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Best Heroism Poems

Below are the all-time best Heroism poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of heroism poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Hellish Heroism Devilish Deeds-W
Saddam Hussein has outlived all adjectives,
A demagogue, an anti-Christ, a dictator
Was he the hero larger-than-life images
A tyrant, Baghdad butcher, a monster.

Raising one’s voice against him...

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Categories: heroism, political,
Form: Sonnet



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: heroism, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member View From the Prism of 'Ism'
socialism  communism  fascism   despotism
  buddhism  catholicism  hinduism  zoroastrianism  
territorialism  colonialism   imperialism  ...

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Categories: heroism, satire, society, truth, word
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Veterans- -Day Out
Veterans Day Out..

"To all of us from America, and beyond.
We hold a connection that will forever bond.
The reflection Of Veterans Day, 
We'll march with gratitude...

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Categories: heroism, devotion, history,
Form: Couplet
Salutations To Tiranga -Indian National Flag
Salutations to Tiranga (Indian National Flag)


Mother India was freed from the British shackles...
To tyranny we bid adieu, new freedom welcomed!
'Tiranga' with due honour, replaced the...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heroism, appreciation, art, patriotic, remember,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ode To Vigan City
Take your halcyon moment, have your blissful jaunt
Explore the northern hills and rivers, their helix flaunts
From zigzag paths of the south, from verdant plains of...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heroism, beauty, dedication, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At Dunkirk
At
Dunkirk,
where thousands
of stranded men
lined a bloody beach,
hope was draining with each
air strike delivered by the
unrelenting Germans’ aircraft.
Cold, starved, and injured men watched from shore -
their...

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Categories: heroism, courage, world war ii,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member From 'Ancient Greece'
Love of truth
the very light of Greece
A peninsula thrust out
like a bony hand,
‘God-tormented Greece,’
Zeus exclaimed, 
“I shall give man ‘an evil,’ as the price of...

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Categories: heroism, change, mythology, society,
Form: Free verse
Aztec Summer
The Mexican midsummer sun
beamed down mercilessly, vertically,
so that men's heads and shoulders glowed
but their faces, and every human expression,
disappeared, dark and intense in the radiant...

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Categories: heroism, dream, football, hero,
Form: Free verse
The Somme
The Somme, that's where true heroes fell.
   No future now war is the thief.
   Their sacrifice they gave in hell,

 ...

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Categories: heroism, war,
Form: Villanelle
All Over the Place
Goofy-
Go figure.
Wondering,
Numerous trips to Disneyland in childhood?
Now part of me,
Shake him off?
Gave up long ago.
My face is lifted in warped muse,
Monty Python,
Where did that all...

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Categories: heroism, funny, imagination, life, mystery,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Holokauston
holókauston

Around that table picture the scene 
Self appointed leaders if you know what I mean 
What were the topics on the agenda that day 
The...

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Categories: heroism, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Country United
I can bear it no longer, I turn off the TV.
Must we be subjected to such agony?
I search in the garden for the peace that...

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Categories: heroism, recovery from...world,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part Four
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part Four)                 ...

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Categories: heroism, art, creation, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Recovery Isn't Just for Addicts
Becoming the prey 
I’m melting away like a 5 foot wick
To show a skeleton of who was once the author
Now the pencil tips break and...

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Categories: heroism, angst, devotion, emotions, lonely,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs