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Best Protecting Poems

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


Premium Member Twilight Aurora
Like an interrupted dream
shadows of the one 
who inspired it
linger like morning dew.

No aroma and no taste,
yet I'm left breathless,
as thoughts reminisce.
I listen to this...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: protecting, absence, angst, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member First Communion
The powdery snow gloves the fingers 
of maple forest, protecting barren bark 
with the expectation of rose tipped bloom.

A meeting point between pristine
innocence and the...

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Categories: protecting, caregiving, childhood, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: protecting, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Garden of Mum
Mum sat in her aromatic garden,
admiring its charm and grace.
It was a cold morning,
but mum never seemed to feel it any more.

Her eyes were tired,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: protecting, mother, mother son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Arikara Born
I like many others have lived in our dreams
In this world where I lived amongst forests and streams
Where the Great Plains stretched and our rivers...

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Categories: protecting, america, childhood, places,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...

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Categories: protecting, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Final resting place
Brick by brick I built my walls,
despite fires raging,
I preserved paths that connected
bridges between our breathless existence. 

Now that my heartbeats
have reached a dead end...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: protecting, death, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wisdom From Trees
Nestling in my realm, as you host a daydream,
Reveling in breeze of my splendor evergreen,
I welcome you to my domain of rhythmic trills
Where roam the...

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Categories: protecting, nature, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Butterflies
BUTTERFLIES

Clouds passing by swiftly.
Like the desert sands,
tiny grains rest in my hand.
Here I lay peaceful on the ground.
My life finally reached its final strand.
Breathing faintly...

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Categories: protecting, death, life, me, life,
Form: Free verse
Black Beauty
Black like a rare diamond.
Perfectly sculpted.
White as a snowy peek .
Reflecting off the glistening waves.
Your beauty and grace challenge us.
Mostly free, we morn for your...

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Categories: protecting, animal, blue, ocean, sea,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Light and the Veil
The Lord is my salvation and my light,
the stronghold of my life, whom shall I fear?
Protecting when the foe attacks by night;
the prayers of his...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: protecting, faith, god, light,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The True Mother
“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s...

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Categories: protecting, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slava Ukraini
A year ago, the Russian state launched an unprovoked attack
Seizing land from Ukraine but they've bravely fighting back 
If Russia can't have it, they operate...

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Categories: protecting, death, evil, horror, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Bird Is a Wonder
A bird is a wonder
    flying in the air
    hopping on the ground
    or warbling a...

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Categories: protecting, bird, care, flying, parents,
Form: Rhyme
There For You
There for you


Always my love it shall rest on your shoulders
Even when clouds fill the sky
Holding you tightly for now and forever
Drying each tear you...

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Categories: protecting, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs