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Striving Poems - Poems about Striving

Striving Poems - Examples of all types of poems about striving to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for striving.
Premium Member Thought of the day
...ceasing striving, plugging energy leak ~ we become the flame, we set out to seek......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, spiritual,
Form: Couplet



IF VAINGLORY WERE
...If vainglory were a preacher It'd resemble a rustic pastor Lost in how profound his grasp of scripture is Therefore echoes more of his fervent faith Than the Creator's boundless might. If vain......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Serene Legend
...She's a rhapsodic tale of might beyond falu dynamics sailing through heartbreak's stormy strikes and Lupus fight. In an exchange of blows with darkness, she steams in granite, kindness gleam......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, angel, art, beautiful, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where is God not
...even in the most sunken vibration eyes of God behold lost souls striving attempting to entwine with creation but led astray by cravings conniving God speaks to us as voice of conscience a l......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, god,
Form: Rhyme
I am a Christian by Suzan Satchell
...I am a Christian I'm a Christian. I'm not flawless; I'm just scared, battered, and bruised, but I'm still a striving Christian. I'm striving to be like Jesus, my master and king, and to be a Chr......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, desire, endurance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member From The Sea
...If I had one wish, but it was just for me. I'd wish upon a starfish, brought ashore by the sea. There is magic and mystery, within every ocean wave. All gifts given lovingly, treasures to ch......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, appreciation, beautiful, ocean, sea,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Luminescence
...Ceasing all striving, we now make no effort, since we have melded with the vast universe and thus bliss magnetism on its own does spurt, forming a pattern that reflects as our verse. Our soul is ......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member To Save their Skins
... On the ash-heap of history strewn towers and pyramids ruined Of civilizations long since extinct alive only in pottery and sphinx They once fought the Jews tooth and nail ......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, death, hate, history, jewish,
Form: Couplet
Soul's Cry
... Let the grips ease Around my body Holding me hostage Tearing their claws deep Trying to suffocate me Attempting to crawl into my soul Striving to swallow me whole Before they drown my screa......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, emotions, mental health, mental
Form: Free verse
country morning
...Travelling to your country morning wading through the mists birds echoes rising off canter horses like tears striving ......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paying To Play
...Imagine if you would be so kind, join me in striving to become less blind Brilliant God says: Give to your oppressively militarized government weaponized suppressive defensively repressive......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, community, culture, education, green,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Till in the End it Takes you
...My intellect is what helps me. I can jump into the purely rational space and deal.  But it's very lonely.  I lived like that for years at a time.  And, we sometimes love an idealized version ......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, age, bereavement, feelings, recovery
Form: Free verse
Premium Member WHERE IS THE LOVE MAMMA
...For Silent One's - Mamma Poetry Contest Where is the love, Mamma? Through broken Louvre blinds, you're ever watching Rosary beads clicking prayers on repeat mode, utteri......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, angst, conflict, corruption, mother
Form: Rhyme
Pursuing fate
...If I had to choose a path, Which way would I go, what choice would I make? Would I follow my heart, or listen to my head? Would I choose my dreams, or stick with what I dread? If I had to choose ......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tension
... In a world of cutthroat Competition Tension is a malady Too common To ignore; Often Inherited from Parents Who themselves may have Received the DNA From their own; I am a pas......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, anxiety, conflict, health, humor,
Form: Free verse

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