Best Challenge Poems
Below are the all-time best Challenge poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of challenge poems written by PoetrySoup members
Broken PeopleI wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...
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Categories:
challenge, people,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Embrace
Sunlight rains upon my face
Cascading memories cloaked in mystery
Kissing my eyelids
Ancient teardrops glide down my cheeks
Warmth illuminating my hungry soul
A sense of calm
A pulsating ellipse...
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Categories:
challenge, age, child, creation, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
HELLO BUTTERFLY
hello hello
butterfly ...
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Categories:
challenge, beautiful, color, imagery, insect,
Form:
Concrete
Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...
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Categories:
challenge, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form:
Free verse
I Wondered Lonely As A Boat
"I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a boat
a shallow dingy left behind
alone in marsh...
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Categories:
challenge, age, fate, lonely, metaphor,
Form:
Lyric
Cry of the City
We will walk then, you and I
When daylight shuts her weary eye;
Down the streets where beggars sleep
And drug crazed addicts spend their keep.
On streets that...
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Categories:
challenge, life, prayer, time, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
My Poems Are Children To MeMy poems are conceived, not within the womb,
which long time now has been devoid of seed.
My poems are born from a need to be heard:
my...
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Categories:
challenge, poems,
Form:
Free verse
MAGICAL MOONLIGHTI
love
walking
at midnight
as moonlight shadows
dance on the inky blue ocean
and watch as they sparkle and shimmer like tiny stars,
pirouetting gracefully like prima ballerinas with the ocean...
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Categories:
challenge, moon, ocean,
Form:
Fibonacci
As Morning Light Unfurls"Up at dawn, the dewy freshness of the hour, the morning rapture of the birds, the daily miracle of sunrise, set her heart in tune,...
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Categories:
challenge, morning, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
LOVE'S CHEMICAL DERIVATIVES
Can love then, be based
on an index of elements
from which one joyfully tumbles,
or drifts into equations, as we wander
toward a rush of serendipity...
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Categories:
challenge, love, science,
Form:
Light Verse
- Young Divine Happiness -
She is young and free, and most of her love lies in front of her
As the dawning twilight holds one breathless air under misted whispers...
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Categories:
challenge, beauty, destiny, dream, feelings,
Form:
Couplet
LIBERTY OF EXPRESSION is HEREWhy I am here in Poetrysoup?
I like a seed carelessly thrown
upon dirty solid black, brown rocks,
I strive, thrived to grow
despite big rough blocks..
words......
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Categories:
challenge, poems, poetess, poetry, write,
Form:
Free verse
OracleThe heron is the color
of a November morning.
Fog wets the river rocks.
Fossils faintly echo
a grey past.
I shall take one stone
home,
to look
through its waterworn hole
and...
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Categories:
challenge, nature, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Collector
I am a hoarder of antiquities,
offering longevity to ephemera.
Obsessed with an insatiable
urge for accumulation
I fill every available nook
stacking layer upon layer
of emotional possessions…...
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Categories:
challenge, memory,
Form:
Free verse
When Yesterday Was TodayOn cold evenings
Surrounded by friends
Warm and
Safe
I could stay up forever
Taking strength
From the blackness
Talking
Dreaming
Feeling that I could float upward
And walk with the stars
On their lonely...
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Categories:
challenge, lost love, love,
Form:
Narrative
HeritageThe ranch on which I hang my hat, though short on most the frills,
Is thirteen sections, give or take, of rugged trails an’ hills.
We call...
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Categories:
challenge, adventure, cowboy-western, education, imagination,
Form:
Quatrain
- Amid The Jagged Shadows -
"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; "
Samuel...
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Categories:
challenge, beautiful, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Your Child's EyesThe innocence lost so long ago
The undying faith we used to know
The gentle rain of a summer's skies
You can find it all in your child's...
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Categories:
challenge, children, world, time,
Form:
Couplet
Little Giants
The child is a poet with innocent eyes
And a bumpity A-B-C rhyme,
A dancer whose feet with the rhythm of life
Move in jubilant one-two-three time.
The child...
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Categories:
challenge, children, happiness, innocence,
Form:
Quatrain
Our Love LanguageOur Love Language
We have our own love language we both share
A squeeze of the hand, a half smile, a glance,
It’s the unspoken passion within our...
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Categories:
challenge, death, heaven, loss, love,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
The Meaning Of Life
Since I've resolved to laugh at life-
find humor in its flaws,
and realize that stress and strife
are...
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Categories:
challenge, inspirational, life, meaningful,
Form:
Quatrain
This Dream Called Life
"For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." Pedro Calderon de la Barca
...
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Categories:
challenge, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Beautiful Sadness
"Crooning melancholy strains, Autumn bids adieu to Summer."
Near August’s end, she starts to saunter in.
The time has come when I will start to long
for...
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Categories:
challenge, autumn,
Form:
Kyrielle
unconquerable"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
...
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Categories:
challenge, death, life,
Form:
Free verse
Ollyver, My Beloved
"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
...
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Categories:
challenge, love,
Form:
Free verse