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Best Defender Poems

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


Defender of the Wastes
What makes a speech out of words,
I have just washed the tombs of lords.
Oh, what’s my knot?
What’s my knot?

You can judge the theme not.
Words, trickle...

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Categories: defender, art, life, parody, world,
Form: Free verse



The Tale of Poetry Soup Forest
There's a defender among us, a friend who never surrenders or concedes
No thief is he, who offers encouragement to people with his kind deeds

A rapscallion,...

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Categories: defender, environment, poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Hero Code: Decoded
Enthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...

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Categories: defender, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form: Narrative
When You'Re Gone
When You're Gone

My darling precious Mamacita
before you go,
before your last breath is drawn,
I just want you to know
how much I love you so.

Please forgive everything...

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Categories: defender, farewell, grief, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Silent
Those who die unjustly
because of bigotry
because of prejudice
because of unadulterated hate
are never silent
their blood cries out
like the blood of innocent Abel
the anguished cries
"I can't Breathe"
"I'm...

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Categories: defender, discrimination, judgement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Oscar 2002 To 2015
Before I knew the day, the time
He’d die, 
I came home to him,
My little smile, knowing he’d
Be there, he was always there
Always aware I was...

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Categories: defender, animal, dog, friend, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Sir Jack and the Outside-Inside Basketball Attack
The incredible shooting display put on by "Sir" Jack, 

Teaches a basic tenet of basketball that remains still, 

You can expand your game from the...

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Categories: defender, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member September
September lovely September
Immerse us in colorful splendor
The next thirty days
Please thrill and amaze
With beauty we'll always remember

September lovely September
Embrace Mother Nature so tender
She may blush...

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Categories: defender, autumn, beautiful, change, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wisdom Is My Wealth
If I do not trust my wisdom
then I have earned nothing,learned nothing,loved nothing, become nothing,
I would be a random phantom,a struggle absent triumph to fathom,
just...

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Categories: defender, wisdom,
Form: Didactic
A Father To the Fatherless
My shelter from the storm
My Fountain in the wilderness
My Refuge and my Rock

High King of love, God of all grace
You have become my hiding place

My...

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© Don Bukana  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defender, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Name
Premium Member Superman
Cape, strength and the mask- of one in disguise 
dawn, the light shinning through- here in my world
Oh.. to see your identity- those eyes
Dodging everything...

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Categories: defender, hero, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Thought I Would Get Off Like the Rich Kids
It was a week before my eighteenth birthday;
I was a drug dealer. Hooked also, but with no cares.
From a small town where no one had...

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Categories: defender, america,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Pretender
He was so charming, but never a prince.
Sweet words he chose to mix and mince.
How could my mind have been so dense,
To let my heart...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defender, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter
I awoke to find 
that Jack Frost had paid a visit 
to my bedroom windows
for the very first time 
this Winter.

If only I had seen...

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Categories: defender, introspection, metaphor, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tell Me, Who Do You Say That I Am
 You’re my everything, my LORD AND my GOD. 
Meanwhile, I claim no new answer
since I have learned, and am knowing WHO YOU ARE intimately
by...

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Categories: defender, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Abecedarian

Book: Reflection on the Important Things