Short Cowardice Poems

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


Mind's Choir

Inviting voices
Of your mind's opposing choirs,
Which ranks will you join,
Of cowardice and despair
Or courage and fulfillment
Form: Tanka


Tanka Lite

The Military 

A soldier lost his rifle 
A general lost a war 
Soldier shot
Cowardice they said 
The General was promoted 
Got an extra star.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Heroism and Cowardice

Heroes and cowards share one thing in common.
Both Are Very Afraid.
Neither wants to do what needs to be done,
but the hero does it anyway.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member 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
Form: Other

Woke goes broke

A man got shunned from a haven
The host made rules that were craven.
Peers banned his prize joke
for fear of the woke
Proud noses were pecked by his raven.
Form: Limerick


Strong Winds

“Cowardice often hides behind 
   intelligence

“Until the strong winds of conviction 
   —blow it away.”

(Quote From My New Novel: Sold Out, February, 2020)

Cowardice

Even 
in fleeting 
moments 
of cowardice,

may you 
still strive 
to be bold 
and prevail,

yet, remain 
kind to those 
who struggle,
stumble and fail!
Form: Didactic

Premium Member Spirits of Freedom Fighters

I saw 
the spirits of 
the freedom fighters
rising from ashes
and addressing
the cowardice
countrymen:
Is this 
for this
we had fought for 
your freedom?

Premium Member Balance

There is no bravery without fear.
Control is the key for balancing that pair.
Without balance bravery evolves into recklessness,
and fear can develop into total cowardice.
Form: Rhyme

After Explaining the Draft To My Four-Year Old

In our nation’s final, fatal stages
Before our country falls
From cowardice within,
Our daughters die for soldier’s wages.
And when the bugle calls
Out taps…it sounds our sin.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
war
Form: Verse

Terrorism

Terrorism,I venerate your abject cowardice
Preying on amiable,zealous souls' innocence
Your farfetched,timorous scheme to hide
Among aborigines and by pugnacious animosity abide.
Form: Epigram

Government Of My People

Terrorism
Non existence
Of bravery.

Public bomb treat
A bravado
Of cowardice.

Showing of force
Of power trip
In weak leader.

Democracy
Working today
In tyranny.
Form: Than-Bauk

Freedom Awaits

Losers dwell
in misery’s past
Winners reach
for tomorrow recast
Cowardice hides
from every new dawn
Where freedom awaits
— the brave and the strong

(Dreamsleep: November, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Fortitude and Cowardice

Accepting Godsend afflictions with resignation is fortitude 

But

Tolerating Man-made suffering without a fight is cowardice! 







©  Demetrios Trifiatis
       14 May 2021
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Cowardice and Heroism

Cowardice and Heroism,
both share one thing in common.
The coward and the hero are both very much afraid.
Neither wants to do what needs to be done,
but the hero just happens to do it anyway.
Form: Rhyme

Bashful

anonymous card passionate cowardice words a valentine wish asking for a date benevolent gallantry one kiss too many tensed on one knee proposal of love will you marry me please?
Form: Haiku

I Love You Love We Love

Who doesn't love love,
          doesn't deserve to be loved...
          And cowardice is a subject
          of men, not of lovers...
          lovers dare adventures
           cowards only suffer and that's it...!
Form: Epigram

Playing the Victom

I dont play games
Especially no blame games
Blame games are what victoms play
To save face
Pure cowardice
Straight trash waste managent
Fugazi fake counterfit
If i made myself 
Any more clear
You would be convinced
I wasn't here
© John Conde  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Grandpop's Words

may you, in cowardice,
    be bold and prevail,
         yet kind to those who
              struggle, stumble and fail;

may you be honed 
    by occasional defeat,
         yet, in triumph, shunning
              urges of conceit!
Form: Didactic

Premium Member The Rest Unknown

A coach? 
A role model? 
A hero?
Maybe 
to somebody.
Perhaps 
you made up 
for your cowardice
somewhere else 
with someone else.
A father?
I wouldn't know.
Maybe to 
another child.
To me 
an abandoner,
the rest unknown.

5-22-2021

Premium Member Of Courage and Cowardice

courage
                    valiant, heroic, 
      summoning, praising, mustering
determination, fortitude, timidity, coward
       hiding, reproaching, displaying
                 disgraceful, pitiful
                       cowardice


Date created: 05/24/2021
Form: Diamante

Running From The Dark

Has your life
become an anthem
to those things
that you’ve fled
Did denial
and avoidance
leave you once
in good stead
Can you swear
to the heavens
you had
no other choice
Cowardice
and trepidation
the breath
—in your voice

(The New Room: November, 2023)
Form: Rhyme

The Enabler

I abhor…
bigotry,
dishonesty,
hate and
disloyalty,
bias
and jealousy,
misogyny
and tyranny

But more than anything
I hate weakness in all its forms,
cowardice being the most destructive,
 which allows all of the things I abhor…
to exist

(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)

Premium Member Blinders

See no truth,
Hear no truth,
Speak no truth.
Follow the leader.
Don’t look to either side
Or you might see
In the mirror
Of your own making
Your cowardice,
distortions, self-absorption,
lies, and poor judgment.
Keep the blinders on.
Follow the leader
over the cliff.

Wonderful Collapse

former evil in powerful doses
crumbling to a horrid nightmare
of fears enlimited, cowardice,
evil is returning to its far
corners of onyx imperfection
though it may take time
they are falling back
the the nights onyx corners
from the shadows comes
the light of Gods light.

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