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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 Home Wanderer
..." 3. " I have been a stranger in a strange land. " Bible, Exodus 2:22" Home Wanderer Long dusty path Long gone my home Home miles behind Home gone alone Alone I walk Alone I seek Seek new ......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, change, discrimination, home, hope,
Form: Blitz



Premium Member Phoenix rising
...our muse was shy so mind was caged and rendered impotent so ceasing all striving we renounced the urge to conjure a verse whereupon we were graced by a thunderous bliss surge there’s a le......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Open Poetry 9 - Not Worthy of Life
...An outcome more preferable than becoming a slave. Peace beyond dreaming on the way to my grave. Accused and found guilty, I was not remanded. Inflicting retributive punishment is what I was handed......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who am I
...The first thing we see is invisible space and in fact we all are contained within it, which holds us intimately in close embrace, revealing its secrets to us bit by bit. Upon ceasing striving, w......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, god, space, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
HEARTLESS PATRIOTS
...Once again, they horde the fuel Tricking everyone to blame the gov't spoil. Weeks ago, they pledged loyalty To serve her faithfully with all might Yet here they are, inflating prices, pocketing t......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member hope
...hope courage character optimism patriotism usa at one time striving for the greater good most positive character traits news misses point, featuring others......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, hope,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Simply Beyond Help
...Zounds! longing for a merciful descent into the terminal ground where smoky eyes semi-watch streams of semi-(dis)information exhaled from smoking brains on a mission to search & decons......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, dark, nonsense, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
PLEASE HEAR ME
...You don't seem to understand The truth I clutch in my hands I never wanted to hurt you I just wanted to show my virtue It's the only thing I can do I'm on my floor laying dead My heart knows ......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, age, anxiety, conflict, feelings,
Form: Lyric
We press on, bound to yesterday, dragging chains through time’s tight whirlwind
...We press on, bound to yesterday, dragging chains through time’s tight whirlwind, The prisoner is not the one who has erred, but the one haunted by their mistakes. We are all guilty of the great cri......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Future
...Take a moment and decide what you want the rest of your life to be The past can not be changed , so look to the future , what do you see Strive to make each day moving forward, so much better than ......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mindless Drones
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They gathered outside my house, People, walking around, brainwashed zombies, Mindless drones, programmed by societal norms, Floating through life with v......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Homesick Heart
... Love is the water of life. Drink it down with heart and soul. - Rumi I remember the nights I swiftly swerved oceanic songs with olive shells on sandy shores, look......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member May God bless the drive thru's
...Several weeks in to this healing journey. Grateful of course, there was no gurney.. Now waiting for these bones to knit. It's challenging for me to quietly sit. Wheeling around my condo floors, ......Read the rest...
Categories: striving, feelings, health,
Form: Rhyme
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

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