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Strove Poems - Poems about Strove

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 s......

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Categories: strove, allusion, endurance, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Venture
...In better days of better ways we chanced upon the mind Of great and grand adventure, of great and grand design To sail the open seas coursing near and far Uncharted in the ways, unguided by the st......

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Categories: strove, adventure, allusion, boat, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cubby's
...At Cubby's, the neon hums/ A beacon in the night/ A place for solace/ But now a source of plight/ I stood there, a truth on my lips, unplanned/ Asked the clerk to be kind, to lend a gentler hand......

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Categories: strove, betrayal, corruption, evil, fate,
Form: Free verse
A dance with the darkness
...She made a little house, Deep in a vast valley, Surrounded by blooming flowers And fluttering butterflies. She lay on the silky green meadow, Immersed in the gentle harmony of silence.......

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Categories: strove, abuse, anxiety, courage, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Happiness Is A Distant Beach
...I have a secret happy place that's deep inside my head, It's where I like to visit every night when I'm in bed. I travel there by boat, the sail flaps gently on the mast, The ocean shines a millio......

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Categories: strove, beach, boat, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme



Princess
...Ah, princess dear, with the soul of a dove And purer wings than gods above A vision of splendor in gowns of white A seraph in heaven’s golden light How you graced the estate of the crown Whi......

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Categories: strove, princess,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Exuberant heart
...They hailed him as a hero, it turned out he was a fool, I followed the herd, but forgot this basic rule: Check the car works, before you drive it down the hill The speedbump of reality undoes the ......

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Categories: strove, character, innocence,
Form: Lyric
The Man I Once Cherished
...With heavy heart, in depths of sorrow drowned, I stand, an image of esteem unbound, A man whom I did raise in high regard, His truth, alas, has struck me much too hard. His actions 'gainst my n......

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Categories: strove, anger, grief, hate,
Form: Other
The Forgotten Bards: Song of the Classical Minstrels
... Forever extinct seems the age of classical poetry, With all its cheers from caves, cottages, marble domes and temples, When now a country honors not classical bards: O Hugh MacDiarmid, Petrarc......

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Categories: strove, allusion, appreciation, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Ode
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updated
...Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated Steely Dan sing queen (me) outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary after Grahame Wood determined to meet the evolving needs of the communi......

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Categories: strove, america, anger, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Quest
...I battled against the sharp stinging slaps I received Seems life decided against me or so I believed. Retired from work at first some just tranquil peace increased, Till one by one, all my relativ......

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Categories: strove, abuse, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Poet Plus Teacher- PS
...Was it a sheer accident that I became a poet? Poetry, I didn’t pursue, rather it cropped up As a late-night guest, quite unexpected. A teacher’s career, I have been bent upon And pref......

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Categories: strove, destiny, inspirational, passion,
Form: Free verse
The Starry Night
... The starry night the skies bestow upon us earthlings here below gives rise to ever wondrous gaze and sights o’erwhelming to amaze as in the painting by van Gogh, that grand impressionistic......

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Categories: strove, appreciation, art, imagination, space,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member I Can Move Mountains
... As the ‘tick-tock’ sound falls in my ears, and its incessant refrain drops like a thud, My memory unwinds to years fled when we grew up under our parental roof. Plodding miles through count......

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Categories: strove, appreciation, love, sister,
Form: Free verse
Twenty first century civilization gone I askew
...Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew. Ah... what luxury to wax poetic as freedom to trumpet thoughts, ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane, especially if president number forty ......

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Categories: strove, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

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