Hero Poems | Examples of Hero Poetry

Struggling parents skipping meals so their children can eat, good Samaritans pulling someone from a burning vehicle by a highway or street. Police, military, some fallen in a firefight saving other's lives, firefighters going into an inferno rescuing people out of a...Read the rest...

A voice called so Hannah went. She went for a higher call It ended badly, but it was meant She had to go, lest honor fall. At the cross of the last road back She nerved herself to go, attack She...Read the rest...

I could watch you all day Listen to your velvety voice as I dream the hours away I wonder, is that OK? A waste of time some might say Granted...that may be true, but what's more beautiful than you They don't know the...Read the rest...

...Since that day there has been a cross perched high atop the bluff, and when the town grew up they thought they should show him their love. That’s how we became Sintertown, their way to show respect, when the first cross...Read the rest...

...A warrior shrieked, pitched sideways, bled when he hit the ground, the Apache spurred their horses, looking to flank around. But John expected such a thig, he looked right and saw one, the Indian jerked violently, bullet through his eardrum. Just them a...Read the rest...

You see that there? That’s Sinter’s Cross, on the bluff by the stream, a cross has stood there with his name since eighteen eighty-three. That was the year John Sinter fell, but I’ll not skip ahead, I’ll do it right and...Read the rest...

legions of quiet heroes....human angels among us god holds them close...Read the rest...

I once made a stranger bleed out from his eyes After transcribing his skeleton, and then reading His scratched-up bones back to him. I was thirteen when it happened, English class When I first realized how a...Read the rest...

Who doesn't love a bad guy? Bold and brash, never shy A guy that trouble lingers With a snap of a finger The bad guy could die Don't see where, when, why Growing up, getting bigger I worship the mystery figure A gangster...Read the rest...

In the tongues of a July hellfire arson, he couldn't breathe, became fallen in the flames. A hero of life, his undying duty immortal, the alarm still sounds. As his brethren salute him, stand, honor him ~ his funeral procession draws near, still eternally...Read the rest...

I thought you'd be the one to come and save To rescue me from mouth of open grave I thought you'd be the one to hear my cries The one to gently wipe tears from my eyes I thought...Read the rest...

They call me simple now Because I have less And want less And talk less After the sting When my cheeks and mind had cooled I hoped so I have been washed up on the sides of shallow streams And whipped around...Read the rest...

Rusted brown leather Shoes worn through many long miles Pulling his sweater onto his shoulders Rain clouds drift onward upon the vale His pants ripped from each days toil Upon the fields the seasons yield gathered... Of hope, of diligence, a...Read the rest...

Ripped from submissive timing employed empowered by selfless energies I tired beneath the notions of hidden tangible lessons entrusted entangled by mastery cleverly designed inbound communication I catered to endless emotions that dissipated dissolved on impact...Read the rest...

Nelson Mandela by most accounts was quite a fella. But sometimes he was dissed and dismissed, said to be a card-carrying Communist. Nelson Mandela fought segregation in South Africa, his beloved nation. With keen awareness, and a great sense of fairness, he encouraged...Read the rest...