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Best Encouraging Poems

Below are the all-time best Encouraging poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of encouraging poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Poets
When all around is darkness
Who provides the sun
When everyone is serious
Who is poking fun
When pollution clouds the bright blue sky
Who brings clarity
Who tries to bring...

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Categories: appreciation, encouraging, friendship,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Be the Flame of Compassion
Be the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you...

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Categories: care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: encouraging, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
           (The Solemn Prayer)

Raining splashing, fierce winds...

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Categories: art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doors
There are so many doors
Which ones should I choose
Green, yellow, brown, purple
and many different blues

Some of them are rustic
Others modern and clean
Some lead to the...

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Categories: encouraging, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, courage,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Lift Somebody's Dawn
Learn from the eagle how to soar with winds
Spanning your wings to conquer tall peaks 
Float hopes high reaching sapphire blue skies
Triumph with your smile...

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Categories: encouraging, inspiration, meaningful, youth,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Star Riders
The end, so close yet so far
We're riding our shooting star
Our life, the blink of an eye
A flash, that lights up the sky
It's sad so...

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Categories: celebration, encouraging, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Worst Love Poem Ever Written
I suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
 
And I told a half truth
When I told you I...

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Categories: encouraging, cancer, cry, death of
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Best Paths Move Forward
The best paths move forward.
Don't waste your time looking back.
The things you've said, the things you've done,
Can never be brought back.

Don't waste the little time...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Triolet For Linda
To those you care for, always you impart
deep love; how beautiful and sweet you are!
I pray you find a way to mend your heart.
To those...

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Categories: encouraging,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member If I Could Play the Violin
If I could play the violin
     I'd write a melody
   euphonious to draw you in
    ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: encouraging, love, music, song,
Form: Rhyme
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It was in the sorrow
That I learned to empathize and care
It was in the darkness
That my heart spoke the best prayers
It was in the silence
That...

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Categories: appreciation, beautiful, blessing, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I See You, Flowers In Your Raven Hair
I See You, Flowers In Your Raven Hair

I see you, in flowery meadow scenes
walking, your blue dress swaying in the wind
your raven hair, beautiful stuff...

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Categories: encouraging, appreciation, art, beauty, dream,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member To My Children
Drive mindfully, dear children, as you traverse hurdled highways of life,
Cognizant that adjacent to an oasis of joy, lies a desert brooding strife;
Assume charge of...

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Categories: children, encouraging, family, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
To Take Each Day As It Comes
To take each day as it comes
To gratefully praise The One
Joyfully face the new dawn’s grace,
That's now my everyday plan.

To take each day as it...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: character, encouraging, growing up,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things