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Best Strive Poems

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


Premium Member Never Shame a Woman
Never ever shame a woman
for the fire in her soul
still your fear that you're unable
to give that which makes her whole

Never ever shame a woman
for...

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Categories: strive, passion, women,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: strive, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Giving Godly Grace
Grace-full is the lily born of virtue’s milk 
Inspiring me with petals pure in my hour of need -
Vow and vim of passion vivid and...

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Categories: strive, appreciation, faith, god, jesus,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Liberty of Expression Is Here
Why I am here in Poetrysoup?

I like a seed carelessly thrown 
upon dirty solid black, brown rocks,
I strive, thrived to grow 
despite big rough blocks..

words......

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Categories: strive, poems, poetess, poetry, write,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Friend
when demons scream
fabricating falsehoods
i'll summon the angels
to help ease your mind

when you feel damaged
too broken to whisper
in dull blank darkness
i'll illuminate like stars

when dreams are...

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Categories: strive, community, emotions, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Brave
The brave are more than ones who battle on
in fields of warfare, showing valor true
The brave are more than those that wars have won
There is...

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Categories: strive, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Gentle Slam
Simply unaware....or perhaps I don't care
what others say or do
It's partially true
I'm through

Used to care what they think
of my words, of my ink
not anymore....
So much...

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Categories: strive, community, poetry, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Oh, Soul
Oh! soul, strum with every pulse, strings of wisdom
Be in the known, yet, be conscientious of unknown
What you claim to possess, don’t let it possess...

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Categories: strive, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Son My Friend
Mourn not my Son... your Father's dead
And there's nothing to be done.
Do not mount the battlements in my defense
As the race was fairly won.

The kitchen...

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Categories: strive, appreciation, death, humor,
Form: Rhyme
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: strive, children, encouraging, family, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
A Poet With a Priceless Pen
I am poet with a priceless pen
born to burnish the beauty of men.
I wonder what mortal mirrors reflect...
For me, all races deserve respect.

I often hear...

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Categories: strive, analogy, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Write Poetry
I play with words, but I’m not sure why I write poetry.
One day I just felt the need to try! I write poetry!

It fills my...

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Categories: strive, poetry,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Will To Survive
Tribulations of testing times,
when a result of human crimes,
bring only melancholic rhymes.

You just desire to be understood,
when overwhelmed tears begin to flood.
Where there is not...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: strive, abuse, pain, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We
E Pluribus Unum ~  Out Of Many, One

[Author's note: E Pluribus Unum is a traditional motto of the United 
States, but the scope of...

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Categories: strive, career, life, planet, together,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In This Time of Looming Dark, Look To the True Light
In This Time Of Looming Dark, Look To The True Light

World is dark and racing fast into hell
grab a coin, toss it in a wishing...

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Categories: strive, art, creation, faith, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs