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Best Determination Poems

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


Premium Member A Tear-Ful Conversation With My Daughter
It starts with only one -
one like me
a melancholy migrant
from the immortal part of her
to the locus of her physical being --
the center of her...

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Categories: determination, i love you, i
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Insanity Or Death
Insanity or Death

Life begins with insanity~~
~Your soul is kicking and screaming, 

Ready to exit with the touch of human hands.
Insanity rides on a gallant stallion...

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Categories: determination, abuse, adventure, art, how
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Heartbeats
Thump, thump...thump, thump
Your heart beats with internal impediment
Making each breath a struggle.
I see your pain,  I feel your anguish,
I dearly love your determination to...

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Categories: determination, angst, care, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hold Your Head High
keep dwelling in the clouds, my mentor said
and shun those who would drag you through the mud
their heinous wish to keep you seeing red
is Satan's...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: determination, appreciation, friendship,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Broken Heart, For Sale
I have always been alone
I have always been the lonely one
In the corner, quiet and silent
Inside of dreams to come

So with determination
I build and build...

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Categories: determination, beauty, fantasy, introspection, lonely,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bastille 2016
Bastille


Many years ago
They stormed the Bastille
Two hundred and one lost their lives
The tennis court oath however survived

Jacques had his heart with the masses
Necker could not...

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Categories: determination, anniversary, death, dedication, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Change
(A Paul Callus co-write) 

The tempest came from nowhere; it took me by surprise
The wind and drawling thunder tried hard to quell my cries.
The darkness...

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Categories: determination, change, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Little Fir Tree's First Xmas
The little fir tree was feeling extremely sad
it was tiny compared to its mum and its dad
When people saw the tree they just walked away
and...

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Categories: determination, child, christmas, inspirational,
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: determination, celebrity, inspirational, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member So Much About Living She Has Learned Since
Grit in her eyes beaming fortitude of vibes
Powers her dash from one end to the other
Handing out drinks: brandy, whiskey, beer;
Serving high rollers and surly...

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Categories: determination, angst, courage, dad, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Mountain-Moving Love
Rumi Verse
("I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble")
 ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: determination, analogy, appreciation, love, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Hard Hat Heroes
There's a breed of Aussie hero who has served this nation well 
and they don a yellow uniform to face the fires of hell. 
When...

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Categories: determination, people, song-daughter, fire, daughter,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member President For a Day
-Dr President Lady, please  launch the nuclear war button-

I'm packing up my girdle; I'm heading up state 
Where society thinks only men should run...

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Categories: determination, appreciation, celebration, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Journey
~ JOURNEY to the center of me!~

Yield upon this blissful moment!
In, a cutting-edge welcoming,
This minute can only maintain-

Yesterday’s journey~ Desire~

The world inside my head, can...

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Categories: determination, adventure, sweet, journey, sweet,
Form: Free verse
Never Surrender
I'm a grit teeth beginner breaking out the cage,
growing strong and fitter with wit coming of age,
squeezing letters out of lemons got me in a...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: determination, anxiety, character, confidence, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

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