   Some purer strength to gain;
   
   To live in hope, to trust in right,
   To smile when shadows start,
   To walk through darkness as through light,
   With sunshine in the heart.




Poems Of Encouragement



9. Two Pictures
     Poet: Unknown
   
   Somebody's heart is gay,
   And somebody's heart is sad;
   For lights shine out across the way,
   And a door with crape is clad.
   Sadness and gladness alike
   Are dwelling side by side.
   Perhaps the death of an early one,
   And the crowning of a bride.
   
   Bright eyes are filled with mirth,
   Pale faces bend in prayer,
   And hearts beside the household hearth
   Are crushed by stout despair;
   Ah, sorrow and hope and joy
   Are parted by thinnest walls;
   But on the hearts of the thoughtless ones
   No shadow of sorrow falls!
   
   No thoughts of the funeral train
   Come to the festive throng;
   No hopes that the past will come again
   To the anguished hearts belong;
   The future's a sunny sea
   To the lovers of joy and mirth;
   But the past alone to those who weep
   For the sundered ties of earth.
   
   Somebody's heart is gay,
   And somebody's heart is sad;
   For the lights are bright across the way,
   And a door with crape is clad.
   Sadness and gladness alike
   Confront us on every side;
   A wealth of smiles and a flood of tears,
   With hope and sorrow allied!




10. Throughout Our Lifetime
      Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
    
    Throughout our lifetime, love graces our days,
    In countless forms, with its enchanting ways.
    From childhood innocence to tender embrace,
    Love fills life's chapters, with each passing phase.
    
    It blooms in friendship, a bond strong and true,
    Romantic ardor ignites hearts anew.
    With gratitude, we cherish its gentle glow,
    For love's presence, a gift we come to know.