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Best Betterment Poems

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Premium Member My Son My Friend
Mourn not my Son... your Father's dead
And there's nothing to be done.
Do not mount the battlements in my defense
As the race was fairly won.

The kitchen...

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Categories: betterment, appreciation, death, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Adoration of Nature

Adrift in silent tranquillity, admiring a
Backdrop of nature's charm and grace.
Clarion cloudless sapphire skies above
Depict the state of calmness in my mind.
Eyes admire an abundance...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: betterment, angst, appreciation, nature,
Form: Abecedarian
Says the Butterfly
"says the butterfly"

we have wings use them and fly
we have change adjust to new
we have grace journey softly
we have beauty show such flair

we transform for...

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© Lisa Ricci  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: betterment, beauty, blessing, butterfly, endurance,
Form: Light Verse
Youth Worker
To seek a twist that turns a soul, toward two open hands,
A street wise urchin scours the lanes, where likewise understands,
And so the circle quickly...

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Categories: betterment, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme
A Man Like This
A man like this,
Who sacrifices his entire life
for the betterment of our country
uniting whole nation.
Who reached his goal
digesting every tension.
India become independent
without any war,
without any...

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Categories: betterment, freedom, patriotic,
Form: Personification



The Unsung Hero
I thought for a moment that 
he never felt the PAINS, 
When he beared the 
burden of our guilts and 
STAINS.
You can't imagine what he...

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Categories: betterment, easter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Befuddled Brenda
Ol’ brazen Brenda, battlin’ biography,
Banters bewildered brave boatmen at sea,
Brushstrokes besieging her beleaguered brain,
Broadsided by fiction now baking insane;

Balanced between both broken and brilliant,
Buried by...

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Categories: betterment, confusion, heartbreak,
Form: Alliteration
See Myself
see myself doing it
see myself living it 
see myself going down that path
see myself heading towards that direction 
step in right direction 
step in new...

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Categories: betterment, change,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Needy
Needy

Wants!
They are so hard to handle.
Everyone has one, even if they don’t want one. 
Some try to hide theirs, but it shows. 
I hate to...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: betterment, atheist, city, community, crazy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fear Not
Ingrained in human nature of guilt source
Fear exposes my need for divine force
God props me with, “Fear not… I am thy shield…”
So I triumphantly trust...

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Categories: betterment, appreciation, christian, faith, fear,
Form: Rubaiyat
A Life of Love and Light
Approaching life with love

Lived with an open heart,

Irrespective of others differences

Fundamentally shining light,

Everyone welcome to join me,

Oneness and unity on mass

Favouring love over hate,

Lighting a...

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Categories: betterment, hate, jealousy, life, love,
Form: Acrostic
The Tear Collector
The Tear Collector


Tears they fall, sometimes bless-ed
In their burning
Watered reminders of a hearts capacity
To connect emotions
Soft welling they sting
And find their language of wet lashes
Run...

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Categories: betterment, life, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Opportunity
We are living in a time of crisis
but we also live in a time of opportunity
There is always an opportunity to be better,
For the time...

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Categories: betterment, appreciation, baptism, beauty, character,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Redirect Your Anger
It’s  so much chaos in the 
world and folk are just mad.

When that happens all hell
breaks loose.

Then on lookers say, why
are they so mad...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: betterment, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Miracles Do Happen
I find listening to music very therapeutic.
All types of music be it opera to jazz can change a person's mood
in minutes lifting spirits to great...

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Categories: betterment, 10th grade,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs