Best Invictus Poems

Hollow odes lament where waves crash depthless

Oh! How ocean lacking light spills woe so!

Lackluster grays wail unkempt longingness

Lone stander bleeds the dreams of times ago

  

 O'er the screaming wind, a seagull's bleak cries

weeps of cloudiness usurping the day

Heaven's warmth obscured, and now coldness...

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Bind my hands
Shackle my feet
Rain lashes on my body
Prick, prod, impale and crucify
You can impound my freedom
You can bludgeon me bloody...

Still, I stand tall
Proud, unbowed,
My spirit is yet free
I am yet, the master of my soul!


(Inspired by W.E. Henley's Invictus)

~Contest: A Freed Verse
~Sponsor: Brian Strand.

~"I...

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Beneath the stars' unyielding light,
I tread the path, this waking dream.
Through tempests fierce, through ether mist,
Her echo whispers: 'This too shall pass.'

Not heaven's wrath nor fortune's past
Can quench the fire within my breast.
Though wounds may carve their lasting art,
Red traced the map of my loving...

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Here in my head, the chaos whirls -
          Thoughtful impulse rips and swirls,
               Black and white, from grays to red,
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I am the master 
        of my fate,
I am the captain 
        of my soul,
Shackled and bound
        naught pensive mood,
Errant thy mind
  ...

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In the beginning, the Word stood alone,
A solitary witness to creation.
Its single nascent syllable was pleasant in tone,
But found itself in need of conversation.

In the beginning, the Word harnessed time,
Till language lit the darkness of existence.
It wove an epic narrative of meter and rhyme
For Echo...

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I am a daughter of the sea
a sister to heaven
smothered in earth


an unknown scent
of fragrant nights
exists in me 
and no other


I am one of many
but singularly unique
painted in no hand
but melded 
by a multi-verse


I am legion Invictus
forever my march 
streams
I am of the source 


I...

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Battered to gray cold
Hidden until awoken
A rose grows from it


~ A poem on the given topic of a concrete heart...

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In turn we turn against the tide,
From life till death I ride.
For those I love and count on forever,
We stay and fight along side each other.

Once brothers in binds,
Now we are the eyes for the blind.
Laying down our lives for others,
We fight till the flames...

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It can feel like 'Fox' News is invincible foe,
Loves to salt news with pyrite to trick you, although
Like a thief that's just dumb, at the crime scene too long,
Greed can make them quite careless and mangle their song.

'No lunch ever is free,' keep this lesson...

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I  =  I think and feel, I touch and see:
        I firm goodwill, I claim beauty.
N =  Now and here dare, now and here live;
       Note journey's fare, note...

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Invictus 

The stories that shows the resilient spirit,
against all odds and rationally is empiric.
It is not where the hero is seeking attention,
it’s the nameless person providing redemption.
The living urge in purity of spirit, without we could not exist,
only by lost egos continuously resists.
Walking on dreams,...

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In the darkest depths, without my sight,
A soul unyielding, endless is the night.
Through trials fierce, I stand, I stand alone,
With spirit unwavering, when free I roam.

No matter storms that fiercely rage,
I find solace within, a hole unfilled.
In the clutch of fate's unyielding grip,
My spirit soars,...

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Patrolling this part of ocean
we met French vessel of line.
The white streak neath gunnel
showed us a many gun ship,
a very dangerous
lady of war

We beat fast before a strong wind.
Our gun ports were opened wide.
Giving and taking much
the splinters were everywhere.
Fortune smiled now on us.
Wind filled...

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 *Inspired By Nelson Mandela

 Out of the Pitts of Darkness, In the Absence Of Light
 where even the faintest smile Glistens, In Spite
 there I give thanks to the Higher Power Abode
 That I, have Inherited this INVICTUS Soul

 Despite the Heavy and Unjust...

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