Life Hacks

Life Poems

Words can offer insight and encouragement when we are at a low ebb. Poetry can be a creative refuge and a way to make sense of feelings we cannot yet explain.

By Mark Elliot

The Rhythm of the Sea

The tides mark time on our journey
The waves washing over another day
Is my life washing away?
How many tides will my life be?

The rhythm of the sea
The rhythm of life
The rhythm within me

Life is like a voyage on the sea: wind and tide behind us, becalmed and waiting, or enduring into a storm. The sea reminds me to use this time and not be diminished by the brevity of life.

Life Time

If I could turn back time
On my pride and stupidity
I had so very much I could not see
Now so little but a new feeling inside of me

Don't turn back time
The possibility of life and love awaits
Let me live and know and see
I feel the far horizons calling to me.

Write your own

Begin with one repeated line. Do not try to make it impressive. Let the words describe what is actually inside you.