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Best Pursuing Poems

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


Premium Member Pursuing the Comet
I glimpsed it one night floundering in dark,
still young of age, beset by whirls of doubt.
Not knowing on what journey to embark,
inside my gloom, I...

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Categories: pursuing, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived...

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Categories: pursuing, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Last Poem
Become my air,
pursuing my scent 
  in sweet fragrant  fields,
where devouring tastes 
   of bohemian spirit,
delicately descend 
   ...

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Categories: pursuing, devotion, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Awakening - POTD
POTD 5th Feb 18

Dedicated to Ken, a good friend of mine who had to give up a brilliant ballet, ballroom dancing and stage career when...

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Categories: pursuing, dance, growth, journey, lost
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Transcendence
When imbalance of life churns hapless poignancy
And the zephyr of inequities breezes melancholy
Dissonance reverberates echoing pathos of grief
Seeking exaltation within metaphysical profundity
As hushed posture conjures...

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Categories: pursuing, inspirational, introspection, peace,
Form: Verse



Premium Member I am

In uncontrollable destinies,
fate is visible, signposted with faith.
In limitations of the intangible unforeseen,
tribulations from tangible organisms,
leave a heart yearning to release 
the force from kundalini kismet.

What...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pursuing, i am,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To My Children
Drive mindfully, dear children, as you traverse hurdled highways of life,
Cognizant that adjacent to an oasis of joy, lies a desert brooding strife;
Assume charge of...

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Categories: pursuing, children, encouraging, family, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Still Winter
Dead Winter Stray~ By: Poet Destroyer

Nearby paces, Combatants lost under the cemetery walls,
“Blessed Men and Heavenly Remedy Women of Ages,”
Feelings of dance at the beginning...

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Categories: pursuing, death, dance, beautiful, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Are God and I Have To Believe
YOU ARE GOD and I HAVE TO BELIEVE


My dear Father God above the heavens high
ever loving and ever faithful in loving me
even though, I am...

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Categories: pursuing, christian, conflict, confusion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Running With the Rain
Oh I love the sound of the rain
   a softly spoken spiraling sustain,
marathon runners against the grain
   all soon lost within...

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Categories: pursuing, fate, november, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unforgettable Rose
“Love is like a rose. When pressed between two lifetimes, it will last forever.” – Anonymous



In vast wilderness of emerald summer, rose blossoms brightness,
Like the...

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Categories: pursuing, appreciation, beauty, memory, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Mental Health
My mental health is complicated
Now euphoric, next sedated
Nightmares daily duplicated
All my friends are alienated 
Happy times? They're confiscated
Mental health is complicated 

My mental health is...

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Categories: pursuing, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mockingbird
I recognize a tune from album of your songs
And listen intently to impressionist sounds
As you hop scotch from branch to branch
Like a child all excited,...

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Categories: pursuing, bird, song,
Form: Personification
Would You Love Me
Would You Love Me If I Wasn’t A Poet?

Would you love me if I wasn’t a poet?
Writing between the rhymes
Building beautifully a wonder from words
Sculpting...

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Categories: pursuing, art, dedication, deep, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Urban Legend
*Murder most foul. Rod Serling, Stephen King or Ellery Queen?


Picturesque place on the edge of nowhere, small town American life.
Suddenly subject to media glare, reports...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pursuing, murder, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs