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Best Intentioned Poems

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


Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: intentioned, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic



Bold Women of Old
Eve, the mother of all mankind,
Adam found his helpmeet in her.
Old Sarah, through faith, was confined.
Rebecca, the first twins’ mother.
Shiphrah and Puah, brave midwives
Saved Hebrew...

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Categories: intentioned, appreciation, inspirational, women,
Form: Ode
Premium Member For Paul Callus
FOR PAUL CALLUS

Paul, this short poem is for you alone,
Wish you lived closer, 
I’d tell you on the phone,
You have been the cornerstone of 
Poetry...

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Categories: intentioned, sorry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Falsifying Truth
The concerned politician was running for re-election
   But a very cool, steamy sex scandal he struggled to hide
He used his thick, bald head...

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Categories: intentioned, confusion, politicalwife, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Adjective Twin: a Poem of Pain
The Adjective Twin: A Poem of Pain 

I am "presumptuous" -- and with my brother, "arrogant" 
we are the adjective twin of "gentle" blame
of "gentle"...

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© Moji Agha  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: intentioned, change, culture, discrimination, judgement,
Form: Narrative



Unaccompanied Paths
Once upon a stranger
A girl A well intentioned woman
With open and adorned soul
Askance behind silvered eyes and sighs,

Revealing her concealed seraphic smiles
In an unending sequence.
Yielded...

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© Kofi Amed   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: intentioned, bullying, child abuse, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Soups On
Writing is my challenge each day
     But it's not the words or what to say.

     It is...

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Categories: intentioned, dedication, friendship, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Walk To the River
A scarlet tanager sits primly on the rail
Of the new fence erected near the meadow,
He eyes me stroll as I take in every detail
The path...

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Categories: intentioned, bird, nature, tree,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member They'Re In a Better Place
They're in a Better Place
 
This is not the time
for well-intentioned
testimony to
ethereality
so unfathomable
as these deaths
before me.
 
Praise heaven
and rejoice;
disguised as consolation
to me,
fractured,
who knows no better
than...

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Categories: intentioned, death, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hey! You! (Warning Will Robinson)
Yes….YOU…you thimble headed moron;
why do you think your realities SO unique?
What gives you a claim on rightness?
Rightness, righteousness, right, “OH MY!”

OZ was a much more...

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Categories: intentioned, education
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escaping
One word
Like a black cat
Prowling on a starless night
Sneaks past my notice
Quiet and still and
Unobserved
Escaping from my well-intentioned lips
“Someday”


“We’ll have to get together”
“Yes, soon!”
“Write me...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: intentioned, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Divine Intimacy
When one speaks of stars,
glitter and wishing come
to mind; wishes are easy
to find~a galaxy of them;

Thinking how easy one can get
lost in such vastness...a speck
of...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: intentioned, devotion, feelings, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Breakup Slam
It's Not You

It's Me

Actually in Truth
That's a Small White Lie 

I have been cheating on you
For a While now 
Having Passionate Sex
With another Guy

And i...

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Categories: intentioned, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kill Your Ego
You alone can't hold up the sky.
                 You can't...

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Categories: intentioned, analogy, encouraging, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Lost Doll Ld
The lost doll was soon replaced
by the kind stranger, poker faced,
who said the doll looks not the same,
having changed both face and name
but may yet...

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Categories: intentioned, deep,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs