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Courage Poems | Examples of Courage Poetry

Courage Poems - Examples of all types of courage poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for courage.
My Name
My name is so special; I would not exchange it for a bunch of flowers or a day’s political power, it is very common and I get very angry when you miss-spell it, miss-pronounce it...Read the rest...
Categories: courage, appreciation, best friend, business,
Form: Narrative



'A Riddle' from my Dream
where is she? where is she? asked the emperor the lady with the candle must not be found... do you think the captain of this ship is blind? the anchored ship must not be caught... the baby in...Read the rest...
Categories: courage, 12th grade, adventure, beauty,
Form: Metrical Tale
From The Ashes
She's Crazy She's beautiful She's fire She's ice She's passion she'll blame you She'll hate you She sexuality all by herself She will love you and say that she don't She will fight for you She...Read the rest...
Categories: courage, crazy, for her,
Form: Free verse
Everday Cool
Cool walks nowhere it shouldn’t be, Movement to there, and back over, where else, Cool does not need to take the bull by the horns, Cool convinces the massive beast the best direction. Cool gives without measure, strength...Read the rest...
Categories: age, courage, happiness, humor,
Form: Free verse
Artireal Insomicycle
Arterial Insomnicycle Losing sleep over losing someone is sleep never re-found, For the years we spend when Nature’s sweet restorer refuses, Fault found not in Medicine, for hospitals only treat broken hearts, Cures are found with different compounds of...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, break up, courage,
Form: Free verse



Dauntless
Quote: 'Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution' (King John, act 5, scene 1, lines 48–53) - William Shakespeare Mutterings of awful shame (a child’s bones) vie for supremacy. Yet here you are, cowering incessantly. You hide in a...Read the rest...
Categories: character, courage, england, history,
Form: Free verse
Love, Heart, and Gold
You are the person of virtuous devotion The world has beaten you down and taken what you love Yet you never slayed by your emotion You took pity on those like you and with your wings showed...Read the rest...
Categories: character, courage, growth, humanity,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Along Dry Path
Am I fitful, fluctuating, fluid thin compass waver as I jubilantly weave lilac tree vignettes that weep or chortle, rainbow figment curtain rashly wished upon in grain smudge zephyr garnet sand raw vehicle garden common opal transit sidestep to a multiverse of...Read the rest...
Categories: courage, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
Over the years
I Wonder How much time Has passed since I Decided to grow...Read the rest...
Categories: change, courage, growing up,
Form: Cinquain
Boy With An Eye
Betwixt the vibrant threads of a busy bazaar, A foreigner's gaze seize on a singular star, A boy with one eye, an enigma raid, Their dialogue begins, a journey to trade. "Your salesmanship shines," the foreigner inquires, "Does schooling attend...Read the rest...
Categories: boy, child abuse, courage,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Pleasures She Wore
Your skin glows like a peach blossom, Delicious as the smell of Lotus Flower, In the purest hope of spring. My yearning heart rises with yours, Feminine is her voice and she leaps like a panther By just...Read the rest...
Categories: courage, art, beauty, best friend,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Playing Games with an Ancient
I returned home after forty years to my home island of Hawaii. Its preferred nickname is the Big Island, lovingly a.k.a., the Orchid Isle, and yes, a.k.a., the Volcanic Island. Rightly named as the sole...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, anxiety, change, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
You All Hold The Key
In this cell is where it all grows The fear The hope The lost The dream The success The grace The signature The fall The race The plan It all grows here Inside you Inside me Inside us The balance shifts The weight heavy The cross awaits Time the judgement In this place We are...Read the rest...
Categories: addiction, anxiety, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse
Stopping By
Here I lie in a hired bed Everything around me is red For their minds bleed much in ponder Over foolish things, they wonder The hassle of travelling But my stomach is quarreling I need to...Read the rest...
Categories: courage,
Form: Rhyme
The Sanctuary In the Sky
I look meticulously at the lines and know that something lies behind the deep; I could not tell form where but something bigger than my mind was pulling me there. There was a peculiar light...Read the rest...
Categories: courage, adventure, africa, books, change,
Form: Narrative

Specific Types of Courage Poems

Definition | What is Courage in Poetry?


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