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Best Obligation Poems

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


The Secret Obligation
Much is said about the Bow
God has put into the sky
the beauty of it's colours
that vainly posses the eyes

The curls of waves
that reach the shore
at...

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Categories: obligation, allegory, creation,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rose On the Vine
She denied him ...
her first true love, yet she would not speak him
the reason so absurdly trifling that
it was gone from her memory ... completely
still,...

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Categories: obligation, death, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Words That Flow Through My Pen
Sometimes, life has no reason unlike the seasons
It aimlessly drifts with the wind
We find ourselves in places of unfamiliar faces
Bathing in the shadows of sin
Our...

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Categories: obligation, introspection, life, on writing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked...

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Categories: obligation, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tit For Tat Poetry
you read out of obligation
a tit for tat consolation
a "thank you for your visit" affirmation

it's cool, this unspoken rule
I do it too, so what’s new?
It's...

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Categories: obligation, community, poetess, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Pandora's Temptation
For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its...

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Categories: obligation, desire, hope, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Obsessive Love
Press not to flaming lips your tepid kiss

Touch not this burning form with hands of ice

A lukewarm love can never bring to bliss

Nor will indifferent...

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Categories: obligation, assonance, crazy, love, passion,
Form: Sonnet
I Live (I Tag Poet Destroyer)
I live.
I live to write.
I write of both understandable and incomprehensible things
I am a teenager just living the average life of semi poverty just like...

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Categories: obligation, life, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wear Only Your Skin
Never apologize for being exactly  
              the person that you are,...

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Categories: obligation, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If You Only Knew
From your invalid's bed
You pined for the beach
Too far out of reach
For weakened feet to tread

He gathered devotion for the quest
And packed obligation
Atop expectation
For your...

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Categories: obligation, devotion, journey, nature,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Faith
You’ll find that I have core beliefs, that are not written in any one book.
I believe that Jesus loves me. He’s all around, so please,...

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Categories: obligation, faith,
Form: Couplet
Josie's Last Call
You frolic with playful abandon
Oblivious to obligation
Such wobbly legs prove hard to stand on
Chameleon charmed by temptation

I don't know why your halo's all bent
Your soul's...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obligation, family, loss
Form: Rhyme
Do not get lost in the dream of a poet
Do not get lost in the dream of a poet,
Whose heart is an ocean deep with thoughts and feelings,
He will navigate through each of your...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obligation, poets,
Form: Free verse
The Definition of a Real Woman
(W)- A real woman knows that the wages of sin is death so she is not concerned about the wages of a real man, because...

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© Tay Reid  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obligation, anniversary, beauty, butterfly, courage,
Form: Ballad
Eyes of Blue
A people persecuted beyond imagination;
To help them he felt, was his obligation.
He joined the army in World War II;
Not knowing his hell would be Eyes...

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Categories: obligation, freedom, hero, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs