Short Perdition Poems

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


Beyond Perdition

From the Devil’s stable,
I picked the fastest stallion

And rode beyond perdition
—through eternity’s flames

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)


Premium Member January Perceptions

immoral north winds 
locking jaws on shriveled souls-
sun starved perdition 

becharmed arctic breeze
winter’s kiss exalting hearts-
moon drenched nirvana
© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Hades Revisited

Having less
suffering more
Doors were slamming
wolf at the door

Arriving first
finishing last
Spiraling downward
— perdition recast  

(The New Room: February, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

Mt Zero-Sum

The Mountain 
looms
and calls your name
To glory
or 
perdition

Its summit
has a thousand
fathers
Whose abyss
awaits
— the orphan

(Beartooth Pass: August, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

'All Damn Thee Who Enter Here'

KNOCK – KNOCK
evil resounds
the devil’s doorknob
to Hades impounds

POUND - POUND
the hasp in its dock
whose key to perdition
— in hand to unlock

(Dreamsleep: September, 2025)
Form: Rhyme


Into the Fire

The bridge to Satan  
is paved with envy  
Voices collapsing
in currents below
Its height entices 
the moment fleeting
Perdition waiting
—with gate aglow 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
Form: Rhyme

Unmarked Graves

Arresting the future
 as well as the past
Time the great jailor  
its prison precast   

A graveyard of victims
in temporal loss
Destiny preying
—perdition the cost

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Days Fly By

   The days fly by
     one and the same
   too busy to pause
     to earn their own name

   Unearthly winds
     sweep moments away 
   into dustbins of perdition
     painted colorless gray
Form: Rhyme

Band Of Brothers

Band of blood brothers bound for a mission 
To save the fair queen from great perdition 
Matters not if black or white 
They must fight for what is right 
Or their great king will hold them for treason
Form: Limerick

Until Heaven

An anonymous
shadow
stalks
and it preys
Covering
my exit
in darkness
I stay

Its shroud
of perdition
at home
in my fear
Embedded
till Heaven’s
redemption
— to clear

(1st Book Of Prayers: October, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

Damnation Refound

A Mississippi back road,
burns in my mind

Its memory twice buried,
resurfaces, reminds

That Mississippi back road,
you once led me down

Perdition, destruction
—damnation refound

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Perdition

PERDITION

Guilt
Burns hot
In the soul
For all one’s sins
Known as perdition
As a permanent state
That can and will still persist
Of punishment and damnation
And there is no known recovery
So unfair, after one has repented
sin
Form: Etheree

Premium Member JUST FOR FUN no 5 a wmpc

a
bicoloured
cantata
demo
entering
favourably
hieratical
into
jubilant
mating
norwegian
of
perdition
rearing
setter
through
unselfish
vulgarisation
with
you


(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • July 6–12, 2026)

Damnation Refound

A Mississippi back road
  burns in my mind

Its memory twice buried,
  resurfaces, reminds

That Mississippi back road,
  you once led me down

Perdition, destruction,
 —damnation refound

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Angel Muse

Hidden from perdition
disguising me again
Final thorn of life’s florescence 
trapped within her pen

Darker than the madness
eternity cajoles   
The pathway to forbidden fruit
— her masquerade unfolds

(The New Room: June, 2024)
Form: Rhyme

Tracks It Leaves

Stalking every dream
calling me from sleep
A Yeti of the frozen night
I drove the pitons deep

Climbing over hope
belaying every wish
The tracks it leaves — perdition bound
  to wander in the mist

(Haverford Pennsylvania: May, 2024)
Form: Rhyme

Flames of Perdition

Flames of perdition
Painting passion’s fire
Moaning moonlight
Squeezing sensuous desire
Lovers’ lips 
Speaking sun glazed sin
Tasting temptation
Beaded on sultry skin
Sweaty sighs
Restless for relief
Smearing seduction
On eyes of disbelief
Form: Quatrain

Scorched and Burned

Seventeen children
on a highway to hell

Thumbs out—noses down,
perdition rings their bell

Seventeen children,
their backs now fully turned

The piper calls them blindly
—their futures scorched and burned

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

What a Day Make

30 Days' in perdition
        Is worth
Five minutes' with
        The Lord
           -Fore-
Irrelevance and eternity
          Is 5 Times'
   More likely to be
              -A-
       End Result
   When you council
         Is with the
             Lord

GF

Premium Member Highway

Horizon brings two paths
Heaven takes to eden
Hell brings the perdition
Hearing an inner voice 
Haunting the mind and soul
Holding the floating thoughts
Healing hopeless spirit








For Pleiades H Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
2-18-2017
Fifth Place
Form: Verse

Excuses Set Sail

The wickedness
of man
trumps the goodness
of God

What’s harder for
a child
to see their mother dead
or their father sob

The greater number
of a man’s errors
come disguised
as perfection

As excuses
sets sail
on the sea
— of perdition

(Dreamsleep: January, 2026)
Form: Rhyme

No Saving Grace

Perdition is a lonely road
Travels on and on
No haven found
Hiding in the fogs of time

Purgatories gain
Has found the hearts loss
Obliterating glorious possibilities
In finding everlasting nirvana

Timeless hopes 
Engulfing a life in solitude
Lost in worthless abandonment
A savior yet to be found

Perdition Assured

You try to mask your given voice
in what’s perverse and then profane

But truth speaks only for itself,
your costume tattered—seamstress blamed

This great parade, a grand charade,
your song a flattened chord

Its final line to seal your fate
—perdition now assured

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Perdition Now Assured

You try to mask your given voice
  in what’s perverse and then profane

But truth speaks only for itself,
 your costume tattered—seamstress blamed

This great parade, a grand charade,
  your song a flattened chord 

Its final line to seal your fate,
 —perdition now assured

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Lucifer and Hooch

LUCIFER'S gullet was as parched as hell!

   He said, "Lord, some cold HOOCH, would do me well!"

      Lord said, "In thy condition,

         Smoldering in perdition,

            Not a snowball's chance in the place ye dwell!"

Entry for Catie Lindsey's  "L&H Limericks" Contest 

Took First Place in the contest.
Form: Limerick

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