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Best Motive Poems

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


Premium Member Of Me
Deeply dipped in red, the Heart of a Rose
explaining the motive behind this act
Purpose being, to open and expose
knowing not how, the Soul will truly...

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Categories: motive, simple, words,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Kind Hello
Proverb 12:25  "Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up."


a stray lost
in her thoughts

i saw her
sitting there
nursing a frown

so i
reached...

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Categories: motive, cheer up, lonely, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence of a Poet
"When the Grim Reaper asked for my spirit,
I told him to take my poetic pen.
He walked away smiling, leaving me illiterate."

In the mystical wilderness of...

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Categories: motive, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wounded Souls of An Artistic Kind
Her brush strokes sorrow upon her canvas,
as oils drip with sadness. 
He captures images of silent spirits, 
drifting in blackness.

In her black and white world,...

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Categories: motive, angst, art, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stars of Clarity
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive...

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Categories: motive, analogy, perspective, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Greatness Calls!
Its whispering gentle 
 through breeze to leaves
rustling each to a frenzied clamor
 Can you hear the heightened sound?
Inaudible then so loud...so Loud!!
  So...

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Categories: motive, uplifting
Form: Free verse
Blood Lust
Dark red lips trace your neck, trailing down your chest
I can’t control my lust once I’ve caught the scent of you

Your smooth flesh burns where...

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Categories: motive, fantasy, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, passionme,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member On the Way To the Prayer Meeting
On my way to the prayer meeting with the Lord
Something funny and amusing happened to me…
First, I faced Miss Skeptic with her arrogant stare
Scorning, she...

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Categories: motive, emotions, faith, god, how
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Easyspeak
so ...
demanding
she told me to stop
to stop 'thinking like a poet' ...
but what the hell did that mean?!?
she added unto, thusly -
'stop creating Tolkein worlds'...

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Categories: motive, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Great Wall of China and Then Some
Block by block it starts to rise, Great Wall of China begins,
A barrier to stem the horde, marauding Mongolians,
Must be bigger and better, than ever...

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Categories: motive, allusion, analogy, appreciation, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inanevilpredatorialmendacity
What a slap in the face!
It’s an international disgrace!

(Descriptive distraction)
and (subversion in action)

It’s now commonly used in parlance by judiciary
while in literature this prevalent (lie)...

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Categories: motive, caregiving, literature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Golden Horse Ride
The oncoming truck swerved into my lane
And there was not enough time for veering
But I was suddenly relieved from the pain
By a golden horse with...

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Categories: motive, horse, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Untie the Knot This Christmas
Untie the knot this Christmas,
Have a look inside
At the gift you have been given,
It may be to 'cool' to hide!

Undo the layers of wrapping,
Find out...

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Categories: motive, faith, hope, inspirational, sea,
Form: Verse
Greatness Calls!
Its whispering gentle 
 through breeze to leaves
rustling each to a frenzied clamor
 Can you hear the heightened sound?
Inaudible then so loud...so Loud!!
  So...

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Categories: motive, inspirational, uplifting
Form: Free verse
Do You Really Know Me
have you ever heard the devil whisper in your ear?
the acrimonious voice instilling guilt and fear

a satanic chauvinist who cherry picks your thoughts 
as you...

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Categories: motive, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

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