Striving Poems - Poems about Striving

What’s the point? she asked. It could be a simple solution, he quipped. With much to do and little to gain, The effort remained unattainable rain. So onward she strove Observed by those who stood beyond the boundaries Doing much and yet ignoring them She left having been a bothersome chagrin. ...

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Family is not anything But everything Family the root You the offspring God chosen To walk side by side Through all seasons without leaving. Tribes not a language Rather your people With same Heart and spirit But different goals Sharing same dreams Supporting each other relentlessly Family and tribe Never to be traded Neither be disputed But to...

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We are not perfect We all have scars We all have fears We all have pain We all have our imperfections Because perfections can not simply exist In the human spirit for long There are the moments in everyone lives Where glimpses of perfection appear in our day Finally learning a new skill Achieving that goal Putting the finishing touches on work of art A freshly...

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Wealthy I have a dream of affluence. Of dripping gold and bread.. To feed the mouths of children Save the hungry from their dread I have a hope of heaven. Where the generous are free To liberate the captives Where compassion is the key It's not the stash I'm after. It's genuinely not. My rainbow ends with colours Not some ever roving pot...

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Stopped an angel on the hill a wildflower growing amid impossible through cracks in the palm reflecting some deep feelings motivating you to follow across the water, driven by tides she is in the crescent phase In a nutshell, the essence similar to a shy, secretive fan. Optimism is stronger than evidence creativity is stronger than erudition fiction is more common than truth the power of fantasy...

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Ceasing striving, poised in the void We play out our life role Fearless, desireless, by love buoyed Bliss throbs make us feel whole Journey without movement In quiet contentment Love’s our sole sentiment Joy reviving Ceasing striving 26-March-2022 Quietus ...

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Cease all striving, oh weary soul Everything’s ready made Bliss suffused, feel joyous and whole Rest in heavenly glade Keep head-heart in balance From God, zero distance With love in resonance Heart’s-a-jiving Cease all striving 02-January-2022 Quietus ...

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We felt the joy of the soft mellow breeze, sighing down the hill, As we lay sprawled beneath a cedar that grew beside a rill. Shrubs abounded, meadows covered with splashes of daffodil. One day we'll be wed there where divine nature displayed goodwill. Bells tolled from our chapel anticipating us with a thrill. ...

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we are everywhere within the straw of our relationships to shine a sheen that comes from polishing each others...

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ivy twirls grateful clings to trees as God* nurtures ...

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Dorka’s dainty darling double wide was dazzling in the dilapidated trailer park She was the beautiful boisterous, bouncing bohemian other trailers aspired to be They planted geraniums, lilies and lilacs, trying to duplicate her gorgeousness. But none could compare, for her beauty was within as well as without. Dorka was the epitome of what all homes strive to be...

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Cold odd keys to lost cities glisten as spikes of torment test the frigid cold fish hands feeding ropes into the winds biting kiss, teeth gnashed against themselves. Hanging on for life Men in shirts of frozen plaid disrobing for a touch of longing, belonging to a certain tribe. Whether they acknowledge it or not they are each a star within...

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I have often read and seen the goodness of humanity The nurses, the doctors, the firefighters the EMTs The good politicians, the police, the writers, the vets, All striving to keep us alive — helping us reset Yet there has always been a nightmarish dream Amongst this positive life’s evolving stream Existence of the worse of mankinds’ barbaric fiends Cruel and...

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Things we do each day Things we do each day Learning to learn giving to give crying to cry living to live praying for prayer singing for song surviving to survive breathing to breath grieving to grieve hoping to hope loving to love hating to hate jealous of jealousy proud of pride sleeping to sleep waking to wake reading to read faking to fake yearning to yearn longing to long Another day begins....

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Striving to live I put my truth into myself attempting to pull me back out Alas I am kicking and shrieking for body is in pain-like stupor All energy is for survival today....

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