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Best Goodwill Poems

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


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: goodwill, care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: goodwill, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodwill, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: goodwill, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Gathering Wool
Cleaning out one of your drawers,
I remove your beautiful woven sweaters
     one    by    one
 ...

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Categories: goodwill, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If Only My Wish Would Come True
Images of children dwelling in developing world
In plight of poverty~~ some two billion strong,
Fly a flag of existence, waving distress unfurled,
Crooning mournful song: is this...

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Categories: goodwill, children, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Vanity of Pleasure
A transitory phenomenon, a grand adulation of opulent desire,
Seeking mirth of heaven on earth, passions ablaze ignite fire,
A destination sought after; pleasure is aim of...

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Categories: goodwill, desire, happiness, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There Is a Star With My Name On It
Oh! how love has bloomed—

fantasies like wild flowers plucked
a collection of candlelight craves and desires
fill a wistful star-maiden’s basket;
a bouquet of white asters from Orion’s...

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Categories: goodwill, desire, hope, night, romantic
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Organ Grinder
He can turn the crank, to tunes of happy song,
One that his crowd has cherished for long,
But something has so terribly gone wrong
For someone has...

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Categories: goodwill, emotions, farewell, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Toilet Bowl Committee
Toilet Bowl Committee (aka: Uptown Hood)

A lavatory confinement
my$h!tdontstinkcomode.com
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If you want to moderate this place, pick up the pace
From the mouth down to the @$$
Your so...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodwill, abuse, anger, angst, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wisdom From Trees
Nestling in my realm, as you host a daydream,
Reveling in breeze of my splendor evergreen,
I welcome you to my domain of rhythmic trills
Where roam the...

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Categories: goodwill, nature, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Message of Peace
Be the night that prompts
A nightingale to sing,
Be the dawn of endearment
Enamored in song of robin,
Be a dove, soothing morning,
Crooning melodies of peace.

Be the land...

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Categories: goodwill, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holly Tree And The Robin - Anacreontic couplets
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Categories: goodwill, nature, winter,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Will To Survive
Watch in action exuberance of life
As a toddler starts, stops, and falls,
Slowly but surely learning to walk
Questing ahead in poise of pizzazz
Powered by strength of...

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Categories: goodwill, courage, endurance, hope,
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Heart Is Full
Life once was a journey through springs
And vistas of autumns in colors bold,
In splendor of morn rising on arc
And motifs on horizon sprinkled in gold;

But...

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Categories: goodwill, heart, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme

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