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Best Striving Poems

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


Premium Member Simple Man, Just Striving To Have a Simple Soul
Simple Man, Just Striving To Have A Simple Soul

There was no great air of mystery about him
tho' kind, too much of his life had been...

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Categories: striving, death, deep, endurance, farewell,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Kind
I will not dim my light so you can shine
I will not still my voice so you can scream
I will not quench my blaze so...

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Categories: striving, truth, woman,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Of Passions I Own
Sensing and yearning allure of daydreams
My musings amble in meadows of themes,
Sometimes wowing ebullience of dawning,
Sometimes luxuriating in moonlit evening
Gazing lambent skies of stellar twinkling,
Inviting...

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Categories: striving, muse, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
Premium Member If Only My Wish Would Come True
Images of children dwelling in developing world
In plight of poverty~~ some two billion strong,
Fly a flag of existence, waving distress unfurled,
Crooning mournful song: is this...

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Categories: striving, children, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
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: striving, truth,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Luscious the fruits, beautiful under moonlit beams
firmly planted roots, outstandingly hot, lush-sent dreams
all in all, glorified visions, heavenly sent
treasured deeply with rapture stored, sweet love-nights...

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Categories: striving, appreciation, beautiful, desire, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given
All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given

Luscious the fruits, beautiful under moonlit beams
firmly planted roots, outstandingly hot, lush-sent dreams
all in all, glorified visions, heavenly sent
treasured...

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Categories: striving, art, beautiful, creation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Infinity
In the land of finite, measurable calculus of existence,
You are a silhouette of mystique, esoteric obscurity,
A symbol ambiguous, living among realm of precision, 
Unreachable to...

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Categories: striving, perspective,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand...

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Categories: striving, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Will You See Truth Beyond That Dark Stone Fence
Will You See Truth Beyond That Dark Stone Fence

Can you feel true heart in early dawn's light
soft grace and gentle winds in Spring's new flight.
Can...

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Categories: striving, art, character, deep, integrity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Heart Spilling Blood
Written: February 5th, 2024
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My heart is leaking...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: striving, analogy, anger, bereavement, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Penning In Consummate Rhyme
Metaphors and similes exude when scripting poetic verse.
Across pale parchment, the poet's pen continues to traverse.
Ink courses like life blood, rushing through his eddied veins
as...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: striving, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Latent Desires
A world of illusions procreates
blinking sustained delusions
existence shivering in probabilities
memories afloat in traces astray
If only I were a meteor 
I'd cross those barriers
to merge their...

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Categories: striving, analogy, desire, longing,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet 31 'How High the Bar That Makes a Poet Real'
How high the bar that makes a poet Real!
(He walks in mists, and shadows of himself)
To be a poet, is to burn with steel
Set short...

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Categories: striving, funny, humor, humorous, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Silver Solitude on Storm's Edge
I emerged with a silver pen in hand,
…and a tempest raging within.
Words writhe, a serpent's coil,
…tightening their grip,
A soul adrift in a sea of 
…self-made...

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Categories: striving, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs