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Best Heroine Poems

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Premium Member Ophelia: the Evergreen Heroine of Shakespearean Tragedy
The quintessential of nyctophilia, wrapped in bridal attire, slowly and slowly as in somnambulism there goes the heroine of timeless tragedy to supersede her lovers...

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Categories: heroine, angst, anxiety, books, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member THE WISH - POTD
POTD 23rd Nov 2023

THE WISH

As the softer rose shades of twilight fades
With a heartfelt gravity, darkness descends
Oblivious to the North winds stinging bite
‘Neath this star-speckled...

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Categories: heroine, love, mother son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Art - Anne-Louis Girodet
Description of The Funeral of Atala (Funérailles d'Atala or Atala au tombeau), 1808, Louvre

I sauntered through the Louvre, observing art.
One painting struck me for its...

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Categories: heroine, art,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Battle of the Sexes
battle of the sexes


~~MONA LISA SMILE
Picture Oil painting worthwhile 
Leonardo DA Vinci, look out!
What is she really smiling about?

(((The popularity of the Mona Lisa increased...

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Categories: heroine, funny, history, me,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Mother's Bookmark's
My thoughts they roil like waters dark 
in the abyss of blackest night, 
with memories of mother’s bookmark,
of Longfellow read by lamp light.
She called, in...

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Categories: heroine, absence, loss, love, mother
Form: Ode



Premium Member An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his...

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Categories: heroine, life, loss,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Heddy the Hummingbird Queen
Heddy, the eight-year-old hummingbird queen.
Often hiding out, rarely fully seen
Loves her hummingbirds more than the human race.
Her messy golden amber curls, rarely in place.

Her hazel...

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Categories: heroine, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Legendary Lady Leaders I Salute You
I am like
Cleopatra
embraced by serpents many
fear
always trying something new
and dramatic with my
hair
I am like
Eva Patrón
growing up with a painful family
getting lost in movies
thinking of my...

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Categories: heroine, adventure, childhood, fantasy, children,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why the Passion of the Christ
Women all around the world
a tribute to you twirling
everyday work and struggles
A woman, wife, mother, chauffeur,
nurse, doctors, lawyers, engineer,
short order cook, baker, teacher,
poet, artist, librarian,...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heroine, mother, son, strength,
Form: Ode
Sleeping Beauty
Locked in her tower our heroine sleeps alone
This beautiful flower has been kidnapped from her throne
She stares at the moonlight then drifts off to sleep...

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Categories: heroine, fantasy, immigration,
Form: Narrative
Groundswell Girl - Named By Jb
Enter a storybook tale
Where I can be 
The heroine you hail
Lucid dreams of soft reflection
A touch heated with lust and desired protection
A breathe a gasp...

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Categories: heroine, adventure, art, beautiful, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Waiting
I did not know that one could feel death cold in summer sweat,
as images of you flash lightning fast, the wind remains still and vigils
past...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heroine, angst, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Walking On Faith
Gazing deep into my eyes, into the dark
she offers flowers on threads upon my hands
for coins to keep her warm through the night,
wondering where else...

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Categories: heroine, faith, children,
Form: Verse
Am Glad You Do
___I'm glad you do___

I'm glad you feel me
I'm glad you free me
I'm glad you do help me
‘o sing again.
I'm glad you move it
I'm glad you...

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Categories: heroine, adventure, best friend, care,
Form: Lyric
Dancing With Joan Jett
Dancing with Joan Jett
Dancing close with Joan Jett is so wild, it’s 1989 and we go head to head. I’m the teen kid by the...

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Categories: heroine, dance, love, music, romance,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs