Short Defense Poems

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


Wander Javier

Wander Javier
‘s wanderful to note he has no heir
‘s awful nice
you don’t have to put up with this level of defense twice.
Form: Clerihew


Defensione Vitae

The only defense against fate
  is words

The only answer to death
  —is life

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2018)

Covert Assignment

Spy game continues
Disguise deceit cheat
Expose leak tweet
Do did done
Under the sheet.
Note. Everyone deserves defense.
Form: Rhyme

WAY out dreaming



               Living life dreaming
         is not an escape or a defense,
            it's finding a real way out...

Premium Member Exhibit 'A' for the Defense

  
     Pressed together like worms in a tackle box ~
 
       the sardines realized they had never counted their blessings


Premium Member The Pen Versus the Sword

The incorrect usage of tense
And phrases of total nonsense
Wipe out brain status
With more apparatus
Than the Department of Defense
Form: Limerick

In Defense...

Now that we have found it

Avoid the crowded sound bit's

That only try to pound rift's

Jealous wedge to lifelong love quest

Premium Member Defense Shows Contempt

confronted by lions 
                 within a whisker of death 
              laughing through ~ the fence 


By
David Kavanagh
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Tidal Waves

Tidal Waves

Here's What The
Beach Also 
Tells Me:

"There Is No
Defense For Man
Against Sand."

-Gray Squirrel

11-17-2024

The Terrorists

Defense is a must –
It’s a lesson from the wise,
A lesson from past!

Those who fight are terrorists –
All terrorists are not bad!
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Acts of Kindness

Each act of kindness we perform to our defense will come on judgement day! 






(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
      11 October 2016
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Cancel Culture

Cancel Culture Haiku: by Tom 12/29/2020 The Cancel Culture was born to harm another, and there's no defense.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member SELF DEFENSE

SELF DEFENSE                                       s


Defend who you are,
Not who they want you to be;
Live the you, you are:-
Form: Senryu

The Wolf Howls To the Moon

I can feel the wolf as it howls to the moon
It looks like a good luck sign
But, the wolf will not stop howling because it is his defense

Premium Member Duck and Cover

beware atomic attack!
1950s civil defense
duck and cover drills
Bert the turtle 
showed us the way

flash of light - duck and cover!
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Straightforwardness

Why should I care if sharing my truth causes offense?
In a world of shadow, is it not the one worthwhile defense?



For the Couplets Contest.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Thanks

First they come for the Jew
     Thanks to the IDF
  Now they won't come for you


  _______________________
  IDF = Israel Defense Forces
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member CLUCK U

when uttering a fowl cluck
was told I was pushin' my luck
but as my defense-a
the chicks weren't from mensa
and bought my routine as a duck
Form: Limerick

Self-Defense

"Unlawful attacked
                               Provoked him to kill and rush
                                           Imprisonment reigned".
Form: Haiku

Empty Promises

Empty promises,
                      
                     Tell me what I want to hear

But, i'm on defense!!!!


.......:JP)..07/19/2009
Form: Senryu

Self-defense

"Self-defense applies
when you truly own the land
not when you steal it"

I love above lines
make a lot of sense to me
read it again please
Form: Haibun

Salt Rings and Seaweed

Tangled seaweed shore
sharp in salt and sweet decay
Crab claws still clenched shut
in defense of losing prey
Sun, to bleach, is on it's way...
Form: Tanka

Selfish Yes Lie

SELFISH ??

How do you Plead ??

GUILTY !!

As Charged your Honor 

In my Defense 

I don't Lie 100% of the Time

To Tell you the Truth

Premium Member Stage Struck

In-front-of-class speech, a mock defense for debate. I was too nervous. My throat was unbuttered toast, too dry to utter a word.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member A Wish

May we be blessed live in a world:
where we build bridges instead of walls
where kindness needs no defense
and where love really does conquer all…
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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