Here is a collection of poems reflecting, in one way or the other, on the general meaning of life. These are poems about life, its meaning or a lack thereof. These works span the entire breadth of recorded literary history and represent most stylistic movements and major languages (even though all poems and articles in this section are in English or they were translated into English).
- Orlando Furioso Canto 7 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 5 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 3 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 23 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 17 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 14 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso canto 13 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 10 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 1 by Ludovico Ariosto
- I Call Your Name In My Heart by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Come by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- And because Love battles by Pablo Neruda
- To A Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje
- The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje
- The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
- Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom) by Michael Ondaatje
- Scotland by MB Moshe
- Notes For The Legend Of Salad Woman by Michael Ondaatje
- Make Love and War by Michael O’Leary
- Lullaby of the Onion by Miguel Hernandez
- (Inner Tube) by Michael Ondaatje
- Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje
- Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje
- Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje
- Woman Work by Maya Angelou
- When You Come by Maya Angelou
- Woman With Parasol by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Woman With Parasol by Martin Willitts Jr.
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- Courtship by Mark Strand
- The Steeple-Jack by Marianne Moore
- Peter by Marianne Moore
- Passion by Sera Jacob
- My Daughter at 14, Christmas Dance, 1981 by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- If you should tire of loving me by Margaret Widdemer
- Woman by Manmohan Acharya
- The Husband’s Black Hands by Mallika Sengupta
- The Eve of Saint Agnes by Malcolm Massiah
- Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish
- Rita And The Rifle by Mahmoud Darwish
- Psalm 9 by Mahmoud Darwish
- Snake Pit by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- The Shadow of Crows by Ndue Ukaj
- The Freedom Of Poetry by Ndue Ukaj
- Eucalyptus Grove, morning by Neal Dachstadter
- The Woman From The Archive by Nijole Miliauskaite
- The Walk by Noel Angelo Hurley
- Rainy Day by Nikhil Jain
- The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith