Best Legend Poems
Below are the all-time best Legend poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of legend poems written by PoetrySoup members
Legend of SilenceTo the legend of silence
that speaks in trembling stillness
I’ve seen your halcyon halo~
that illuminates wilted weeds
and tilted tendrils
unfolding perfumed wings,
allowing sizzling seas of...
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Categories:
legend, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
A Legend In His Own MindWho was that masked man?!?
Brian Williams, rides again.
He was in Amilia Earhart's plane;
even rode with the Dalton Gang.
The day the Titanic went down;
In the rescue...
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Categories:
legend, silly, slam, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...
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Categories:
legend, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi
I had heard the legend of...
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Categories:
legend, appreciation, love,
Form:
Epic
Indian Girl--Virginia Slim--
Different eyes, the same world
Ancient skin, dirty Indian Girl
Smokey, eyes, exotic raven hair
---Now listen to the colors, of transformation,
On...
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Categories:
legend, adventure, girl, life, native
Form:
Ballad
Portrait of NatureEach element of who she is, is scattered on the grass,
with the scent of earth, the drop of rain,
where dew reflects a sky...
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Categories:
legend, earth, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Who I Would Bring BackWho would I bring back, if I had only one
Perhaps a great leader, Kennedy or Lincoln
Or I could choose a musical icon
Such as John Lennon...
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Categories:
legend, memory, mother, nostalgia, woman,
Form:
Couplet
Jack Ellison TributeEighty two years young, but still a trooper,
pen writes daily, he's an evergreen souper.
Behold the limerick king and his wisdom,
providing laughs from his humorous kingdom.
Five...
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Categories:
legend, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Pass the Light House~ CALYPSO ~
Odyssey of the open ocean
Eclipsing the performance of Heaven's delight
A beautiful name whispered along the night
Calypso enhanced with enchanted lullabies...
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Categories:
legend, adventure, beauty, desire, journey,
Form:
Alliteration
Mohammed AliMohammed Ali
Cassius Clay
The Legend
He was not a humble man
Everything he did, was big and grand
He taunted and barbed with poetic flair
His opponents he angered
Entertainment in...
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Categories:
legend, beauty, bible, character, christian,
Form:
Free verse
A Tale of Billy the KidWilliam Bonny AKA Billy The Kid
A Tale Of Billy The Kid
By Robert Gorelick
“Quien esta?”
Bang! It’s over,
you’re a legend now,
Billy.
Born in Hell’s Kitchen...
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Categories:
legend, character, death,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Soaring Hawk - a Haiku SeriesSoaring Hawk poised high
Back drop a deep sapphire sky
Winds in attendance
Mighty wings unfold
Caressing the Wind Spirits
They lift and support
Circling Hawk perceives
Rainbow circle on a...
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Categories:
legend, beach, beauty, bird, flower,
Form:
Haiku
- the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...
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Categories:
legend, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
The Devil's TideI looked up at a silver moon
Peering through a cloud of misty gloom
As we sailed across the Atlantic Sea
That fateful night in...
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Categories:
legend, adventure, angel, june, life,
Form:
Alliteration
Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"
The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson
Life spent in The Hard Sell
Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia
mouth sucking a loaded gun
blue ribbonned...
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Categories:
legend, abuse, addiction, angel, depression,
Form:
Free verse