Coward Poems

Guilty by Omission

Hang your head in shame:
kept quiet in the face of injustice
~ the lingering taste of cowardice


Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 1st place 2025

You Made Me Dauntless

You made me Dauntless


Part of me is half full and empty
Like a right-handed person trying to be lefty
Trying to scribble down the chaotic memory
Of the hurt I got from ignoring me totally
 
I try to break my own rules and standards
‘Cause I thought you’re the ace in a card
I dive too deep into the false hope

Howard The Coward Mallard

Mallard,
the coward 
Was all dressed 
and showered 
And Howard 
was his name
So, you see! 

That,
 
Howard,
the coward 
When all dressed 
and showered 
Was still just 
a mallard 
To me!

Not A Coward

He took the coward’s way out
Over and over they flout.
Only those who tried to end
Can comprehend the blend.
For truly committing to no return
Is rooted in constant yearn.
Trying to cross the other side
Requires the loss of pride.
The irony of being a suicide
Is the longing to survive.

The burning desire to be loved.
Hope simply caught in rope.

The Brave Coward Inside

Insecure…
Need a cure…
Need to endure
I want to be pure
I’m just so unsure
Inside, I must endure
My words, at times, injure
My sins are so impure
Mercy makes us feel sure
Lured in by the insecurities and pride in the mirror
Humility needs to be my inner-tour
All my past in a blur…

Cowardly bravery is my haunting nightmare…
Scared out of wits up

Blood On Your Hands

Killing women and children
Is absolutely unacceptable
Executing sick and old men
Is obviously low and despicable.

You can make countless speeches
You can invent endless excuses
Slaughtering so many is genocidal
Hurting so many can never be justifiable.

The world is now less peaceful and civilized
A cease fire is long overdue and warranted
This is barbaric; too many leaders are demented.

When will decency

Cowards

You’re a coward to look forward
Its much safer to look back
I’m a coward too, cause onward
My world looks a bit too black
Like a mid December evening
Waits behind my entrance door
I don’t know what to believe in 
You're not there anymore

Coward

Coward




Talk about people behind their backs
Instead of in front of their faces
Spend all your time in a lonely place
Searching for hiding places
Too scared to stand up for yourself
Too proud to depend on others
Too bold to stand beside other people
Too independent to even claim your own brothers
Smile in their face, but laugh behind their backs
Is the

The Real Coward

Garad is big nose coward and big mouth behind walls on rocking chair

Hush

Son, you’ll rise before the sun breaks its chains
And work your father’s yard ‘til fingers strain!
You will bow and drop your knee to the ground
And soften your roar when grown folk around.

Boy, never dare meet my eye when you speak,
Be brave out there but in here, you be weak! 
You must break yourself to my

Have a Word With Yourself Coward

Sit yourself down

And have a good long hard

Word with yourself

You yellow bellied coward

So involved with yourself

You are not the only person

Who has problems

Far greater than you

The only difference is

Unlike you they don't

Wollow in their own self pity

They take it on the chin 

Roll with the punches

And carry on regardless 

Without the theatrical rigmarole

And so should

Spineless Wimp

I lie bedraggled, disheveled,
scrunched up and crinkled,
in a pile,
like ratty raggedy 
rag doll,
besmirched, 
defiled and exiled,
for being a
spineless, 
limp 
wimp.

Coward Huitain

Pleasing me is easy to do;
A trip your rambunctious nature,
I’m happy just being near you;
Speaking with that brand of candor 
I get a buzz off of what’s true;
So why do you make it so hard?
Flying straight into such rapture,
caress me don’t be a coward.

Dick the Coward

I’ve written about “Dick The Bully”
“Dick The Ignorant” also
This poem is about “Dick The Coward”
Who is one of the lowest of low

“Dick The Coward” you are gutless
You follow and persecute in a pack
You ride on the coat tails of other bullies
Then cowardly and viciously attack

Afraid to voice your vile comments
Unless the other Dicks are there
You

I'M a Coward

I'm a coward
Not for running from a fight
Or failing to do what's right
But I'm a coward

I'm a wuss
Not for getting upset
Or for not placing a bet
But I'm a wuss

I'm fearful
Not of demons or werewolves so hairy
Not of vampires or other creatures so scary
But I'm fearful

I'm scared
Not of drowning or flying
Not of freezing or dying
But I'm

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