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Derring Poems - Poems about Derring

Derring Poems - Examples of all types of poems about derring to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for derring.
Not Blessed With Eyes Of Blue
...I stand a while and ponder, my tummy sticking out my heels a little cracked, my thighs a little stout my shoulders slightly slouched my eyes a little pouched my nails could use a buff my belly-......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, dad,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dotty Doggy Duo
...Dotty doggy duo, daily derring-do, descending leaves decorating yard, Beau-black as coal, brown-eyed batty Gus, barking brazenly, bounding, both bonkers? a boisterous, "You betcha!" Kings of......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member In Days of Yore
...In days of yore a lady's heart was won Through chivalry and deeds of derring-do. If swain proved false, she'd bid the knave be gone, Adjust her cap and look for someone new. By age fifteen a ma......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Who Lives In These Houses
...For twenty years I have walked my curvy tree lined street, and there're neighbors I have yet to meet, I look into the windows of the oblong and squares, and wonder about the people who live in the......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, community, imagery, perspective, poems,
Form: Rhyme
The Daredevil Rescue
...Stranded in war torn Sudan, Dreading yet another dawn. In Wadi Sayyidna town, Hopelessness was weighing down. Men and women, young and old, Watched the civil war unfold. Homeless, desperat......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, military,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Stare In the Mirror
...I Stare in the Mirror I stare in the mirror and what do I see? An old man with rheumy eyes looking at me. Who is this old codger, this balding old shell, Who cannot r......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, age,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Drag Queens
...They delight in wearing women’s fancy dresses Intricate wigs fashioned as highly coifed tresses, Padding in places gives them feminine curves Appearing like that would shatter my nerve......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, anti bullying, character, courage,
Form: Ode
Premium Member I Shall Think of You
...In the meadow a frosty morning chill Greets a lazy, rising autumn sun until Warming rays melt the remaining dew Heavily-clad, I shall think of you, As I start my morning walk to the h......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, environment, memory, morning, today,
Form: Rondeau
Fatherland
...FATHER LAND Think not to impress her with cheap words, nor with tactics of a teenage boy, hoping to see the conquest of a glamazon. To sniff her fragrance, is to break through an army. noth......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, africa, allusion, art, baptism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time To Go
...In my old age I thought I’d have such yarns to tell, of derring-do when I was hale and hearty. Looking back, I wonder now just what befell me in those years and did I miss the party? Distant e......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, age, death, memory, old,
Form: Rhyme
Aspiration
...At last my secret's out – now I can sit and write a spell. An author fashions means of flight for dormant clientele. Away to lofty heights of thought...an album, shall I write, an album crowded fu......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, 11th grade, dream, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Slice of Derring-Do
...Tonight feels just right though the moon is uptight Still the stars do shine bright There's plenty of light And perhaps way out there roams a big grizzly bear a wily fox on the prowl ......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, adventure, courage, fear, night,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Feet of Derring-Do
...'Twas spring and time for one wee lad to choose Just what would be his brand new Easter shoes Now tight inside them, white and tan and laced Gloss saddle sh......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, appreciation, boy, celebration, child,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Laughing Lad
...Oh Laughing Lad - atop your steed, How full the hours we spent at play, Yet now you bounce to bound away, With grand adventures left to lead ... Sweet carousel......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, allegory, child, grief, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poesy In Service of Strength -- January 20, 1961
...Eight inches of snow saw no hat on his head an act of derring-do, my father said, He ascended the steps the eyes of the world upon him An orator attacking the lectern ~ Camelot, out ......Read the rest...
Categories: derring, dream, inspiration, leadership, spoken
Form: Rhyme

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