Best Heroic Couplet Poems
Below are the all-time best Heroic Couplet poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of heroic couplet poems written by PoetrySoup members
Sailors FollowThose stars that sailors follow
Guiding less the sea to swallow
And the night seas black as tar
Beyond the wave a land afar
Halyards taught, blocks in tallow
Breezes...
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Categories:
seastars,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
The Blood Stained BridgeInto the timeless wood he fled, running from the night
While demons of his past gave chase beneath the pale moonlight
The man dressed in soiled rags,...
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Categories:
allegory,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Written In the SandWRITTEN IN THE SAND
The Big Five—Africa’s pride in the vast open wild
Buffalo, Rhinoceros, Elephant, Leopard and Lion
Their prey—scattered Impala, Kudu and Waterbuck
On hardened dust… their...
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analogy, introspection, proposal,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Necromancer (The Haunting Continues...)In the cemetery I walk, so dark it is this night.
Hoping that the Ghouls won't start to bite.
I feel the tug of the dead,...
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Categories:
death, fantasy, imaginationdark, dark,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Yes, MotherLooking back to memories bright,
I remember she’d teach me wrong from right.
“Clean your plate. There are others who have none.”
“Do your homework, and let...
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Categories:
childhood, inspirational, mom, mother,
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Heroic Couplet
The Sea In Her HeartHer heart sailed away from me into the sea,
Her love for me is just a fading memory.
I think of her love and faint to pray,
I...
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Categories:
lost love, me, heart,
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Heroic Couplet
Perfect Winter NightThis is a perfect winter night to tandem thyself with my sizzling nerves
Candle light stuns thy hips moving in wine-red skirt, penning killer curves
O’...
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Categories:
girlfriend-boyfriend, loveme,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Crying In the RainCrying in the Rain
Lurking behind the curtain of world war ;
You cheer to a Monday Night Raw;
...
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Categories:
abuse,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Zephyr's MagicZephyr’s Magic
I feel the delight of Zephyr’s Magic,
As I walk in nighttime mist majestic.
This West wind caresses my very soul,
As I walk earful...
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Categories:
allegory, dream, imagery, journey,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Stronger Than She Thinks.....She is a loving mother,
her pain is like no other.
Kids taken all at once away.
A price too steep to have to pay.
Holds...
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Categories:
angst, depression, devotion, faith,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Saint BlackheartSaint Blackheart walks the Autumn streets and smiles with diamond eyes;
She's well-aware of what you think, but listens to your lies.
Confess your...
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Categories:
allegory, death, imagination, introspection,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
I Hate To Admit It~ Inspired by the likes of Hoplessly Devoted to You ~
The reflection of your beauty are shadows on the wall,
The abstract of your spirit is...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, beauty, clothes,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
The First Full MoonAlmost a month since that fateful night
That I was bitten under the full moon's light.
I am still here but with a yearning
And wonder why a...
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Categories:
fantasy, imagination, mysteryme, me,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
AbominationABOMINATION
Abomination is my name.
There is no passion I've not felt.
Yearning pens attempt at fame
Dare each relationship to melt.
There is no struggle that I scorn.
There is...
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Categories:
emotions, life, me, passion,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
We Sisters ThreeWe sisters three
Do so decree
That these men
Know their sin.
Reaz, you mortal Fool
Illy was your sacred Jewel.
How could you endlessly cheat
And lead her on with...
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Categories:
fantasy, imagination, mysterywords,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
An Old "happy" CoupleCherish me as I grow old, and am surely liable to forget things.
I know how interesting life is and the contentment it brings.
I...
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Categories:
adventure, devotion, family, funny,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
LovelornLOVELORN
Saw a friend of mine the other day
He wasn’t in the mood to play
His face was sad his mood was low
I asked what made him...
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Categories:
introspection, love, girl, me,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
A Deadly KissThe moonlight shined off her hair,
With beauty beyond compare.
The starlight captured in her eyes,
Too bad tonight is the night that she dies.
The pounding he feels...
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Categories:
death, fantasy, lost love,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Footprints RevisitedI once had a dream that I was walking by the sea.
You were in it to Lord as You walked along with me.
We were...
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Categories:
devotion, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
The Villisca Axe Murders Continues the HauntI see the shadow on the wall,
my breath catches and hope falls.
He has found me I do despair,
The Axeman is standing there.
Hiding in the house...
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Categories:
deathfamily, night, family, night,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Broken BonesMy dreams appear as nightmares.
Delusions I am told.
A taste of bittersweet memories
from a past that's getting old.
A past that's rushing past me
and will not...
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Categories:
confusion, death, depression, loss,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
The Haunted TrioI have two sisters whom I love and adore
We are poets who can write of blood and gore.
Evil, Wicked, and Demented are our nicknames
Being fun...
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Categories:
devotion, family, me,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Duh!!!!!Its been two years since I sent you packing,
I don't want you, what part of that code are you having trouble cracking?
If I...
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Categories:
faith, hope, lost love,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
VengeanceTime for my vengeance to reign
Time for this fool to feel the pain
That he has caused unto me
No worries of "times three."
I call upon a...
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Categories:
fantasy, mysterylove, power,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
My Emo CornerI wake to find the day is gray,
All my hopes are chased away.
I pull the covers over my head,
I just woke from a dream I...
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Categories:
depressionday, emo,
Form:
Heroic Couplet