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Best It Builds Character Poems

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Spiritual Meat
I use to stay hungry, would eat a healthy portion of meat. Still I felt incomplete, I was destined to repeat until I heard of...

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Categories: it builds character, appreciation, beautiful, character, encouraging,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Arete
Note: "Arete": Pronounced [ ahr-i-tey ]

Sometimes our best efforts go unnoticed 
by everyone but ourselves.  
We strive mightily to succeed and accomplish 
something we...

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Categories: it builds character, poetry, wisdom, writing,
Form: Free verse
Father To Son - a Monologue
Life is full of many important decisions my son
Each decision is a step closer to your future
Every step could lead in many directions, as a...

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Categories: it builds character, family, inspirational, life, son,
Form: Lyric
The Bowing Tree
We were so pathetic our first year of marriage. They say that being poor builds character, maybe that explains it. 
 

We were married way...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: it builds character, funny, holiday, christmas, tree,
Form: Light Verse
Poignant Passage
Twisted trail of opportunities
to grow, progress, change,
to gain lifes' meaning.
Adversity builds character,
a character once proclaimed
after learning all their pain
was past, as grist for a mill.
Past?
Past...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: it builds character, life
Form: Free verse



Deep Seated and Connected
Deep seated and connected
Deep seated and connected, my collection plate feels naked, been adjacent to ills and thrills of my spills, causing heartache. My thoughts...

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Categories: it builds character, car, depression, life,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Building Character
Not just a pastime,
a game that builds character
and lifetime friendships.

That tiny white ball;
invigorating swing, smacks...
backward sailing spree.

A lonely mitt sits;
bat has conquered once again;
cheers, back...

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Categories: it builds character, baseball, character, fun, image,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Spreading Happiness
Spare no effort to share the goodness of life
Put aside pettiness and destructive over-expectations
Realize that I/you are not the center of the universe
Expect the best...

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Categories: it builds character, happiness,
Form: Acrostic
Surviving a Teenage Soul
One of the most courageous things you can do is, identify yourself, know who you 
are, what you believe in, and where you want to...

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Categories: it builds character, adventure, age, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Alive
Another winding road, another hardship.
"Builds character," they say;
Well, I must be one helluva character by now I guess.
Still I smile and laugh at myself for...

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Categories: it builds character, courage,
Form: Free verse
Smiling
( SMILING )

Smiling is an action, that you do when your amused.
Sometimes people laugh so hard, they have to be excused.
Smiling takes lots of muscles,...

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Categories: it builds character, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Day My Life Went Tipsy
The day my life went tipsy, weak-kneed and rosy, I met a boyish-man. He had a sidewinder-‘stache and I suddenly fell for a hairy man....

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Categories: it builds character, love,
Form: Haibun
My Life
The tears shed and wiped
It builds character
The endurance of pain
It moulds strength
The obstacles along the way
It emphasises the sights
The challenges faced everyday
It sets the process...

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Categories: it builds character, africa, age, change, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Power of Will
This is the Place where I met you first.
                ...

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Categories: it builds character, god, life,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs