Best Hilt Poems
Below are the all-time best Hilt poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of hilt poems written by PoetrySoup members
Taxed To the HiltMy hero is Henry David Thoreau
Rather than pay taxes, to jail he’d go
With Uncle Sam’s hand out
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Categories:
hilt, angst, funny
Form:
Limerick
Malaise In My HeartThere is an abysmal void in the hollow of my breast
where once my heart pulsed, now weak and weary.
I cannot quell emotions your death has...
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Categories:
hilt, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
A Moment In TimeShe hid the pain behind a smile
as she walked slowly down the aisle.
Her doubts she struggled to restrain
behind a smile she hid the...
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Categories:
hilt, betrayal, heartbreak,
Form:
Quatrain
A Poet Plus Teacher- PSWas it a sheer accident that I became a poet?
Poetry, I didn’t pursue, rather it cropped up
As a late-night guest, quite unexpected.
A teacher’s career, I...
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Categories:
hilt, destiny, inspirational, passion,
Form:
Free verse
The Headless HorsemenOn the black stallion of death,
Its red crimson eyes pierce through the night,
And the hell's beast breathes its hot brazen breath
Blazing against the darkness's chilling...
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Categories:
hilt, adventure, dark, evil, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
Closing the Door On the PastIt’s been many years since I’d climbed the wooden steps to my parent’s attic. The hinges of the trap door creak and a cloud of...
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Categories:
hilt, childhood, memory, moving on,
Form:
Haibun
Love's Last WoundFriends?
Are we still friends?
Can we JUST be friends?!?
Oh such a horrid, charity-stained question!
What a keen and salient dagger it wields!
The pity that you wear like...
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Categories:
hilt, heartbreak, love, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
A Lovely Little Day DreamThe cinnamon scented days
in your grandiose porcelain cups,
as you would like to say,
in grass green warmth of May
of the sandal wood shadow
in your valley
made of...
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Categories:
hilt, death, desire, dream, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
hilt, history, loss, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Dragon's ToothA top the verdant mountains of nirvana,
A most limitless effulgent radiance
Across azure sky, spilled crimson horizon;
...
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Categories:
hilt, fantasy,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
It Saw Me Through Such Dastardly Purblind EyesIt Saw Me Through Such Dastardly Purblind Eyes
It saw me through such dastardly purblind eyes
Up there overhead with silent anger
What a truly ghastly, dangerous beast
On...
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Categories:
hilt, dark, death, dream, evil,
Form:
Sonnet
Norse Mythology, Return of the Slayer of DragonsNorse Mythology, Return Of The Slayer Of Dragons
( Part One, Darkness Arrives)
I - (THE PLEA)
Slayer of weak beasts, ravager of torn breasts
Darkness from East, dragons...
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Categories:
hilt, art, conflict, creation, destiny,
Form:
Epic
The Fairy Ring and DragonDragon found a Fairy Ring and quickly jumped inside! Heaven Forbid!
Dancing round and round, he suddenly disappeared. Yes! He surely did!
As he disappeared I knew...
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Categories:
hilt, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form:
Light Verse
In Awe of the WindYou whine and whistle, ghostlike, when you round
the corner of my cottage in the cove.
You sweetly soothe or taunt and terrify.
No one on Earth dictates...
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Categories:
hilt, nature, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Great Majestic BallIt's the evening of the year
The great majestic ball.
I go along trembling with fear
No one will ask me to dance at all.
The lights are blazing...
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Categories:
hilt, dance, desire, dream,
Form:
Rhyme