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Duty Poems - Poems about Duty

Duty Poems - Examples of all types of poems about duty 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 duty.
this isn't me
...What am I doing? This Isn't me. I'm watching myself Commit the unthinkable in The name of duty and I hate it. Everyone is heralding me A hero When I only feel like the villain Who actual......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, corruption, political, repetition, violence,
Form: Free verse



SHE IS A LEADER
...Steady as a rock, firm faith she carries The embodiment of strength, girl power! She reads out her mind like a political novel Confidence is her hidden name and she lives it For she believes it. ......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, leadership, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heroic Champion
... Written: May 14, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Embrace light within, never trail your cloak. Embrace thrill, but stay safe. Embrace strength with grace......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Noisy Korea Now My Home
... When I first came To South Korea in 1979 To do my Peace Corps duty In a rural country town, I thought that the old name Of Korea “the land of the morning calm” Was absurd. Korea was ......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, appreciation, emotions, travel,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Palindrome Limerick
...Miss, I am totally on the level Civic duty to call out the devil My bad deed radar is strong Also a good eye for wrong Madam, in misfortune I don't revel......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, words,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Mystic Under the Bodhi Tree
...A most beautiful day The Son of Suns, shining brightly on us all Not hot yet, but bright. A million butterfly’s swarm Lighting on and around Myriads of flowers surrounding. See them in such......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, adventure, dream, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member BEAUTIFUL HIGH-
...I'll sing by The Horizon as the precloud roboast community temperature in winds drift high As we waving bye Find and get my environmental duty To search to look today until the Heaven......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Portal - part 1
... Today, this black oak forest will become my grave. A crow caws in the distance, but I swear it is calling my name. I have never believed in omens or curses but perhaps there are such hateful th......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, fantasy, suicide,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member My Mistress, the Moon
... From mine chamber, breathless and perspiring upon the bed, I spy you there, out my window, looming overhead. Your gaze, a silent arbiter in the night, I cloak my naked shame, to veil my plight......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, beautiful, dark, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Sad Time and an Awful War
...I was from a poor rural county in Iowa The kind that drafts young men during wars Back in the late sixties many of our men went to Viet Nam Some did not return, others returned damaged Patriots......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Chitter Chatter
...Chitter chatter bitter batter I am trying to think Chitter Chatter Can I eat with you? I turn and growl. They leave quickly. Chitter chatter bitter batter Same story as yesterday and the day......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, school, student, teacher,
Form: Narrative
Hop onboard the overthinker
...Hop onboard overthinkers A warm Welcome aboard the overthinker to all our guests, Especially Mr insomnia, and Mrs overthinker, both frequent flyers and our VIP guests I'll be your minds captain......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, angst, anxiety, conflict, feelings,
Form: Free verse
CIVIC DUTY
...In a land where kings once ruled, a new voice emerges at dawn. It's a quiet call, but clear, a reminder of a duty reborn. A young person hears the echo on sacred ground, whispering stories. No lon......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks..., (a poor excuse for legs), and get me the latest sophisticated prosthetics advancements, whereat integration of cultured stem cells into custom made......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member al called - haul
...sitting with a rum i take a pen... and rye-me words hearing anchor duty sailors... 'all call - haul' church be an 'all call hall' for... drivers not hearing answers to their taverns last call......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, addiction, word play,
Form: Free verse

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