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Best Forward Motion Poems

Below are the all-time best Forward Motion poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of forward motion poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Welcome To the Bijou
Welcome to the Bijou

Sometimes the creepiest places are old.
There’s a smell to them of stale nicotine
and rancid oil.

The denizens are often as ancient
as the peeling...

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Categories: forward motion, age,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Lure of Sailing
Out at sea, serene and soothing,
on a sheet of lapis lazuli,
a graceful forward motion,
kissing the coast line,
sailing at high speed,
skimming over the salty waters,
the breeze...

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Categories: forward motion, sea,
Form: Free verse
Cheap Click
Surfing through social media
it's a wave coming atcha in speedia,
forward motion becoming a blur
clickity clack there is no cure
scrolling fast, getting motion sick,
oh look another...

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Categories: forward motion, internet,
Form: Rhyme
Never Forgotten
Breathe in deep the sheltered sea
Whose mist holds mystic memory
The stars are falling one by one
Into the rays cast by the sun

To settle now with...

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Categories: forward motion, devotion, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sound of Silence
That's a long way from sighing freely
just one calm brushstroke
wrapped in a sea of tranquility
to suit phantom clustering to occur

         soundless groans...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forward motion, analogy, appreciation, silence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Medicine - Klimt
just drink from the cup
as the river of oblivion flows
some try to stand in stagnant waters
others cocooned by the edges
seeking a cure from the inevitable

I...

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Categories: forward motion, angst,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Magic Forest, Edvard Munch
forever forward motion
yet we feel swept off our feet
                ...

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Categories: forward motion, conflict, endurance,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Black Africa Still In Chains
Its creation’s simplicity still stands as a difficult puzzle
head is twisted backwards while in a forward motion
still looking behind at the chronicles of some centuries...

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Categories: forward motion, abuse, africa, black african
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Jazz Horn
Jazz Horn

Now put your left foot forward.
Next put your right foot ahead.
See how that works?
See how the workings of these two appendages
Facilitates the outcome
Of one...

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Categories: forward motion, urban, me, night, old,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Gummy Fisherman
A GUMMY FISHERMAN
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
The sheltered bay disguised what was to come
Around the headland we hit it head on
Four to five meter waves and breaking...

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Categories: forward motion, adventure, boat, fishing,
Form: Free verse
The Elements of Everchange: a Name I Call Myself
LARRY LaVELLE

i call myself the man
it is not a pick-me-upper
it ain't no do-re-me
it is just the way i feel about myself
i call myself the man
one...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forward motion, god, growth, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Super Bowl Sunday
Under the mind blowing lights 
Forceful men embrace in tights 
Gigantic spectator enjoyment delights 

O' Super Bowl Sabbath show
Everybody in Land of Liberty know
Time for...

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Categories: forward motion, football,
Form: Verse
Beneath the Sea
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/beneath-the-sea

Through the journey, life arrives
Underwater – start their lives
Stable neither hot nor cold
Soft tiny eggs there to behold

Of such a time, lay vulnerable
For many eggs...

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Categories: forward motion, animal, children,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Third Rails
Third Rails
                by Odin Roark

One’s temptable 20's say “flirt with...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forward motion, passion,
Form: Free verse
Goodnight, My Daddy Love
Still, as ever forward motion;
We are all dancers at the Edge of Time
With inside information known to few...
Consigned on stolen parchment...

Just one last poem for...

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Categories: forward motion, father,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs