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Best Unachieved Poems

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


Two Children
Two children lost in the wood and snow,
 huddled by a small but tended fire,
 clinging together for warmth and safety,
That was the story of...

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Categories: unachieved, children, death of a
Form: Free verse



Old Dreams
Old Dreams

In the evening when the moonlight;
Gently falls on land and sea.
Old dreams come like wolves at midnight;
Come to howl and torment me.

Dreams of youth...

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Categories: unachieved, anxiety, care, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Here Without You
Here without you 
Paints me a realization that life isn't easy
It displaces the settling railroad
Taken away by the midnight train's calamity 

Waiting impatiently 
to face some inspiration given by...

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Categories: unachieved, angst, childhood, confusion, dedication,
Form: Chastushka
The Journey Home
Restless
 how slowly life seems to flow
in youth, ever in a hurry and on the go,
 rushing toward the coming of age
living quick and fast...

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Categories: unachieved, age, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gathered Pieces of a One-Time Life-W
"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces" 

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Categories: unachieved, life,
Form: Rhyme



This Side of the Mirror
This Side of the Mirror 

I feel lost within the mirror’s eyes
Those charming narcissistic pools
As vast and blue as endless skies
Glittering like two polished jewels

As...

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Categories: unachieved, beauty, crush, desire, funny
Form: Rhyme
The Hypocrite
Uniformly swings
the hypocrite
as though on a pendulum,
to and fro,
the string of foul aim
transporting him.
With every swing
ever so timely,
a breadth of chaos unleashed.
The intent periodically he...

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Categories: unachieved, character, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Song of My Love
The song of my love is heard
It travels over Seas and mountains 
Bearing cadences that make the fishes dance
It frolics over hills and oceans 
With...

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Categories: unachieved, africa, beautiful, devotion, feelings,
Form: Blank verse
Why Do You Always Elude Me
When I grieve at grievances foregone
And sing to myself my melancholy song.
The hurt, miseries and sorrows suffered
The pangs of pain and agony doubled.

The long lost...

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Categories: unachieved, depression,
Form: Sonnet
Escapism
I remove my glasses to blur my view, 
of my disgraceful face, that’s painted a strange hue.
Reality peers back at me, from the bottomless
shallow mirror,...

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Categories: unachieved, anxiety, life, loneliness, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Why Do You Always Elude Me
When I grieve at grievances foregone
And sing to myself my melancholy song.
The hurt, miseries and sorrows suffered
The pangs of pain and agony doubled.

The long lost...

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Categories: unachieved, depression,
Form: Sonnet
We Have Been Here Before
Though years slip by through time
  if you live long enough and rewind;
  you get to see that history
  is ever a...

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Categories: unachieved, faith, history, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
Night
I love the night from dusk 'til dawn, 
It's the only time to carry on 
with thoughts and dreams still unachieved, 
my whole life plan...

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Categories: unachieved, dark, introspection, nature, passion,
Form: Quatrain
Crazy Thoughts
I have a long list
A list that should lead to a wedding feast
I’ve search in lands so arid
In a bid to get married
I’ve met so...

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Categories: unachieved, adventure, crazy, marriage, poems,
Form: Free verse
Tomorrow
If we sit and believe,
That we are the leaders of tomorrow,
Then i am duly afraid,
Extremely perturbed,
That we won't have a tomorrow to lead.

If we don't...

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Categories: unachieved, confidence, courage, freedom, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs