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Best Action Poems

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Premium Member Words and Action
Pray for potatoes, but pick up a hoe
Make a commitment and reap what you sow.


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Categories: action, faith,
Form: Couplet
Action
He’s in a bunker in his 
Head; outside the 
World is all but dead
Protect the cause at
Any cost; he holds his
Nerve, resolve embossed
What will happen...

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Categories: action, death
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lights, Camera, Action

Sweat drips backstage, mouth parched, heart beating at a sprinter's pace.
All eyes on me, as lights dim with spotlight honing on mic and lips.
Words flow...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: action, art, spoken word,
Form: Sijo

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Zero Action Without Any Options
The thoughts are risen:
            But nobody to listen;
Having unclear vision:
With no proper decision;
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© V. Deepa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: action, confusion, lonely, society, stress,
Form: Rhyme
AND ACTION
when I leave the house
sheep have been arranged in fields
and the allocations of cars 
have been made for today’s passing
with scripts sent out nightly
to those...

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Categories: action, humorous, life, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Movie Action King
F-lick
U-p
N-ext
O-pens
M-aking

M-ovie
A-ction
K-ing
A-chieve
M-uch
A-ttention

Topic: Poet (Funom Makama) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Categories: action, poets,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member A Call To Action
from "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke:
"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going...

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Categories: action, education, fear, friendship, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Love Is An Action
Love is not a thing
To admire, or look at
If you keep peeling
As you do an onion
To undress or uncoat
To figure it out
You'll end up with...

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Categories: action, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Call To Action
There may be troubled times ahead
if things do not change.
In as little as 30 years monsoons could stop
this is due to deforestation.
To avoid this happening...

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Categories: action, earth, water,
Form: Narrative
Lights , Action ..
Tinseltown .. Hollywood's not just for Christmas .



Inspired for Raul's 6 word story contest ....

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: action, holiday
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Comedy
Panicked trips down the rabbit hole goes as follows,
Far beneath the depths and hollows.
Way before first breath of plaque,
Meaningless so void and vague.
Til death you...

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Categories: action, allusion, farewell, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Courage
*** COURAGE ***

To wake up.
To stand?
To step out.
Avoid thinking 
    “can’t” and “but.”
Surrender worries
     into the hands of...

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Categories: action, christian, courage, hope, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Make a Choice
Take a moment,
stop and think.

If you're thirsty,
have a drink.

Slow the pace,
and settle down.

Decide if which,
to smile or frown.

It's up to you,
to make a choice.

To remain...

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Categories: action, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Shiftless Core
One heart, one mind,
Making music, divine.
One battle, one beat,
All gather in one to defeat!

It’s time to be bold,
And not overbearing,
To help bring forth light,
And healing...

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Categories: action, encouraging, faith, gospel, humanity,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Love's Spirit Speaks To Us
Love’s Spirit Speaks to Us

Love’s spirit speaks to us with deepest emotion, 
Giving us all that touch of God’s true love divine,
Whilst helping us find...

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Categories: action, allegory, devotion, emotions, god,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry