Best Striving Poems

Simple Man, Just Striving To Have A Simple Soul

There was no great air of mystery about him
tho' kind, too much of his life had been sad and grim.
Truth, he would rather take a beating than tell lies
seeing others in hurt brought tears to his blue...

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Striving for Political Correctness

By Elton Camp

It would just be the end
If by words we do offend.
There’s the devil to be paid
If we call a spade a spade.

“Vertically challenged” means short.
“Horizontally challenged,” a fat sort.
“Nondiscretionary fragrance” means we stink.
“Living impaired” means your’re dead I think.

“Cerebrally challenged”...

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V.1 Unlike most she sits in the sun,
and waits for the day when she's finally done, she's just begun,
so alone in the sun she'll sit, 
wondering what she did, and why no one will forgive

It's a mystery, Sherlock Holmes, could never solve,
all the clues in...

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----starting from the buttom-----
When I was born I couldn't spell
A story that I can't even tell
But I bet all I ever completed in my life was to sell
I ate a egg with a shell
A smell I can't forget

I remember it like it was yesterday
Through my...

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Everlasting love enhanced
when we touch in tenderness
simply days just get better
together always.

© Harry J Horsman  2011...

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I know that now I can go on I can look to the heavens and see the light is shining from above.

The creator is showering me with his love he is pouring his all so that I can be comforted.

No longer will I feel alone...

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Small achievements as a child
Induced dreams that were wild

Anything possible, the world was my oyster
As long as I didn’t blow it
Keeping up with all of the demands that perfection fosters
Not for anyone else, only to give up on myself

Long years raced by and my craft...

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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...

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The sun shines on a broken heart
Love struggling not to fade into the dark
The heart thumps trying to change its fate
For the love of the soul to be overcome by hate
 
The heart strives for the same goal
Struggling to be loved by the same girl
The...

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Striving Onward…

Cascading meandering rivers
flow toward destination.

Drunken promises—
painful hangovers		
of political rain checks. 

Lingering dreams—
unforgotten nightmares
teasing hope.

Every u-turn
is not necessarily
a change in destination.

Meander if we will; but
must purpose.

Bewildered 
                  ...

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Humanity is sometimes lost
Amongst the daily grind
I am just one who feels the cost
Of cradling a closed mind

The poor and huddled pave their way
Toward living in the light
Like others I've alot to say
That doesn't make it right

Yes,we look down the sidewalk
Cross to the other side
I...

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Looking back are lessons with feelings currently painful but now striving forward for love...

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How high the bar that makes a poet Real!
(He walks in mists, and shadows of himself)
To be a poet, is to burn with steel
Set short time in the forge, the lesser self!
He brands his heart with fiery words, set down
And burns his mind with thinking,...

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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...

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How limited the page by set of sail…
I cannot come to you except, I tack,
I sail into the wind, the ropes all wail…
You’ve crossed the sea, now, and cannot come back.
Thus, Time blows in my face, bids me return,
And, there behind, a Fisherman hooks me…
The...

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