Man as a being is among the living organism that has life in its fundamental ontological nature to justify its existence. Nevertheless, as empiricist will argue that life is not devoured of experiences; for one to know, it is experience which writes on man knowledge. These experiences are not devoured of lessons. The lessons that life teaches through experience are made up of both good and bad experiences. However, for one to grow, he must take cognizance of the both good and bad experiences he/she has had before. These are what life teaches one. A wise man will always learn from the experiences of others. Life has taught many people many lessons through experiences; in the view to gather different experiences of many people in other to educate the general public, The Nigeria Poets and Writers (NPW) in her second edition of the Weekly Poetry Challenge, asked poets/poetess to tell through poetry what life have taught them using the theme: "WHAT LIFE HAS TAUGHT ME". Below are the responses.
©Akpa Noah Apeh
I used to think I was perfect
Until I met a lot of challenges
Those challenges reshaped me
Life is unfair I whispered to myself
Things I knew began to disappear
New ideas popping through my head
Everyday I stare at myself
Look at me am changing every seconds
Life has taught me to be loyal to the cause
So many shadows I can't even concentrate
I try to retaliate but that's not how it pays
What Life has taught me can never be replaced
By those horror I see in my dreams
Experience they say is the best teacher
No wonder everyday I grew wiser
All because I realize that life without experience is a waste
That's what life has taught me
Theophilus Katon Chidonku
Life
A mystery
Life
I thought you will treat me good
But now life has turned it back on me
Fate has thought me many lessons
Life good or bad
Life changes
Life have thought me to live
And walk alone
I kept on thinking
What have I done to deserve this?
#Life
A stitch in time
Life Has taken away my joy
But I hope to smile someday
@Mary Dorcas Sanni
GRACIOUS LESSON
The sweet and sour of life is what makes life what it's, the ability to cope in each situation is what makes us who we are.
Life may bend and twist us, still we can decide either to let it break us or make us.
We may be black or white, ugly or beautiful, with love we can grow together.
If we can celebrate others, not minding the position we are, we also would win someday and be celebrated.
Everyone has a time in life to be victorious, why not learn to celebrate before your time comes?
What I've learnt from life is gracious, I hope you can also learn from what life has taught me.
© Omotayo Oluwatobi David
A LESSON FROM LIFE
I'm once a young boy that was not stable,
But this life had taught me to be knowledgeable.
Life had bended me, twisted me and broken me,
Life had stung me like a bee.
Life had remoulded me, repaired me and repainted me like paint,
Through life, I become a living saint.
Should I talk about the evils in the world?
Should I narrate the goodies of word?
"Never trust a friend", I learnt from this life.
"Beauty doesn't matter but a good wife."
"Good turns deserve another", this world taught me this.
"Beware of fornicators, their mouth never kiss."
I've learnt to be good,
And not a lover of food.
Life is a lesson
That is if you will reason.
© Afrose Saad
Bangladesh
Lessons!!!
Life is a diary of so many blank pages
Each page represents a story of new trend
Each story has so many slots
Each slot has a specific goal
Each goal can't attain as usually
Need so much efforts and passion
Lesson that comes from each page
Try to show a new ray
Good and bad - all are twisting
Myriads thoughts are swaying
Whether a transformation of silly thing
A new birth of Caterpillar as a butterfly
By enduring all the unbeatable deeds
Life can touch the golden peak of success
Reflection of the lovely thoughts
From the core of mind
To ensure the lively rhythms
Be cautious when stepping onward
@Yusuf M. Khalid
Life seems like school
It often sounds cool
Sometimes it blows hot
As you get bored of being taught
It punishes for a wrong done
And rewards for a job well done
Life respects cash credit
School honours paper credit
If you aren't ready, it doesn't care
Like exams, life is unfair
Like pupils, people are classes
You have the elite and the masses
Life has taught me a lot
It's more of casting a lot
Pick the head or the tail
Every one has a tale
Some are happy, some are sad
For some life isn't so bad
Das
Date. 02.05.2020
Title what life has taught to me.
The time between birth and death
The life passage is really tough.
From the beginning to end we are moving
Through rough passages without any proper support.
Few lucky people really enjoy life.
Others are mere drivers and pedestrian walkers.
Drivers only looking sign board, signal lights and
Observe the traffic rules.
They have no time to look left and right.
Pedestrian walkers are using limited space.
They are moving with the burden of life.
Most are not happy therefore they are not smiling
Who are smiling are not really happy.
Because they are the only bitter side of life.
Most are walking, staying and sleeping on the throne.
Most are lost the supporters and motivators.
Few are lucky because somebody has to pamper.
Still most are staying in the dark world, because they
Denied better education and opportunities.
Most are not getting the deserved rights and privileges.
Few are enjoying the fruits of developments
Few are remaining as nationless peoples in the world.
Few don’t have any identity because they are illegal migrants.
Few are living under the banner of nationally committed people.
Few are antinationalist and terrorist.
Few are hopeful, few others are hopeless and desperate people.
Few are saints and yogis, few are robbers and thieves.
Few donate the entire wealth to the poor.
Few are really crazy for money.
Few are earning and donating to the real needy.
Few are earning and pileup the wealth till death.
While death they lost peace of mind because they afraid
Somebody grab their wealth.
Some People forget their own life and earn for the next generation.
But new gen. are enjoying the same wealth and never know who earns the same.
Some are studying more, but no confidence to do any job.
Some are illiterate, but carrying enough practical experience.
Some are honest and straightforward but they are extremely poor.
Some are tricky and clever but they are really rich and live the name and fame
Some are very handsome but don’t have any good quality and personality.
Some are not fair, but they are carrying a good heart and mind.
Life is really a tough battle to somebody but others walking through
Either flower or well wet passages.
Different human beings are saw the different faces of life.
The entire people have different experiences about life.
Because each human being is unique and lives in a different environment.
We can never see uniformity instead we can see a lot of differences in life.
Each human approach to the life is different because they are carrying
Different ideologies, it formed from the different situations.
But one thing is true no man can ever maintain happiness in his whole life.
Also no man never ever cries in the whole real life in the universe.
@peacewrites
All they did was hate me
What did I ever do to deserve sure
They never cared about me
Maybe that's the reward of love
Life taught me to love myself too
But I never learned
Maybe being hate is my fate
No one can ever love me
When I'm gone don't bring flowers to my grave
You never cared when I was alive
Never say I wish she was alive
I never meant anything to you when I was
Life taught me a lesson
I fail to learn
Let my tomb be made of poetry
I want my pen to keep bleeding even when am no more
Anayat Ullah
LIFE HAS TAUGHT ME
To be happier in your life
Middle of the time need to be hoggish
And need to learn ignoring
Ignore an hoggish
These two words are very important
To be happy in your life
You would be be happier in your life
When you will learn ignoring and be hoggish
You are not fine
That's your fault
If you seek cause of your sadness
Then you would sees someone neglected you
Or someone ignoring you
Learn ignoring and be hoggish
To be happier in your life
@ Aaron Angela
One day I woke up ready to hook up
With my comrades
But the race had already begun
The whistle has been blown
The rode has been tied
The audience screaming and jubilating
The game was over they where all rewarded
for their hard work wasn't in vain
Their steadfastness wasn't a waste
They got a golden medal
A medal which represents their good works
A medal which represents their brave self
I've missed an opportunity for I wasn't steadfast I was carried away by want
Now I've missed a flight.
One day I stayed awake
"I shouldn't sleep" I said to myself
Successors never sleep nor slumber
I should be steadfast
I should wait for time
Time shouldn't wait for me
For it's my goal not the time goal
It's my race I have to run it
Life has taught me to be steadfast
For legend never sleeps.
You'll never have the sweet nectar dreamt back in your cradle;
Plans change, society influenced the brilliant strategies burnt by their red candle
You'll never, sage few manage to sustain its injuries;
So many candidates mourners cried over their furies.
Mistake awarding the feeble minded disappointment over times.
We all have dreams broken, but what LIFE hath taught me is a BEHOLDER OPPORTUNITY off crimes.
Jeremiah Obajolu
Title: Now I know
Life is full of mysteries
But most of it is history
For the past wonderful years
I realized that this spherical should be feared
Now I know that life is cool,
I've met various type both wise and fool,
I've learnt to be mobile,
Numerous life should be your phobia.
Now I know that life is flickery,
Living skittishly is as sweet as cherry,
Never depends on future my dear,
Everything is volatile and unsteady.
Now I know that life is perilous,
Even your loved ones can be hazardous,
To trust and be trusted is dangerous,
The result is always grievous.
Now I know that life can mislead,
Full of different spoof and cozen feed,
Passing those traps triumphantly,
Will confirm your success permanently.
© Egwuoba Innocent Chinonso
S S 3 Student
O what a memorable lesson life's struck
Me with which time will never put apart from sight!
It's indeed an enduring mark
Life's a teacher, a cane that strikes my back
When I taught the dark's light
But I wallow in the trembling park
Teacher, you taught me nobody friends in dark
And behold the crooked part
That makes woe, the jack
You taught me "dogs bite like snake
But will never cease to smile in twilight
As though no evil it's ever think"
But I wallow in the trembling park
Can I put in place, the flaws aright?
O'clock I wish you reverse back!
Though bent, twisted and the ways crook
But craving to see the blissful morrows in the dark light
Still gives me reasons to move in track
It's indeed an enduring mark
Cristina Juanite
Philippines
Life is meaningful, and full of colours ,behind this life is
full of challenges and trials
as long as we live, we will live in a process in which we are test by all the struggles and challenges in our own life.
Life has taught me to be strong ,to face all the challenges in life ,believe in yourself, and give your best in all the challenges
in our life.
Life has taught me to be a survivor in facing the battles
in life ,as we face all the battles ,we have our courage meant to fight, encourage and motivate yourself, and never give up,
Life has taught me to have.
strong and faith in God ,the best
weapon to surpass from all the
battles in life, it also taught me
life would be meaningful if you
found someone, who will guide
you in all the challenges in life.
Life has taught me it's not the position or fame,you will find happiness in life,
Living a simple life, and contentment in small things, appreciate, God's blessings
In life, with strong faith and words
God, will give you the true,and real happiness in your life, and in your heart. 💖
@preciouspen
Life is like a book
It often captures the interest of every possible audience with it's beautiful cover
Inside the book lies plenty of plain chapters waiting on time and history to make an impact
At the beginning it can be pretty amazing and carries full expectations for the audience, and some days it gets pretty bad that you become so indecisive of either to yank off the page and give up or move on to the next chapter
My advice is move on to the next chapter you certainly can't guess what awaits you
Life is a bicycle, to stay balanced you have to keep moving. Only continuous peddling takes you to your destination n
Mabel Nkechi Odo
GIVE AND TAKE!
My closest Neighbour, Life,
Gave me a cob of 🌽 corn,
Very hard&small to quench my hunger,
Too big to be rejected in anger,
In a fertile land I planted the seeds,
And in 3 months time,
I harvested a big sac of 🌽 corn cobs!
I decided against adding poison,
In my Neighbour's burger;
Whom I see as a begger,
In his burger,I added butter,
And to my daughter inside a gutter,
He gave the burger,
Amidst tears, to smile bigger!
On my Neighbour's 🐦 bird,
I catapult big stone,
Stone flew passed the 🐦 bird,
Broke my glass 🏠 house,
Bounced back & got me blind!
I'll take things easy with you, my Neighbour!
Paul Chizoba Ogbuagu
SLOW & STEADY
I subjected my vehicle,
To the highest speed to overtake,
But I got home later;
After many years of labour;
Years of recovering;
From accident of colliding with trailer,
While those crawling vehicles,
Has long forgotten,
The year they drove behind me;
With slow and steady,
They got home better &saver!
Edeh chisom stella
Poem title:perception
Just as bright sky becomes cloudy in a blink, so is life
Everything is how I wanted it
In the midst of euphoria, uncertainty of life stuck me
What is the point of living?
I asked myself
Is it to acquire?
Is it to impress?
Is it to express?
Life is experience
Life is about the change in me
Feeling without touching
Seeing with eyes closed
Hearing in silence
Laughing in pain
Loving the little things.
Beholding the life I had
Of the things that shattered me
I learned acceptance of things past.
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