Best Integrity Poems
Below are the all-time best Integrity poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of integrity poems written by PoetrySoup members
INTEGRITYINTEGRITY
Integrity is being true to yourself,
And having the courage
To admit when you are wrong.
It is choosing to do what is right,
In a world that's...
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Categories:
faith, god, integrity, trust,
Form:
Free verse
The Gift of PoetryA poet enters a private sanctuary,
A sacred place where the imagination
Dwells with a mélange of emotions
Conceived by aesthetic beauty,
Often divine and esoteric in nature;
That comprehensive...
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Categories:
art, poetry, uplifting, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Pride and joy of his familyHaving lived on earth for some time now
Impatiently he dwells, harboring self doubt.
In face of impediments he loses his mind
Acquiring dispositions like hate and lies,
Hosting...
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Categories:
integrity, life, men, people,
Form:
Verse
Silence FelledSilence Felled
Lurking in dark corners
The swamp stirs in the night
As the deceiver rises
Begging to share his illusions might
Only behind the veil
Does he let his murky...
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Categories:
art, dark, evil, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Will You See Truth Beyond That Dark Stone FenceWill You See Truth Beyond That Dark Stone Fence
Can you feel true heart in early dawn's light
soft grace and gentle winds in Spring's new flight.
Can...
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Categories:
art, character, deep, integrity,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnet 28 'I Think I Know the Name of Purity'I think I know the Name of Purity,
It is Your Name -- it holds clear water well!
A Chalice carved almost to shattering,
A white rose, that...
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Categories:
for her, innocence, integrity,
Form:
Sonnet
Sir Poet, Hold True To Thy Gifts Long GivenSir Poet, Hold True To Thy Gifts Long Given
Sir poet, why hast thy broken thy true pen?
Are not thy words intended to help and heal?
Pray...
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Categories:
integrity, art, creation, dedication, destiny,
Form:
Sonnet
A LITTLE KINDNESS NEVER HURTS
I’m at my happiest
When my heart overflows
With kindness and gentle compassion
And feel the energy of the universe
Radiating from my heart
I feel my best when I...
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Categories:
integrity, appreciation, community, encouraging, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
The Village FirefighterBeneath embered brands of burning roof,
The firefighter waits.
His mask is on; he’s donned his gloves,
Ready to enter the fiery state.
Once again to battle beast,
Whose...
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Categories:
fear, fire, hero, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
The Narcissistic NeanderthalLike an archaic humanoid dinosaur
you plunder through life taking no prisoners,
...
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Categories:
integrity, loss, passion, political, romance,
Form:
Blank verse
In Celebration of REAL MenThe strength of a man is not determined
By his muscles or his brawn
It is determined by his strength
To admit when he is wrong
The wisdom of...
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Categories:
integrity, tribute, age, age, life,
Form:
Quatrain
To My Guardian Poet IIThere is not a poem that you fail to read
Or time that I’m away you don’t ask, “Why”?
There is not a time when you don’t...
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Categories:
friend, friendship, tribute, integrity,
Form:
Sonnet
InterviewSitting in a cloak of black conservatism:
I feel my hands,
oily on the desk like shortening in
slate gray cookie pans,
the speedway inside forcing the absence of...
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Categories:
integrity, business, funny, on work
Form:
Free verse
Paul, Peter and the TweeterPaul, Peter and the Tweeter
Why not choose,
a billionaire leader?
One who is not
an eloquent speaker.
Trouble rises,
he robs Paul to pay Peter.
The bold rich need...
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Categories:
integrity, anxiety, celebrity, confusion, environment,
Form:
Political Verse
The Message that Never CameShe waited....
heart beat expectancy
to heightened degree
it would come
It MUST come
every day
waiting
for the message
"There must be a mistake!
How could he just vanish
disappear into thin air
and not...
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Categories:
angst, writing, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
analogy, identity, integrity, introspection,
Form:
Concrete
Do It Your WayIf I'm not normal should I conform
and seek to perform as all do
or should I reach to perfect my form
and be how I was born...
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Categories:
integrity, appreciation, character, for her,
Form:
Rhyme
A WORLD OF CHARITY
The sparkle of charity is alive and well
It’s the grounds for cohesion and solidarity
Making spiritual gardeners of us all
Goodwill marries kindness
Sharing bounty with open heart
And...
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Categories:
community, integrity, society, world,
Form:
Free verse
SHAREHOLDERS OF GOOD AND EVIL
We all
Shareholders of good and evil are
Since
This world we share the same
But
Though the dividend of good we rush to cash in
The
Dividend of evil we leave...
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Categories:
evil, integrity, society,
Form:
Free verse
seeking the divine
impermanence of youth upstaged every time by purity of heart
"Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to...
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Categories:
integrity, age, beauty, god, heart,
Form:
Monoku
MOCKINGBIRD - crown of sonnets#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans. Each whispered song
from...
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Categories:
children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
JOURNEY COMPANIONS: THE FRIEND SONNETS PART II
HEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of...
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Categories:
integrity, friend, hero, places, poetry,
Form:
Sonnet
I am a Sagittarian Woman
I am a Sagittarian Woman
Born in the ninth sign of the zodiac, I am
a woman forged from primordial fire, a proud Sagittarian.
With Jupiter, king of...
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Categories:
character, integrity, mythology, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
EPIPHANY
Life & abusive substance
Power too.. 'Misuse' in abundance.
Strength to choose is inside us
The keys to use beside us
Darkness pervades,
Conspiracy is it a truth?
Are lies more...
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Categories:
dedication, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
It Must be HardIt must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode
You pretend it isn’t there
But now and again it...
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Categories:
hate, integrity,
Form:
Free verse