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Best Braving Poems

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

Because I Live

“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow;
  Is our destined end or way;
  But to act, that each to-morrow
  Find us farther than today.”
A...

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Categories: braving, life,
Form: Rhyme

In Her Eternal Sleep

The river flows, carrying her
Away from earth  out to somewhere---
Bird-music groans as  harsh wind blows-
Carrying her, the river flows.

The gulls above cry ,that...

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Categories: braving, death, grief,
Form: Quatrain

Eddy

I try to see 
back before 
to who Eddy once was
just barely before when
the bending began
Eddy was after all
a cute child 
wide eyed
hugging kissing and...

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Categories: braving, angst, cute,
Form: Alliteration

The Tree In My Yard

in my yard stands a tree
lone like a hermit, regal like a monarch
its roots dug deep
its branches touching the heavens
peeking behind the skies veil
sometimes its...

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Categories: braving, beautiful, environment, growing up,
Form: Free verse

moon-lily memories

when skies bleed 
your sonnets~
every drop of 
           garnet rain 
    ...

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Categories: braving, feelings, i miss you,
Form: Free verse

It Started With a Blank Canvas

How endearing the innocence of life was,
When blissfully it started, with a blank canvas,
Cherishing in mother’s love and warmth,
Happy as can be, cuddled in loving...

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Categories: braving, life, metaphor,
Form: Verse

Odyssey


“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so...

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Categories: braving, appreciation, seasons, winter,
Form: Sonnet

I Dream


When echoes of nocturnal ricochet over the nights,
Ebony and stardust fill my heart,
Erasing the sun’s gaze, inspiring the moon to blaze
With its tempting song, singing...

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Categories: braving, dream,
Form: Free verse

Whipped

Watching the trees 
get whipped by wind and rain,
      I thought of the birds

of falling nests 
and   ...

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Categories: braving, bird, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse

The Obeah Woman

The Obeah Woman

Heavy musty air reeks with the Obeah Woman’s pungent perfume, 
sweat, burnt incense, bitter roots, and swirling black smoke,
dim light from a waning...

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Categories: braving, magic, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Children of War

Off the stuccoed walls, the shells peel 
The wounded babes bleed
There is a story of harrowing kind
To every war
This one is no different to others
The...

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Categories: braving, baby, child, courage, humanity,
Form: Free verse

My Old Blue Jeans

(Re Old Poems)



 
A gaggle of girls lounging in the sun,
In the green grass many pairs of legs, stretched out
clad in their blue jeans.
My old...

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Categories: braving, clothes, fun, garden, girl,
Form: Free verse

Mesmerizing Mermaids

The seas softly speak with voices that talismanically tweak,
Magical maids in their mystique porpoises of their physique…
Ambient aqua-marine waving seductresses of their craving,
A splashing sylph...

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Categories: braving, beautiful, fish, sexy, women,
Form: Rhyme

Two Hearts

Two Hearts

Two hearts set forth upon the road one day
Braving the perilous plights of life's path
And by cleaving together onward, they
Transcended and eclipsed the laws...

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Categories: braving, heart, life, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet

Children of War

Off the stuccoed walls, the shells peel 
The wounded babes bleed
There is a story of harrowing kind
To every war
This one is no different to others
The...

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Categories: braving, anger, children, people, planet,
Form: Rhyme