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Mitch Albom
Mitchell David Albom widely recognized for his inspirational stories and themes, was born on 23rd May 1958 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA. Albom achieved great fame in various dimensions, he is well known as bestselling author and journalist, appreciated as a screen writer, musician, dramatist and radio/TV broadcaster. He started his writing career as sports writer and won instant national fame.

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In the poem when the main character talks about his aching bones reminds me of how the main character is feeling because he is experiencing immense pain. This poem elevates the conversation when the author of the poem says that he doesn't want a transplant for new bones because his bones are what make him himself. The main character of the book was only able to breathe with a machine and didn't want the machine to be the thing keeping him alive.The autor and the main character in the book both wanted to be 100% themselfs.

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"Life" is such a wide umbrella; a word that covers many, many things, and everyone's experience of it is different. So let's narrow it down. Let's look at some poems about life that crack open how life can feel when we're struggling and things are hard...but also ones that put a balm on that wound. There's a lot of shit going on right now. There always is, but it's been particularly sharp and thorny lately, and sometimes we need someone to put that into the words we just don't have in us. Words that make us feel heard and understood, that acknowledge our pain and how heavy life can feel.

And sometimes we also need to get put back together again; to be reminded of the ways we can get through this, how we have overcome, and how, despite it all, life gives us hope. Poems like that serve as a reminder that we are not alone, and there is still beauty to be had-even if it's just in the form of a perfect line of poetry.

Let this collection of poems about life help you feel heard, comforted, and give voice to whatever hurts or heals right now.

The best poems about life

1. Cindy Williams Gutiérrez "The Small Claim of Bones"

what my body knows
is not a lie it's not
a lie i tell you it is not
it's nothing short of truth
and nothing larger
my past lodges
in my marrow and if
i wanted a transplant
there'd be no match
others' sorrows dwarf
my petty traumas still
these bones are mine
when they creak
when they moan
when they whine
there's only one thing
i can claim these bones
are mine i tell you
they are mine and kind
to abandon no thing
that makes this pulse
no one but me

5. Octavio Paz "The Street"

It's a long and silent street.

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I walk in the dark and trip and fall
and get up and step blindly
on the mute stones and dry leaves
and someone behind me is also walking:
if I stop, he stops;
if I run, he runs. I turn around: no one.
Everything is black, there is no exit,
and I turn and turn corners
that always lead to the street
where no one waits for me, no one follows,
where I follow a man who trips
and gets up and says when he sees me: no one.

9. W.S. Merwin "Separation"

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

12. Langston Hughes "Life is Fine"

I went down to the river,

I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.
But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!
I stood there and I hollered!

I stood there and I cried!
If it hadn't a-been so high
I might've jumped and died.
But it was High up there! It was high!
Though you may hear me holler,

And you may see me cry-
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.
Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!
16. Tupac Shakur "The Rose That Grew From Concrete"

Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.

20. Emily Dickinson "I Took My Power in My Hand"

22. Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Love"

23. Raymond Carver "Late Fragment"

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

24. Rupi Kaur "Untitled"

25. Hanif Abdurraqib "All Of The Ways I've Kept Myself Alive"

Want more poems about life? Check out these short poems, some Instagram poets, and make yourself feel better with a little love.

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25 Poems About Life And Resilience, When Life Is Just Too Hard

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"Life" is such a wide umbrella; a word that covers many, many things, and everyone's experience of it is different. So let's narrow it down. Let's look at some poems about life that crack open how life can feel when we're struggling and things are hard...but also ones that put a balm on that wound.

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3 of my family members were diagnosed. with ALS including my father.

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Will there ever be a cure to ALS? Is there anything that he could have done earlier in his life to prevent this from happening.
Has anyone survived ALS/Is it always terminal

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The novel takes place during 1995, in Morrie's study, in West Newton, Massachusetts

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I found my author Mitch Albom very interesting. He spent several years working in night clubs in pursuit of his dream to become a musician. He joined various bands in high school and college. He is a very successful author who has sold over 39 million copies worldwide
He achieves National recognition for his sports writing in his early career. Although he is best known for his Inspirational stories.
Mitch was born on May 23, 1958, in Passaic, New Jersey, the middle of three children to Rhoda and Ira Albom