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Best Intents Poems

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


Premium Member My Melodious Muse
** I apologize, but if you're viewing this on a phone, it probably wont look right, as the browser page on a phone is not...

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Categories: intents, analogy, inspiration, love, metaphor,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member a quiet shore -
a turn in the current
     memory, you, swirled and swallowed
          by the...

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Categories: intents, analogy, forgiveness, friendship, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member what stirs the darkness -
what is that ... there ... in the darkness?

what is that hollow creature, cold and callous
that shrouds its image in the deep, remorseless black?
careless, the...

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Categories: intents, analogy, innocence, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freedom
It appears that I was both half asleep and awake.  For all intents and purposes, let's just call it a dream. There was a...

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Categories: intents, america, animal, freedom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Growing In the Knowledge of God
We grow* in the knowledge of God, the lover of our soul
Truly giving Himself with devotion’s pureness-whole
Indeed securing our salvation by His compassion’s role
Always keeping...

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Categories: intents, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member Handiwork
As human beings, we are set a trust

          Dominion over all such lesser things

  ...

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Categories: intents, appreciation, hope, humanity, wisdom,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member When the Sun Set
There you're alone
Gazing blue waters
In emerald splendor
Embedded within
A romantic landscape.

Visions of sundown
Peeking through blossoms
Bow down to greet you
And caress in love
Hints of my message.

You look...

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Categories: intents, break up, love,
Form: Free verse
The Woolgatherer
Had I not witnessed with my eyes
The massive throng of empty dreams,
I would have fallen for the guise
That all is better than it seems.

The awful...

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© Gael Attal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: intents, allegory, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Life Intention
LIFE’s INTENTIONS
Across the field in wild proliferation
A multiplicity of forms abound
Not broad brush daubed impressionist collation
But gathering of beings, each one crowned

Every leaf each blade...

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Categories: intents, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Navigating Through Life's Highway
Hurdled is life’s highway to every milestone:
Detours, traffic woes~ impediments to goal,
Perturbing in hindrances that endlessly groan 
Searching exit ramp to soothe anguished soul.

Though memories...

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Categories: intents, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Lawn
The voluntary gardeners
Placed signs along the fence
Announcing that they’d given up,
Despite their best intents.

“We can’t maintain this lawn because,
Though signage says No Pets,
The owners let...

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Categories: intents, city, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God's Garden
I Corinthians 16:14 - "Let all that you do be done in love"

            ...

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Categories: intents, appreciation, faith, god, life,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Rebuttal To a Nasty Poetess
So, who says it takes ten years to become a poet?
I’ve read incredible lines from second graders --
Some may write for sixty years, you’d never...

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Categories: intents, how i feel, poetess,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Scriptures of Grace
GOD be praised and thanked for His Word*
We acknowledge as Spirit’s sword
declaring “Thus saith the Lord…
The Bible --- Scriptures of grace-ford!

Assuring soul's great salvation
God's Word...

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Categories: intents, appreciation, bible, christian, faith,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Bright In the Dark
So ...
I'm "disturbed", am I?
(So claims an acquaintance of old)
For I write deeply about "darkness and fear"

Places and emotions that many avoid
Shadows that tremble, naked,...

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Categories: intents, appreciation, dark, fear, life,
Form: Free verse

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