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Motivation Poems | Examples of Motivation Poetry

Jukebox Requiem
ANGIE, that last slow dance in smoky haze— you slipped UNDER MY THUMB like twilight’s ache. The Rolling Stones crooned fate through tangled days; I tried to PAINT IT BLACK for mercy’s sake. But YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT—truth stings— just loaded TUMBLIN DICE in neon towns, chasing HONKY TONK WOMEN on borrowed wings while WILD HORSES dragged dreams to...

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Categories: motivation, imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Emil Cioran
I've been fed a prune of life, Spooned it silver, everlasting. I spat it out to seek a knife, To chop and cease it of forecasting. The birth is reason as much itself: Not 'yond the self conceived. Wrote for book on busy shelf, Whose tales unread aren't grieved....

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Categories: motivation, history, humanity, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ruled by Trees
I beheld the quaking aspen, shaking and gold I quaked in resonance with the breeze If you're young inside, you never get cold Its recriminations that make your spirit freeze I wept beneath the weeping willow It felt like the right place to cry Under its cascades I found a pillow Had a sad feeling, didn't know why. When autumn colored I found...

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Categories: imagination, motivation, nature,
Form: Lyric
Untitled
You aren’t a burden, you are a blessing. ...

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Categories: motivation, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Pick Up Your Sword
It's your choice to keep going. It's your choice to heal. It's your choice to reflect. It's your choice to look at that broken reflection and to see a warrior. It's your choice to quit. It's your choice to stay broken. It’s your choice to reflect. It's your choice to look at that broken reflection and...

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Categories: motivation, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Tumultuous:Self-Esteem
Expectations brings about self deprecations, sometimes I wonder if the thoughts running through my head are my own or somebody else’s? The world lives in constant turmoil, waves crashing, tides swerving in and out from open- ended beaches, abysmal delays of the lighthouse directory, guided by supplemental shocks of lightening rays trajectory. I stand firmly in front of the baseless sandcastle, a fragile foundation of past voices from lurking shadows who slowly...

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Categories: motivation, conflict, emotions, fear, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lubricant- MJF
I feel it smoothly, gliding freely, Liquid fluidity surging. Not a fraction of too much friction, An undulating path followed effortlessly. Movement and balance allowing continuous flow. A sense of harmony as the lubrication guides easily. Embracing depth with no distraction. No tension felt as if all melts with fluid energy. A transition of like particles melding without abrasive motion. A sleek silky transition...

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Categories: motivation,
Form: Ekphrasis
Solely on Us
We can harvest well, But we must plant our saplings; We can build up luck....

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Categories: motivation, allegory, character, destiny, encouraging,
Form: Senryu
Change The System
They tell us we’re the future yet 63% of us stand under twenty-five, hungry for more than empty promises. They say unemployment is only 6.8% but when each job vacancy spawns nineteen hopeful faces, those numbers shatter. It’s not our fault alone we’re taught to pass, not to prepare, and leaders build bridges to nowhere. change the system, rebuild classrooms with real tools, forge curricula in...

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Categories: motivation, africa, community, courage, creation,
Form: Free verse
House I Carry
I carry a house upon my back, A fragile frame of dreams and stone. Its windows cracked, its timbers black, But still I walk, and still alone. Each wall is built from words unsaid, From nights I stitched with fraying thread. Its roof is shingled with the dread Of all the tears I never shed. I pass through valleys, rivers wide, This house sways...

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Categories: motivation, emotions, environment, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Invincible
gaslighting - she is inflammable...

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Categories: motivation, confidence, conflict, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Monoku
I sing the praises of Sterilite
I sing the praises of Sterilite (even Mary Poppins would tout a plug for said company she would spout forcing playthings scattered helter skelter retreating into their respective bins analogous to a defeated army beating a hasty retreat after a major rout against all odds fighting off the aggressive incursion of a trumpeting lout, which troops use weapon of choice namely breath issuing "Kraut" which in German,...

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Categories: motivation, america, appreciation, beautiful, fashion,
Form: Free verse
The Journey In Me
I stand with the world in my hands, Not because I own it, But because I believe A better world begins with me. One step, I walk a quiet road, Learning life, one lesson at a time. Another step, I climb a hill, Chasing dreams that feel too high. Behind me is the man I was, Before me is the man I will be. In...

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Categories: deep, dream, life, motivation,
Form: Narrative
Falling Leaves, Fading Chapters
I watched a leaf release its breath, A golden sigh upon the air. It tumbled softly into death, A quiet dance without despair. The wind, a gentle funeral song, Caressed it with a lover’s grace. It drifted, weightless, swept along, No bitterness upon its face. I thought of all I’ve had to leave, The hands, the homes, the hollow years. I thought of how we...

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Categories: motivation, deep, extended metaphor, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Be Your Own Life DJ
You built the skills, you have done the work, Faced every challenge, adjusted to every quirk. Now comes the fork in the road of life that is yours to face Grab the microphone of life with a warm embrace A DJ doesn’t follow sound, They craft the moment, feel the ground. They blend the old with the new, create the...

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Categories: motivation, analogy, care, character, courage,
Form: Free verse

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