Best Failures Poems
Below are the all-time best Failures poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of failures poems written by PoetrySoup members
Conversation With My SoulDwell not, O soul, on yesterday,
on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago,
today may be...
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Categories:
failures, giving, love, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
The Clouds"HOLDING HIS HAND"
*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?
"God's voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...
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Categories:
failures, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Narrative
BlameQuote: A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
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Inspired by life’s goals, winners are...
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Categories:
failures, life, loss, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
Day My Eternal FriendDay, my lifelong friend
Thousands of times have we said good morning to each other and
As many times have, we said goodnight,
You have wakened me up...
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Categories:
failures, day, death, life,
Form:
Personification
Benefits
It was in the sorrow
That I learned to empathize and care
It was in the darkness
That my heart spoke the best prayers
It was in the silence
That...
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Categories:
failures, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
As I Watch the Waves CrashFrom precipice of memories, flashbacks nostalgic billow,
Thinking of you as I ruminate, adoring the views below,
Where waves oceanic dance, leaping on windy tempos,
Propagating ambitions of...
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Categories:
failures, life, lost love, love,
Form:
Verse
Like the Tide My life, like the sea, ebbed and flowed,
A world littered with peaks and valleys
A painted vision like a chiaroscuro,
When times were sometimes light,...
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Categories:
failures, love,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
failures, dark, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Soulmate LoveFinding love is our unsure heart’s goal as edged on by our confident souls. Some journey through life with love as their primary dream,...
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Categories:
failures, best friend, blessing, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Things ChangeA quote from "90 North" by Randall Jarrell:
"I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from darkness -- that the darkness flung me --
is...
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Categories:
failures, age, best friend, boy,
Form:
Narrative
As Time Goes ByBorn in cloak of modesty, life toddles, yet thrives
Musing of blissful eternity in domain of paradise
Befriending and beholding its virtuous design
Facing triumphs and failures of...
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Categories:
failures, life,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
failures, art, sky, stars,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Sir Richard Branson - Rocket ManSir 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:
failures, celebrity, inspirational, motivation,
Form:
Rhyme
Beyond the CracksPlace parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...
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Categories:
failures, abuse, anxiety,
Form:
Narrative
Stop Right ThereSTOP RIGHT THERE!!!
NOT SO FAST….
Just where do you think you are going??!!
Do you think you can just walk away!!
You have work to do.
Tighten up that...
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Categories:
failures, appreciation, hope, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse