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Best Bravery Poems

Below are the all-time best Bravery poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bravery poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Survivors Guilt
It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...

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Categories: bravery, death, grief, how i
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Wild Love
The blackberry's love for the garden rose
Brought down the gardener's wrath.
The blackberry sensed the danger
As he wended the garden path.

" A love so true as...

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Categories: bravery, garden, love, rose, sweet,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Poetry Pillar
When Light needed a body to behold, and color to kiss,
as Darkness dreamnt to die in the dawn of depth,
when Soul lustered to lust for...

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Categories: bravery, beauty, creation, desire, love,
Form: Ode
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: bravery, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bruised Syllables
A letter to my wounds,
fragranced with powdered incense,
every word woven from carnelian ink,
beauty lies in the readers heart,
bruised syllables define nothing,
when everything phrased and vented,
are...

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Categories: bravery, emotions, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse



Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden fruit is sweetest, or that’s what they all say
So I thought I’d give it a try and went for some today
I didn’t know just...

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Categories: bravery, funny, fruit, me,
Form: Quatrain
Third Person
He speaks metaphorically to avoid dealing direct, 
shows the unknown hand he’s against too much respect, 
writes about his bravery though it’s no where to...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bravery, anxiety, depression, introspection, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Courage
Courage is understanding
          and confronting reality...
     Cowardliness wounds us with its lies,
...

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Categories: bravery, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beautification
Corralled in Plato’s cave,
groupies of untenable shadows,
silenced their intuitions to the smoke and other sighs.

Jamaica’s capital hosted a convention
giving an ever-leaving coward’s play a stage,
now...

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Categories: bravery, allegory, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Narrative
An Adequate Vocal Gesture
I do have purpose
that stays near
a constant reminder 
of my inner child

As my conscienceness
shines through to create 
a new perspective
I break out of my cocoon

Only...

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Categories: bravery, hope, inspirational, life, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Acts of Aggression
         Based on a quote from Watership Down:
"He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running."

His...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bravery, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ancient Hero, Firm and Honorable Til Death
I am very pleased to present a fourth collaboration, this time in rhyme
with my dear friend Lawrence Sharp, a truly exceptional poet. 
.
Thank you, Lawrence,...

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Categories: bravery, art, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Mountain-Moving Love
Rumi Verse
("I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble")
 ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bravery, analogy, appreciation, love, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Think Therefore I Am
I THINK THEREFORE I AM


"An ounce of hypocrisy is worth 
a pound of ambition" --Michael Korda

Liberty...
This everyone's want--
stretching an autonomy to unbuckle self-discovery

I got mites...

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Categories: bravery, character, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Maid of Orleans
Reflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace...

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Categories: bravery, christian, conflict, courage, england,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs