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Duty Poems - Poems about Duty

Duty Poems - Examples of all types of poems about duty 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 duty.
In Their Honor
...On this day, I think of those who gave it all for a cause, answered the call to duty and service. I often wonder, what compels one to make such a profound sacrifice, how to quantify such brave......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, appreciation, memorial day, remembrance
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mount Moriah
...First person narrative from the perspective of a mountain… Isaiah 55:12 “ For ye shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace: the mountains and hills shall break forth before you into singin......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, bible, christian, creation, faith,
Form: Narrative
Yashodhara - Buddha
...A shadow dims Yashodhara's vibrant gaze, "My love," she murmurs, "lost in wisdom's maze. A prince you were, with riches at your hand, Yet craved a truth beyond this earthly land.” "A deeper ......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, confidence, heartbroken, husband, i
Form: Free verse
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
...Silence reigns supreme in my reich No don (except me) doth trumpet within the aborted barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm, I annexed courtesy manifest destiny, which peoples now in......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
War
... Global tensions now starting to increase we have been warned many times before Every brother sister nephew and niece future generations will be paying for Agai......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, write,
Form: Rhyme



this isn't me
...What am I doing? This Isn't me. I'm watching myself Commit the unthinkable in The name of duty and I hate it. Everyone is heralding me A hero When I only feel like the villain Who actual......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, corruption, political, repetition, violence,
Form: Free verse
SHE IS A LEADER
...Steady as a rock, firm faith she carries The embodiment of strength, girl power! She reads out her mind like a political novel Confidence is her hidden name and she lives it For she believes it. ......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, leadership, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heroic Champion
... Written: May 14, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Embrace light within, never trail your cloak. Embrace thrill, but stay safe. Embrace strength with grace......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Noisy Korea Now My Home
... When I first came To South Korea in 1979 To do my Peace Corps duty In a rural country town, I thought that the old name Of Korea “the land of the morning calm” Was absurd. Korea was ......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, appreciation, emotions, travel,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Palindrome Limerick
...Miss, I am totally on the level Civic duty to call out the devil My bad deed radar is strong Also a good eye for wrong Madam, in misfortune I don't revel......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, words,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Mystic Under the Bodhi Tree
...A most beautiful day The Son of Suns, shining brightly on us all Not hot yet, but bright. A million butterfly’s swarm Lighting on and around Myriads of flowers surrounding. See them in such......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, adventure, dream, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member BEAUTIFUL HIGH-
...I'll sing by The Horizon as the precloud roboast community temperature in winds drift high As we waving bye Find and get my environmental duty To search to look today until the Heaven......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Portal - part 1
... Today, this black oak forest will become my grave. A crow caws in the distance, but I swear it is calling my name. I have never believed in omens or curses but perhaps there are such hateful th......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, fantasy, suicide,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member My Mistress, the Moon
... My Mistress, the Moon From mine chamber, breathless and perspiring upon the bed, I spy you there, out my window, looming overhead. Your gaze, a silent arbiter in the night, I cloak......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, beautiful, dark, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Sad Time and an Awful War
...I was from a poor rural county in Iowa The kind that drafts young men during wars Back in the late sixties many of our men went to Viet Nam Some did not return, others returned damaged Patriots......Read the rest...
Categories: duty, war,
Form: Prose Poetry

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