Poetry.com »

Search results for: defiant

Yee yee! We've found 159 poems matching defiant.

Filter by gender:

Sort:PopularA - Z

Poems:

Never Came Home Nathaniel Hackey	To fight evil And everyone who dares to be defiant For from boys to men Their mothers cry Proud of what has grown What he has formed in...	Rate it (5.00 / 7 votes)
Shadows Within the Fluorescent Light Olivia Ritota	, whispers of rebellion stir within me, fueling a defiant courage that dances hand in hand with...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
"Papillon, Hot Butterfly" Kenneth Carson	Not ashamed of the two voices that cried out defiant into the night, in our latest expression of that love, as it rolled over us, melding our...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
CARCASS FOR LORD Michael Maina Njoroge	Again past a carcass defiant of furious climate With stench gaping at the sojourners Of a centenarian The captain...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Iowa City: Early April Robert Hass	from the garden, looked at me with a stilled defiant terror, like a thing with no choices, And, neck bobbing in that fragile-seeming,...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Remain Observant Lawrence S. Pertillar	No need to be combative or...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Saša Milivojev - THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS Saša Milivojev	Confined prisoners the defiant The suffering paying their...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Steps Brady Bowen	spirit arrives in effigy; defiant her black wings brush my face and I smile Inside me it is...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Epic of Gilgamesh: The fall from the Light Keith Lankford	Yet banished to hell He did as he so choose Defiant in death As in his life His spirit was trapped Deep eternal night Crying to the gods ...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Wicked Oppression Richard Newton Sherrer	He will be guarding forever; The defiant He will condemn, By their own sword He will...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
This time of the year Robert loughran	I called to see my green lady, she answered in defiant...	Rate it (4.67 / 3 votes)
Shane (A Childhood Memory) Royston	Rooted in the ground defiant it stood stronger than steel though it was...	Rate it (3.50 / 2 votes)
Another Forgetful Night TommyD	Survived one more example , my defiant youth...	Rate it (2.00 / 2 votes)
A Child's Garden Corinna R Evrard	Some are so beautiful their wildness I keep Defiant expression against the compression of my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fallen Yew Francis Thompson	Against the whirl-blast and the levin, Defiant arms to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Few Smiles More Manuel Santos	hear the howling wind of yesterday smother our defiant...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Good Time Going! Oliver Wendell Holmes	And Honor turns with frown defiant, And Freedom, leaning on her spear, Laughs louder than the laughing giant "An islet is a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Little Rose Michael Rogers	Defiant from the sun light Into a beautiful rose you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Marker Abandoned Kurt Philip Behm	unspoken milepost, lost to be found Standing defiant, with time as the judge a marker abandoned —memory...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Riverina Road Thomas William Heney	To-day these plains may seem a face defiant, Turn'd to a mortal foe, yet scorning fear; As when, with heaven at war, an Earth-born...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A rose has left my garden Joseph Berolo	I dreamt of the busiest of all beehives, defiant little bees building honeycombs, catching butterflies hanging from the sky— precocious quest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Sinner Like God Earle Francis Brown	mother’s conformity My mother’s now defiant fingers work dutifully in another excrement, goat stool in her callaloo...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Thanksgiving William Ernest Henley	A dauntless and defiant...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Young Rebel Alice Guerin Crist	Are echoing back the defiant cry---- 'Michael answer for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All Movement Stopped Kurt Phiip Behm	refusing what I offer Defiant in their questions, beyond all answers in their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

We need you!

Help us build the largest human-edited poetry collection on the web!

The Web's Largest Resource for

Poets, Poems & Poetry

A Member Of The STANDS4 Network

May 2024

Poetry Contest

Join our monthly contest for an opportunity to win cash prizes and attain global acclaim for your talent.

Submissions due in...

days

hours

minutes

48 entries submitted — 102 remaining

Special Program

Earn Rewards!

Unlock exciting rewards such as a free mug and free contest pass by commenting on fellow members' poems today!

Our awesome collection of

Promoted Poems

Browse Poetry.com

#A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Quiz

Are you a poetry master?

Which female American poet, who was little-known during her lifetime, but had nearly 1800 of her poems published posthumously, rarely titled her poems?

A Sylvia Plath

B Amy Lowell

C Sara Teasdale

D Emily Dickinson