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What Is Life?

WHAT IS LIFE?

IS IT A CHAIN OF EVENTS
WHICH WHEN ONE DAY ENDS
NEVER COMES BACK AGAIN?

IS LIFE ONLY A DREAM
DOES IT ONLY SEEM
TO BE WHAT IS ONLY AN ILLUTION?

IS LIFE A BED OF ROSES
WHICH SOMETIMES CAUSES
PAIN, DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF THORNS?

IS LIFE A GAME
OF LOSING AND REGAINING FAME,
OF BEARING WITH THE TIME, NOT TAME?

WHAT IS LIFE?

IS IT ONLY A QUESTION
THAT CAN NEVER BE ANSWERED;
CANNOT BE INFERRED
FROM THE CLUES, WE HAVE?

AND IS IT RIGHT
THAT LIFE IS SOMETIMES BRIGHT
BUT SOMETIMES AS DARK
AND SCARY AS AN ENDLESS NIGHT?

ALL I KNOW IS THAT
I HAVE FAILED
TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE OF LIFE.

PERHAPS THAT IS WHAT LIFE IS
A PUZZLE, TOO DIFFICULT FOR ME.
SO, I ASK FOR THE SOLLUTION-
WHAT IS LIFE??

Author notes

Option 7: Rhyming Poems



Prompt 14 : LIfe


Written December 25th, 2004

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  • Celticmoon
    December 27, 2007

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    Sorry for the delay in judging; and thank you for taking the time to enter. I wish you the best of luck in the contest!


  • Li snuffles
    December 4, 2007
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    Awh.. this is a really inspirational brilliant poem

    thank you for entering..xXx


    • Nivedita
      December 4, 2007
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      Thanks! I am really glad that you liked it. I wrote this poem when I was 14. One of my earliest and most favourite poems.

  • kitkat92
    November 17, 2007
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    oops

    sorry, commented twise

  • kitkat92
    November 10, 2007

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    hmmmm...

    i wouldn't kno that answer, lol, its good, very intresting, something people might not think about often, witch makes it even better, thanx for entering


  • Swan song gold member
    November 3, 2007

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    This poem has some good potential Please feel free to revise and i will be back to judge it later next week.


  • leslielovesthomas
    November 2, 2007
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    thank you for entering and good luck!

    leslie


  • ExpectingMommy18
    October 25, 2007

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    i ask myself all the time what is life.
    you did a good job with this write.

    thank you for entering and good luck in the contest!


  • Horrid Horizon
    December 18, 2005
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    good

    hello nivedita ... this is a very interesting write here... everyone has its own definition of LIFE.. and then this is such a complicated word to define... through one's own experiences people comclude on what life is.... .... your poem here is very well .. you should keep on writing..

    - HH


  • Miss Belligerence
    December 25, 2004
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    I think this is very well written. I especially liked the lines
    "IS LIFE A BED OF ROSES
    WHICH SOMETIMES CAUSES
    PAIN, DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF THORNS?"
    Great write. I thought you had some wonderful verses in here. Happy holidays


  • Nivedita
    December 25, 2004
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    Thank u for spending ur time on it.


  • keelyray
    December 25, 2004
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    very intresting wright i loved it you chose your word wisly you did a great job on your toughts with this as well great job well done.
    EE

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