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Best Ambition Poems

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Premium Member The Angel Inside
Coral life forms in copious swarms
feast in the Cambrian chyme,
dividing their cells and forming their shells
to end on the seafloor as lime.
Tectonic churning and magma...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ambition, allegory, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Am Willing,, a Miracle
To win is the trying..!' gainst despairs blank stare, a wounded earth still 
rolls on..! Midst the throes of territorial vying..

Shows our shattered crystal the...

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Categories: ambition, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dream Big
Set your sights high
Follow what your heart desires
There’s nothing you can’t do

With your deepest breath
Take in the universe
There’s nothing you can’t do

Dream your dream in...

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Categories: ambition, confidence, courage, dream, future,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: ambition, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Apocalypse Now
Running through the Lost Forest of no tomorrows, my heart beats at warp speed as the hideous howls draw nearer. My thoughts briefly digress to...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ambition, anxiety, fear,
Form: Haibun



Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...

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Categories: ambition, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Crimson Rain
On a still...ancient horizon,
Massive dragon wings emerge,
To the atmospheric battlefield. 
Where two legendary beasts,
Clash for the love...of a dragoness.

A battle of mythic proportions,
Of two stonily...

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Categories: ambition, fantasy, love
Form: Free verse
What I Think
Honey it's probaly not best befor I have
a drink.
To look deep in my eyes and ask what 
I think.

Cause Im  far from a romantic...

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Categories: ambition, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sir Richard Branson - Rocket Man
Sir Richard Branson - Rocket Man
There was a boy who had not fared well at school
Years gone by and no one could call him a...

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Categories: ambition, celebrity, inspirational, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member HONORING THE CHRIST CHILD

Christmas carols are being sung,
As bells are joyfully being rung,
Heralding the Christ Child’s birth,
As Christmas Day, we celebrate with mirth.

But lets think of Joseph and...

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Categories: ambition, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Between the Extremes - POTD
In the nighttime hours
As the world deftly creeps by
I summon my powers
Spread my wings and fly
Past cotton clouds,
Snow-capped mountains, white
I am lost and I am...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ambition, desire, flying, freedom, sunset,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking Milton
Their human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with...

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Categories: ambition, cat, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Think Therefore I Am
I THINK THEREFORE I AM


"An ounce of hypocrisy is worth 
a pound of ambition" --Michael Korda

Liberty...
This everyone's want--
stretching an autonomy to unbuckle self-discovery

I got mites...

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Categories: ambition, character, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
When a Woman Is Just a Woman
When a woman is just a woman
She's nobody's but her own
She embraces truth in life
with compassion in her soul
When a woman is just a...

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Categories: ambition, beauty, blessing, women,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place
The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble...

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Categories: ambition, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs