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Premium Member Hero
In a world where hearts ignore compassionate cries.
Acts of kindness become rare, so empathy dies.

As human nature loses the skill to listen,
his mission is to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hero, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ballad of An Unsung Hero
Vivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...

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Categories: hero, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Ballad
Tears of a Hero
Tears of a hero

Tears of a hero, they say I supposed to be a tough guy..So I can’t let the tears show.

But with these feelings...

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Categories: hero, emotions, inspirational, sad,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member My Hero
I hear them say,                                          ...

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Categories: hero, food, snow, war,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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: hero, caregiving, child, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member To Honor My Hero
To honor my hero. 
    A wee superhero. 
      Has shoplifted my heart 
   ...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hero,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: hero, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty I know can dwell
within a body worn and frail.
I think of one who had been doled
great miseries, so once grown old,
his body seemed...

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Categories: hero,
Form: Rondeau
The Viking - Repost
Glory and honour oh man of the North
Valhalla waits to welcome thee
Spend a night of passion with thy Lady
For tomorrow death or conquest await

Come into...

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Categories: death, dream, fantasy, hero,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Achilles, the Journey To Troy, Part Two
Achilles, The Journey To Troy, 
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)

Achilles, The Journey To Troy

Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods...

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Categories: art, death, hero, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heroes

Heroes

When need arises they rise up in every town
No matter the toll it takes, they just carry on,
But not everyone will recognize who they are
For...

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Categories: hero,
Form: Verse
In Remembrance of Veterans Day 8x8
In Remembrance of Veterans Day 
                   ...

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Categories: conflict, hero, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Portrait
He cloaked her skin 

with a dark silk gown 

made of tattered wings 

neath the hunter' skies 

He covered her hair 

with a mourning veil...

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Categories: hero, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laureate
"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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Categories: dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form: Romanticism
Of Ladies and Lords
He walked with her a good mile
and talked with increasing smile,
with wonder he sat,
for the gladness in her heart;
...spent her days with wild hope ---
that...

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Categories: fantasy, hero, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry