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Best Head Held High Poems

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Premium Member A Special Needs Hero
Young and pretty, living a normal life
Suddenly her world would never be the same
Her lovely boy born with special needs
Her daily life now the toughest...

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Categories: head held high, caregiving, child, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Bosses Son
you may try to make us feel inferior
strutting around with head held high and mighty
i wonder
is it for our sake
or just to cover up thy...

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Categories: head held high, rude, sad,
Form: Suzette Prime
Premium Member Keep Your Hand On My Shoulder
Let me not say hurtful things,
Or shameful actions do.
Let my words not sow deceit,
And thus bring shame to You.

Let my words bring only peace,
And my...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: head held high, prayer,
Form: Quatrain
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: head held high, christian, conflict, courage, england,
Form: Couplet
Grief Is Grief Is Not
Grief is not something we “get through”…
you “get through” a bad day
Grief is not something we “get over”,
“you ”get over” a cold”
Grief is not something...

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Categories: head held high, death, grief, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Gift To Myself
I spin, faster and faster…    
losing control, I am a propeller rising.
Once, you were my mystery to solve,
my gift to unwrap -
my...

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Categories: head held high, break up, emotions, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Day We Met- a Collab With Paul Callus
A lovely breeze blew from the sea
That autumn day was almost done;
Her thick and wavy raven hair 
Was boldly gleaming in the sun. 

She rode...

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Categories: head held high, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Day We Met : a Collab With Em
A lovely breeze blew from the sea
That autumn day was almost done;
Her thick and wavy raven hair 
Was boldly gleaming in the sun. 

She rode...

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Categories: head held high, love,
Form: Rhyme
Walk of Shame
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Categories: head held high, forgiveness, judgement, power, spiritual,
Form: Epic
She's Always a Woman
Woman, you take my breath away
Not in what radiates off your precious skin
But what lies deep inside of you
 
Head held high
Not letting one moment
Of...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: head held high, appreciation, love, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soliloquy To My Future Self
I often cower at the thought
of conflict, and what grief it's brought -
while you have courage to engage the fight
for what is right.

I frequently will...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: head held high, courage, hope,
Form: Rhyme
You
You are a girl with dreams.
 A girl with passion and ambition
. A girl who goes crazy over little things. But combats the worst situations...

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Categories: head held high, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
For Those Who Have Considered Suicide When Who They Are Is Not Enough
For the days when your skin feels inadequate
And you want to escape from it
When you've scrutinized every fiber of your being & want to trade...

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Categories: head held high, courage, depression, love, power,
Form: I do not know?
A Strong Woman
A strong woman doesn’t have to have the body that only society wants.
A strong woman doesn’t have to run a marathon.
A strong woman doesn’t have...

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Categories: head held high, daughter, dedication, family, growing
Form: Rhyme
She
She wailed her way into the world...
An avatar they said, Goddess Lakshmi had taken birth...

Her parents' pride, her brother's delight...
She loved and shone her brightest...

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Categories: head held high, woman, women,
Form: Free verse

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