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Best Task Poems

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


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: task, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse



Premium Member In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
           (The Solemn Prayer)

Raining splashing, fierce winds...

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Categories: task, art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Belongings
Shadowed in the silent room, the daylight's nearly gone
Dusk climbs in through window glass, with one last ray of sun
I start the task, climb on...

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Categories: task, loss, love, me, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: task, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: task, hope,
Form: Rhyme



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: task, dance, growth, journey, lost
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Real Me
I was put on the road of life without my consent. 
I was not conscious of who I was or of what I had to...

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Categories: task, character, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
There Are No Bounds To Where We Poets Go
Where on Earth or far beyond do we poets go, you ask. 
My thoughts willingly stretch my imagination with this task.
I would reply...in any direction...

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Categories: task, perspective, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deleted Poems and Farewell
I have deleted the 2 poems I posted earlier today, and instead I offer what will be my final write.  I have read the...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: task, moving on,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member If It Wasn't For Poetry-
In love with poetry, spellbound am I-
by force, that takes me to the land of words.
Beyond control, this power has its way
that leads me to...

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Categories: task, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Orchid Oxymorons
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...

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Categories: task, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Malkavian..Part 1
The Malkavian..Part 1

His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented 
His family, drained...

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© Nate D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: task, caregiving, friendshiplife, drug,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Treasure of Birth
It's hard to describe
that true sense of pride

that comes with the worth
of your babies birth

A child takes your heart
right from the start

and wills you to...

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Categories: task, birth, childhood, prayer, religious,
Form: Couplet
Politics and Poetry - Is Hate Really the Answer
Politics and Poetry – is hate really the answer

Why write a poem of hate about Trump
He’s been there just over a week
Though Hilary Clinton the...

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Categories: task, angst, political,
Form: Rhyme
Fireflies
It's so dark outside, my eyes can't distinguish where sand meets water. Somehow, dusk has come and gone, plunging the evening into darkness. 
 
But...

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Categories: task, love, nature, me, light,
Form: Haibun

Book: Shattered Sighs