Writing 201: Poetry Challenge

Dear Reader

Day 6 of this challenge and a ballad poem is todays theme. Increasingly tough to keep up with some of these ideas it is making me think. Like many others I am sure they are in the same boat, how to write in a style never attempted. Again, I suspect this is not my best and I will more than likely want to rewrite it at some point.

Some poems have been better or easier to rewrite, this one will take time.

Along with the theme is a word – Hero. So my hero is … well I think it becomes clear.

Enjoy

 

Hero

The stage is set for him to arrive
Surrounded by calm authority.
Strobing lights and piecing sirens
Crashes into the scene.

The fog of fear quickly dispelled
His commands attention.
People see the light of hope
Uplifting is his intention.

Orders barked without bite
Followed without question.
Standing firm to face all
Chaos dutifully challenged.

Fight rages inflaming all
Hope seems lost.
Standing proud battling fire with fire
Struggling to beat the odds

Pushing into the heart of chaos
Cries heard that must be saved.
Engulfed by elements desires to take
His life to save others.

Where there’s no hope he is hope
A towering hulk appears
He has won, defeating fire and fear
An unsung hero, without a mask.
by Mark O’Donnell