Best Balked Poems
Below are the all-time best Balked poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of balked poems written by PoetrySoup members
I Simply Refused To Ride With DeathWhen I refused to ride with Death
He tied my hands and feet,
Then tossed me in with some poor guy
He'd grabbed up off the street.
Oh, what...
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Categories:
balked, death, parody,
Form:
Quatrain
The Black Hills Wept For TheeThe Black Hills wept for Thee
East of the Black Hills of South Dakota,
On the Pine Ridge Reservation,
Live a proud tribe of Oglala Lakota,
Part...
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Categories:
balked, betrayal, blessing, children, december,
Form:
Ballad
Yet Pushed, Ever Onward, I Dare TreadYet Pushed, Ever Onward, I Dare Tread
BEHOLD, I wade into darkening mists,
My journey, clarification of Fate
When I balked, black ghost said, I insist
Hurry destiny cries...
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Categories:
balked, dark, faith, god, journey,
Form:
Sonnet
A Dark TaleI laugh as I think of it now, the dire warnings of hell
Nothing could scare me it didn’t matter, on this teaching I never did...
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Categories:
balked, imagination, father, death, me,
Form:
Quatrain
Treasures of Your SoulWhispered words from behind a wall,
to cronies gathered short and tall.
“Go on ahead,” he said, “let's see.”
“If I can turn her sweet on me.”
So from...
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Categories:
balked, lost love, lovewords, sweet,
Form:
Ballad
Categories:
balked, dedication, devotion, faith, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Yet Pushed, Ever Onward, I Dare TreadYet Pushed, Ever Onward, I Dare Tread
BEHOLD, I wade into darkening mists,
My journey, clarification of Fate
When I balked, black ghost said, I insist
Hurry destiny cries,...
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Categories:
balked, courage, deep, dream, imagination,
Form:
Sonnet
God GivenIt was nailed up at the huge door,
Where people dishonestly balked.
I wondered what for.
I walked up to watch the shuffling flock.
There are too many people...
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Categories:
balked, encouraging, introspection, philosophy, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Seventeen Hundred CreationsDragon has left the winter behind; but’s still wound up & flighty as a bat.
He’s in competition with a friend, to be more creative than...
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Categories:
balked, fantasy, fun, funny, happiness,
Form:
Light Verse
Deacon JonesOutback of Blue Moons neighborhood grill and bar,
Sat deacon Jones old beat up car.
An old car he used that few people knew,
To help hide the...
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Categories:
balked, funnybrother, old, blue, brother,
Form:
Verse
' Toothy Fruity Faith Ode '
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Blind...with the beauty and symmetry of nature
Can't espy the astonishing and sedate scenes of ardour
Just living with the greatest and blindest darkness
Imageless and almost senseless...
Deaf...with...
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Categories:
balked, devotion, faith, , cute,
Form:
Ode
The Wolf's TaleWhispered words from behind a wall
to cronies gathered hale and tall.
“Go on ahead.” He said. “Let me see.”
“If I can turn her sweet, on me.”
From...
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Categories:
balked, allegory, lost loveprayer, universe,
Form:
Quatrain
Categories:
balked, nonsense, , cute,
Form:
Limerick
Smitten By YouTrudging on a lonely road
In somewhat desolated and dreary mode
Stumbled upon someone ineffably enchanting
And felt the desire to espouse her, augmenting.
Ah! Her dulcet voice and...
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Categories:
balked, beauty, for her, i
Form:
Sonnet
1942 Bataan Death MarchTHEY MARCHED* for miles in blistering heat
THEY MARCHED with nothing to drink or eat
THEY MARCHED as soldiers, Filipinos alike,
THEY MARCHED over trails others had hiked
BLOOD...
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Categories:
balked, anger, appreciation, memorial,
Form:
Rhyme