Short Hero Poems

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


Premium Member Of People and Cows

When a human soldier's slain in battle
like so many cattle,
he's called a hero in defeat
while cattle are called meat.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Hero Wars

What are all these little "Hero Wars" things that I see? Whenever they appear, they really annoy me!
Form: Couplet

Memories of the Liberation Heroes

All  antique memories of the eld fort
         where braves fought too meet glory
         angels still sing their deaths
Form: Kimo

Chronicles of a Stray Hero--Five

Confusion stains the eye
while the mothers wonder why
all their pretty children had to die
                 --stray hero
© John Allen  Create an image from this poem.

My Husband My Hero

H umble
U nusal
S exy
B ashful
A ctive
N ice
D elightful
Teresa Skyles

Entered in Crystal Wilkins"MY HERO"contest
Form: Acrostic


Premium Member Stand Out and Be Counted

blow your horn
turn your lights on
stand up and be
counted
be a champion
for you were born a
cat
and you grew 
to be a lion
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Serenity's Resurrections

Seems it's a story
Of a girl always near-death
Through every attempt,
The loveliest metaphor,
A lie even I saw through.
Form: Tanka

Hero of Myanmar

hero of Myanmar              (Haiku)

General Aung San
father of independence
hero of Myanmar.

Dr Ko Ko Thein
Salt Lake City
© Mya Thein  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Beauty's Premise

Beauty is an empty premise
  Whose truth is sorely tested
Valor's bell chimes crystal clear
  In quiet heroes is it nested
Form: Rhyme

Army Rangers Rescue Ufo Abductee

Up on  mountain top.
Just don't know how I got here.
Army Rangers  rescued me.
Says UFO kidnapped me.
Sure lucky I was let go.
Form: Tanka

Superman

It was for you who I fell
into this love that turned to hell.
but how could I resist,
I didn't know superman doesn't exist.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Mister Good Trouble - a Tribute

lion in senate
"the boy from Troy" John Lewis ~
civil rights icon
.


Date written: 09/19/2020
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Crystal Power

When colours collide,
Reality before us
Shall all but subside,
As I unleash long kept light
From crystal so warm and bright.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Smuggler sorts out the jackass

his mockery was vermin that the smuggler forcibly humming sharksucker


(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • August 24–30, 2026)

Grateful Me

A Marine once strong, now gently retired,  
A student of life, still humbly inspired,  
Kindly, he walks with purpose and grace.
Form: Bio

Live

Breathe in hope
Breathe out joy
Step into a new time
You are the first to live it
You can feel it
You believe it
You live it

Dead Ringer of a Folk Singer, Humdinger of a Gunslinger

Fairly
Squarely
Rarely
Barely
Shot from the hip fairly, squarely true
Loaded clip but, rarely, barely drew




1-19-2018
Form: Tyburn

Premium Member The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger

The silver bullet
Was placed in the gun shot fired
"Hi, Ho Silver wwway!!"

12/16/17
by James Edward Lee Sr
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Light In the Dark

Least I can be, is
Even just the faintest light
In this so dark world;
To prove one’s presence alone
Can cast away all shadows.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Lorraine Cemetery

Near Saint Avold, France,
More than ten thousand heroes
Whisper from the soil.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member The Un-Gloomy Jonathan Roumie

Just a girl online -- in Cali --
Watching the March 4 Life Rally

Starting with Jonathan Roumie
A talk hope-filled & un-gloomy!
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member my hero

My powder horn I'll be tootin
I'll git next door and start shootin
Now killins a fad
And copyin Vlad
Makes me a menace like Putin
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Self-Proclaimed Hero

There’s a self-proclaimed hero
Proudly prancing across stage
Made known his idiocy
Not seeing his fate

Russell Sivey
Form: Dodoitsu

Zero the Hero

Your suppost to be
looking after number
one
Than why do you feel
like number zero?
Zero pounds
Zero calories
Equals zero regret
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member My Hero

You once were the very hero
I needed when I as a lonely child.
You and I dreamed so wild,
Always just us two planning for tomorrow.
Form: Quatrain

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