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Best Vigilance Poems

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


Premium Member To a Lighthouse
Sentinel of water’s beauty and breadth,
grand messenger of danger
so statuesque around an ocean's expanse--
O beaming guardian of light
Moon and waves crest upon dark of eve,
it’s...

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Categories: vigilance, devotion, light,
Form: Ode



Percivals Promise!
The soul is but a vast ocean of vigilance

Streaming with incresent colours towards life

Infinite within its parhelion possibilities

Relentlessly searching, betwixt the everflowing tides

Whereupon all things...

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Categories: vigilance, faith, life, love, time,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Red Sweat
Your silence,
a stillness of alluring patience
seductive in it's resilience,
suspicious magnificence, 
unmatched beauty demanding vigilance
making this man rowdy and restless for your finesse,
distressed by this drama...

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Categories: vigilance, desire, devotion, feelings, heart,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member For the Love of Lexicon
My Mother taught me
how to see through language, 
paper was rare, iron ink wasn't free
so she sold some jewelry for porcelain lettering, 
and we clapped...

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Categories: vigilance, dedication, history, passion,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron

Oh Great Blue Heron found along our shores,
Your stately presence in the water shows
A setting so sublime in quiet marsh
Where flowing grasses sway...

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Categories: vigilance, beauty, bird, nature,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member A Lion Looms Listless
A cold lion roams, doctrinaire and sterile,
The expanse of Africa offers him no sanctuary, the Saringehti no salvation,
He can only smell the scent of his...

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Categories: vigilance, character,
Form: Epic
Apology Letter To My Mama
Dear mama,
I apologize for the aches,
And all the pain,
I apologize for struggle in your 
heart,
Torturing your veins,
I apologize for the stressful tears,
On account of non-listening...

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Categories: vigilance, caregiving, childhood, dedication, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lighthouse
Mute
but immutable.
Unmoving, unmoveable;
timeless, yet tireless.
Solitary stalwart sentinel
surveils undulating horizon.

Aberrant, achromatic clouds
pock-mark the skies, as distant
rumblings herald his adversary's
latest gambit in their age-old conflict.

The wrath of...

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Categories: vigilance, light, metaphor, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
Autumnal Days In America

It’s autumn time in America,
the colors are changing ...
(it’s alt right to gasp in whited disbelief)
as poplar majority, quaking Aspen leaves
slowly fall off 
the John...

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Categories: vigilance, allusion, autumn, perspective, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Nightscapes
Late night summons madmen, 
madams, bold streetwalkers,
picking pennies from the gutters
as the merchants close their shutters
and the homeless crouch in doorways
in their rags, against the...

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Categories: vigilance, on writing and words,
Form: Verse
Lessons From the Jungle
Animals animals all we are
Have come from the jungle that's oh so far!
Happily happily we came dancing here
With many lessons that you all have to...

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Categories: vigilance, kid, kindergarten,
Form: Rhyme
Only a Moment
The whole of a journey still to be traveled
is much like a novel begun
with threads of the story not yet unraveled
and windings of plot to...

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Categories: vigilance, adventure, future, journey, life,
Form: Ballad
Light In the Darkness 2
Candles burn low flickering,
brilliance ebbs with each flurry;
Focus fades midst bickering
waxing cold, dreams get blurry.
Slipping away, day by day

Wicks grow short the consequence
of waste and...

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Categories: vigilance, 11th grade, allegory, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yggdrasils Wizened Sprite
Every tree has its sprite,
a living deity ever vigilant of its needs.

Great Yggdrasil 
ancient tree of life
holds her sprite within
her wending, winding arms;
a caress of...

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Categories: vigilance, myth, mythology, nature, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She's Blowing In the Wind
My alegence is pledged to one who blows in the wind              ...

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Categories: vigilance, america, beauty, christian, devotion,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things