Short Adversity Poems

Short Adversity Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Adversity by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Adversity by length and keyword.


Song of Beauty

A lotus in mire,
A rose amid thorns,
A cactus in desert,
A creation in derision,
A song of beauty
Born in adversity!!
Form:


Premium Member Tenacity and Conviction

harsh adversity
brings forth determination
tulips in the snow
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Breath of Life

the strongest of souls
cast from their adversity
breathe the breath of life

Edward J. Ebbs - February 4, 2018 (edited 09/08/18)
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Never Give Up

Never Give Up Monoku by: Miracle Man 2/6/2022 adversity in life can be either our barricade or our bridge.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Adversity Vs Death

Sting of bee,
shakes you up,
Bite of snake,
makes you dead,
that's difference,
when you have adversity vis a vis death in reference.


Abolish Adversity

J-ust 
O-bliterate 
A-ll 
N-egative 
N-otions 
A-round 

Topic: Birthday of Joanna P. Rivera (March 29) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Best Moves


May my adversity
be enameled with civility
May my diversity
be filled with commonality
May my best move
always be 'Common Sense'

Premium Member Adversity 9-11

          ~  clear September day -

        a country brought to its knees ...

           where it found its strength  ~





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Form: Senryu

No Comment

Growth from adversity
Based on who's reality
Just once would it pass by
Worn from life trial am I
Provide just a little peace
God grant sweet release
Form:

Premium Member Enjoyment of Life

Enjoyment of life does not come because of the lack of adversity but because of its presence







(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
        26 August 2016
Form: Monoku

Joy

When adversity rages its trials for me, 
Though fire and suffering it brings, 
My eyes will I fix on the joy of His Love 
As the Spirit of God in me sings.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Triumph Over Adversity

No
Succumb
To adverse 
Events that teach
To be more wise and selective in life











Example For Victim Or Victor Contest
September 10, 2016
Form: Tetractys

Islamic Morality

Those who give charity,
both in prosperity and in adversity,
Those who control their rage,
and those who are forgiving towards mankind.
Note.This is Islamic Morality!
© Mortal Man  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Mother is her Name

Her vessel is empty, yet she is oxygen
Mother, is her name.
She sits in contemplation of
Tomorrow's provision
And you will never know when
Her weary soul is dying.

Premium Member - Adversity In Lifes Journey -

If adversity don`t break you
                        Adversity will make you stronger in facing life






11.03.2012
A-L Andresen :)
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
Form: Verse

Encrypt

a wheel within a wheel i see, return retrace eternity, the faces in the mist agree, that i should yet insist, logic doth encrypt, a life of adversity Don Johnson
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Adversity

Your story is not just your tattoos or the scars on your skin your story is from deep in your heart made from battles fought within. Kale Brereton Jan 13/19

Butterfly and Me

Butterfly lands free anywhere
 there, here or over there
 wherever she wants...
She is enchanted !
She flies free, 
she possesses wings,
profits  the wind
i do not.. !
what adversity !

Premium Member Carousel

   carousel whirls round and round 
       horses climbing up and down

    few riders smiling 
       most, teardrops crying

    calliope’s adversity
       three minutes an eternity
Form: Couplet

Silent Headway

I am calmly motivated
through adversity ,
with a holistic salvation
we are never undeserving ;
always be the headway
from afterworld .


(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • July 27–August 2, 2026)

Premium Member Gladiola


(G)racefully tall
(L)uring blooms
(A)ttractive colors
(D)ance in the breeze
(I)nspiring growth
(O)vercoming adversity
(L)avishing flower
(A)n abundance of beauty


Heidi Sands

8/23/25
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Adversity Begone a Haibun

Words, words, how do you feel?My emotions cascade in a stream.The crisis confronts me head on.Enough is enough, let chance,let faith set sail.

being,not living
begone ,sense of otherness-
in His  hands, I am
Form: Haibun

Truth Renamed

We meet adversity,
  friend or foe

One to run from,
  the other to know

Their dress identical,
  intention the same

Accepted—Rejected,
  the truth is renamed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Identity

In the urgency of fear,
I transform,
in adversity, I realize who I am,
Normally, I don't even recognise myself...
So poetry is for me
nourishment and encouragement...
 i discover it because so
is the living... !

Premium Member Magnetic momento

I am
not motivated

adversity is
torn from
headway
unaware

context
can be
needlessly
preemptive

could
afterworld memento
calmly
vanquish
through
salvation


(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • July 27–August 2, 2026)

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