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Grit Poems - Poems about Grit

Grit Poems - Examples of all types of poems about grit 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 grit.
Premium Member Considering my position
...Somehow, all this grit makes me breathe out a wall of glass A prison forming, where I've too much to say but am unable to be heard Too tightly encased to generate the power needed to break out Arm......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, angst,
Form: Free verse



Silent reverie
...I spotted a star not in a stary night or even a night O What a sight It Brings sparks to my heart She is as beautiful as "start night " Art Setting fire to my every part from that little ......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, conflict, courage, crush, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Pearl
...An oyster felt an uncomfortable itch Caused by a stinging sand grain. Ten fathoms deep, he slowly made - a pearl, So that he was free from pain. A tenacious Japanese ama, dove, This merma......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, beauty, desire, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Still Life with Pearls Lichtenstein
...you can see anything you want to in it's hazy lustre that is the real gift all irritants made good it is so valu......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Spring Sonnet
... Spring Sonnet The microscopic lifeforms in my soil Sense the rising in degrees Celsius. Old Summer’s red wiggler worms now uncoil, While hungry birds look down most odious. Most showers ......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, earth, food, garden, halloween,
Form: Sonnet



Modern Version Psalm 23
... My dishwasher is mine; It serves me well. It makes glassware beam high with prisms of delight: forks sing praises minus grit between their prongs. It combats the scorche......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, appreciation, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cocoon
... "Cocoon" They say... a New World traces over the old, leaving the unaware, erased, far behind the old unaware, left far behind, crawls the walls in its web of ......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When Silence Speaks
...a salted tongue the truth unsung grit in teeth silence speaks nothing aired breath, not shared aches inside can't abide throa......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
SILENT STRUGGLE
...Do i talk? Do i sit? fuel adding to the pit long ago by your hand lit played my part I can admit fighting forward bare the grit love be why i cease to quit ......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Travelled Man
...I'll stop and sit by the riverside with my back turned to the sun, And recall all the places I've seen since my travelling days begun. I will record the best memories for when my ......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, adventure, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 1 2 3 go
...why would you why would you not no daisies involved just driving self crazy I don't know I don't know like the ticking of the clock nothing known or not emptying of sand from hand slipping t......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Anzac
... ANZAC Few among them knew the name Gallipolli no crystal ball foretold the hell it spawned but in the misty dawn of 25-04-15 the legend of the ANZACs would be born. standing tall......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, courage, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Barbarossa I
...When giants hide their heads beneath the sand, the body lies unshielded from the Sun. ‘Tis but a hedge to seemingly withstand the winds of war that nothing will out run. ‘Tis opportune for those ......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Barbarossa III
...A new command would counter their attack to stay the storm that harkens at your door. ‘Twould be a feat that stunned the iron pack for nothing dared defy the wolves before. And though his pack c......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
SUCCESS AWAITS
... Journey ahead with passion and fire, Believe in yourself, for greatness you possess, Courageous in spirit, a leader in your stride Aim high, let your dreams inspire, Overcome obstacles, Rise ......Read the rest...
Categories: grit, emotions, inspiration, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme

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