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Best Travails Poems

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Premium Member On the Crest of a Wave
Navigating vast oceans of life, negotiating its lows and highs,
Some blissful of pure joy, some burdened in griefs and sighs,
Riding aspirations eternal, rowing vigor of...

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Categories: travails, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Because I Live
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow;
  Is our destined end or way;
  But to act, that each to-morrow
  Find us farther than today.”
A...

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Categories: travails, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Heart Is Full
Life once was a journey through springs
And vistas of autumns in colors bold,
In splendor of morn rising on arc
And motifs on horizon sprinkled in gold;

But...

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Categories: travails, heart, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Benevolence of Forgiveness
On troubled roads of life, when opposing sides collide,
Conflict of emotions clamors, agitating ego and pride,
While empathy warns: let forgiveness be your guide,
As benevolent angels,...

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Categories: travails, forgiveness, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: travails, society,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Beauty of Night
Breezing purple vibes of nocturnal delight
Eventide’s afterglow blushes sanguine night
As leaves chromatic swirl, waltzing to alight
Bestowing gilded motifs on dreamy sight
Sprinkling ebullience on meadows aglow
Exuberant...

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Categories: travails, beautiful, imagery, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Weathered
Diminished by age, a weathered existence limps
Crutching dimmed vision and impaired limbs,
Much wiser that before, it speaks wisdom words
Entertaining grandkids in stories that enlighten,

Wishing the...

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Categories: travails, age, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fleeing Emptiness
Moon is still behind glum clouds
Sullen is the garb of a silent sky
So much like how he feels tonight
Anxious in the night laden in dark

Stars...

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Categories: travails, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Confidence
Quote: Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person.
Mark M...

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Categories: travails, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Warrior In the Womb
Oh baby! 
Everyone speaks of a mother's prenatal travails
that make you a part of this earth's tales. 

But,
No one talks about what hassle you undergo
In...

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Categories: travails, child, courage, inspiration, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beseeching Death
Oh, death malevolent!
The taker of us all before our time,
you grimly reap a myriad of souls,
cruelly stealing many in their prime,
and countless young and innocent
have...

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Categories: travails, deathdeath, god, death, god,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Shine
At times when the night glows so dark
And dawning too rises clouding the arc
Be the street lamp ceaselessly bright
Be the candle with halo of angelic...

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Categories: travails, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sometimes Love Just Isn'T Enough
Upon my life your winter still drizzles
Evoking the morns that arose in despair
And nights that steered dreams into sorrow,

As I sit all alone in valleys...

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Categories: travails, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death Be But a Lullaby
Death be but a lullaby
which sings the soul to sleep,
calming is thy tender melody
so no more we may weep

Death be but a lullaby
to soothe thy...

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Categories: travails, death, fear, Lullaby, uplifting,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Unrequited Love and Sad Nightly Calls
Unrequited Love And Sad Nightly Calls

Wherein solitude, shades long day's travails
my desire for your true love yet remains.
Nights arrive, I battle through living Hells
death knocking...

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Categories: travails, appreciation, art, assonance, dark,
Form: Sonnet

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