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Best Goals Poems

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Premium Member Be the Flame of Compassion
Be the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you...

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Categories: goals, care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: goals, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: goals, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blame
Quote: 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: goals, life, loss, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Arikara Born
I like many others have lived in our dreams
In this world where I lived amongst forests and streams
Where the Great Plains stretched and our rivers...

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Categories: goals, america, childhood, places,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...

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Categories: goals, cheer up, mother, mother
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tissue Box
like visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why...

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Categories: goals, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Is Stopping You
What is holding you back?
What is stopping you?
What is making you uncomfortable 
about asking?
about wanting?
about dreaming?
about wishing?
about expecting?
about planning?
about setting new goals?
about learning new things?
about...

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Categories: goals, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Apocalypse Now
Running through the Lost Forest of no tomorrows, my heart beats at warp speed as the hideous howls draw nearer. My thoughts briefly digress to...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goals, anxiety, fear,
Form: Haibun
Now I Am Back To School
Many a year so far
a sweet sensation would within surge 
as back to school season 
has just begun..
The feelings of a child 
eager and joyful...

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Categories: goals, confusion, devotion, education, engagement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand...

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Categories: goals, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic
The Way It Goes
It should have been all roses
But little did she know
Naive girl still
 in her mama's shell

"There's no such rose without a thorn"

Though stories have been...

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Categories: goals, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Sojourn Through Time
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness in
Opulent hues that color our lives as we age and
Journey through changing circumstances with 
Obstacles that crop up unforseen,...

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Categories: goals, inspirational love, journey,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Laugh through 2024
“Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game!”
Mehmet Murat ildan


Questions of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goals, fun, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mind vs World: A Poetic Singularity
Let me lead you on a voyage to the singularity,
where mind and world collide.

What is the mind?
A filter that selects and connects,
   the...

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Categories: goals, imagination, mystery, parody, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things