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Best Struggled Poems

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


Premium Member Its a Part of Me
Our lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...

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Categories: struggled, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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Categories: struggled, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Survivors Guilt
It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...

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Categories: struggled, death, grief, how i
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek
The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...

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Categories: struggled, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Would You Still Love Me?
Tonight my ink is mute
and this quill rests in silence.
I’m searching for the perfumed poem
you’ve placed in my aching soul,
when I found a home 
within...

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Categories: struggled, deep, devotion, feelings, for
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Too Much Sadness For Me
there's too much sorrow...
don't you know
we are all going to die
a starting point always beckons a finish
sooner or later
no matter how
peaceful or painful
that final moment...

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Categories: struggled, sad, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Toilers At the Trench
Plunging, lifting, plunging -as wind blew ashes all around -
the shovels' blades incised the cold and black encrusted ground.

Attached to shovel handles were the arms...

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Categories: struggled, history, sad,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member dear Gustav -
oh ...

Gustav, how you pique the senses
          captured passion's plural tenses

lovers twined in percale folds
 ...

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Categories: struggled, art, beauty, history, humanity,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Ode To the Redwood
I was once a little twig with dreams of being a mighty tree
So people would come from all around just to look at me
As the...

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Categories: struggled, forgiveness, friendship, imagination, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Tourist
Have I been one among the chain
of those who come to gawk, then strain
to point a finger, poke my nose
into places I don't own?
To claim...

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Categories: struggled, appreciation, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: struggled, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Saints and Demons On Halloween
On the eve of All Saints Day known as Halloween
We've a night where nothing is ever as it seems
 
Abraham, Martin and John hosted a...

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Categories: struggled, holiday
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mother - POTD
shade of vermilion encompassing sky at dawn, 
pure fragrance of delightful jasmine in summer, 
luminous dew drops quivering on lotus leaves,
an almost-forgotten melody from my childhood! 
all these...

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Categories: struggled, dedication, devotion, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laments of My Heart
I hear the voices you once bequeathed to me
Enchanting concert music in symphony of love
But I left the theater before the show was over
Walking all...

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Categories: struggled, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winged Words
Like a creature hibernating in its burrow
Waiting to come out with the first verdure of spring,
The seed of a poem lay dormant in my heart
Through...

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Categories: struggled, analogy, betrayal, birth, growth,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things