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Best Heroes Poems

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Forgotten Heroes of the Somme
Over the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...

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Categories: heroes, brother, death, history, life,
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: heroes, hero,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: heroes, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: heroes, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Sun's Last Glow
On her terrace where she once had viewed a crimson field,
she stands recalling heroes who were battling their foe.
She still can feel the terror! How...

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Categories: heroes, heart, lost love, may,
Form: Quintain (English)



Premium Member Kiss of the Eagle
Many eons passed on Earth, who only saw your face
Untouched your virgin body, floating there in space
Waxing, waning, gibbous, crescent, quarter, full and new
Selene the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heroes, adventure, space, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member America the Broken
“O beautiful for spacious skies”
yet marred by all it’s leaders lies.
See it’s “amber waves of grain”
beneath them hidden is a stain

I pause  “For purple...

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Categories: heroes, abuse, america, angst, beautiful,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Nemesis-POTD
In the realm of battles waged by fate,
Where heroes rise and villains bait,
There dwells a force, unconquerable, vast,
A nemesis, whose shadow is cast.

With nefarious intent,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heroes, analogy, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thirty-Eight, Cancer Poem: For Sharon
Thirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon

Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that...

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Categories: heroes, absence, best friend, cancer,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member At the Golden Dawn of Understanding Potd
It was late in gorgeous springtime, and I was teaching my class,
A lesson in African history, and the events of time's hourglass.

My fourth graders were...

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Categories: heroes, africa, christian, education, history,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Domino Effect
When emotions are
a circle 
          of carefully 
placed d
       ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heroes, analogy, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tribute
This is a well deserved tribute that I'd like to share
For those wonderful people working in our health care
Doctors, nurses, paramedics and admin staff too...

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Categories: heroes, people, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lions Led By a Donkey
I could see the virus approaching so why couldn't he?
But he had to keep investors happy and save the economy
On his watch people in their...

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Categories: heroes, death, england, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member During Sex I'M Often Naked
You can't make someone love you all you can do 
is be someone who can be loved.The rest is up to them.

No matter how much...

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Categories: heroes, philosophy,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member 'beach Buddies' Collect 'stuff' - For Contest
Twice a month on our tiny little Isle
A group of heroes go that extra mile
Wearing protective clothing they clean the beach
Removing vast amounts of rubbish...

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Categories: heroes, appreciation, beach, beauty, care,
Form: Rhyme

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