Short Peril Poems

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


Premium Member Proceed at Your Own Peril

     a dangerous dive into pools of the past

        praying to hit bottom… 

                       … then to shoot up at last
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Humanity In Peril

Moral compass lost

Spirituality gone

Faith's lighthouse in need!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      11 March 2019

5-7-5
Form: Senryu

Peril In the Wood

Red fire blazing in the wood;
just charred stumps where trees once stood.
The denizens must flee and run
because the deadly flames have won.
Form: Rhyme

Each Day Life Is In Peril

E-ach day life is in peril, 
D-angerous things abound, 
E-veryone seeks protection, 
N-o safe shelter is found.







Topic: Birthday of Eden Donquillo (March 19) 
Form: Acrostic Quatrain
Form: Quatrain

Been free at the peril of a great cost

Living a life most people wouldn't want... 
Unlike a flashy one desired to flaunt;
Luxuries for all it contain-
Like one never been through pain. 
How been safe till time others can't dare haunt!
Form: Limerick


In Peril Sing Christmas Carol

In Peril Sing Christmas Carol

Here is what to when you are in peril;
Sing to yourself a nice Christmas Carol;
You will be relieved,
Then Jesus received,
And now no longer will be over a barrel.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Savage Peril: Ode To Our Earth

Torn from our roots
The chaos ensues.

Broken from family, 
The surface unravels.

From this revealed,
A new life emerges.

See the next forms
To sustain a new life.

Make art from chaos.
This is your life.

At Peace, At Peril

At peace, its calm
Like a cool summer day
Subsides the stereotype
At peril, a fire bomb
Don’t want to stay
With photos of a prototype
Kill those who kill me
And stop the hand of time.
Why must you kill,
What you hate.
© Tara Shaw  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member The Peril

how forcefully must nature state its case for Man to understand the peril he is in?







© Demetrios Trifiatis
    07 January 2018

*Temperature has dropped at an all-time record of -35 Celsius in Berkshire Hills  Massachusetts,  USA.

Party In Peril

When we cut trees
They cry
When we drain swamps
They mourn
When we burn grass
They weep
When we eat cakes
They shade tears
But they leave a message behind
“Humanity we are gone
Continue to live, lust and party
In the shadow of your own peril”
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Humanity In Peril

How thunderous nature's howling must be for humans to realise they are in peril?*







© Demetrios Trifiatis
    19 September 2018

* Super Typhoon Mangkhut, the strogest storm of the year, unlished gusts up
to 200 mph while hurricane Florence brought 40 inches of rain. CNN

Patchwork peril

The past rises
grey and pink
amid rasping gravel
barnacled to chasms
sunken and sodden
clawing at hasty feet 
that skate manically 
and hurl bodies cruciform 
onto mocking concrete.
The marred morn pauses
for a nanosecond 
to ponder the maelstrom
of mangled flesh 
and sirens.

Premium Member In Peril

.                                              Earth
                                               Fragile
                                             In Danger
                                           Stop Pollution
                                                Now





Sorry, I cant get the first line to center..
Form: Lanterne

Premium Member - Haiku X 148 - the Peril of False Spring -

a single small bud

                                  don't say spring is in the air -

                                  snowdrops drowned in snow









15/03/2019
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
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Writing Challenge 2 - Haiku- Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dear Heart
howmanysyllables.com: 5-7-5

2nd place in the contes
Form: Haiku

Prophecy's Peril

Armageddon approaches as
Bombastic
Charismatic characters'
Daring-do
Enlarges evil's
Fissure
Grown too
Huge horror of
Islamic
Jewish and Christian
Knockout
Linking
Menacing multiple
Nukes
Onto an ancient
Prophecy as
Quieter heads
Reasonably
Seeking solutions are
Turned 
Upon by
Vituperate voices
Wailing war who wait
Xpectantly for
Young
Zealots to enflame the world.
© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.

Yellow Peril

Existential fear, 
erected by the faceless horde;  
old yellow!
seismic,
voodoo wave,
dominating weak;
Our Territory and tenure.
Yellow Peril, in all his glory

The depths of disparity, 
neither somber or pallid;
chromaticity;
Old yellow!
Impending catastrophe;
A Permafrost wrap
Brazen
Yellow Peril, In all his glory

Hopeful Jubilation,
Bigotry 
segregation
Blind, 
Sad,
Immortal,
Yellow peril
Form:

The Peril of Speculating On Relationships

The Peril of Speculating on Relationships

By Elton Camp

What people are to each other don’t try to guess
A mistake can get you into a most terrible mess

“And this must be your father” isn’t smart
The young woman’s husband is that old fart

“Your grandchild’s cute” to an unknown man
Who is holding onto his own daughter’s hand

“Who is this with you” is a much better bet
Than the angry response you else might get
© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Beryl the Peril

My auntie her first name is Beryl Put other road users in peril She mounted the sidewalk The pedestrians squawk and report her to Sherriff Merrill The Sherriff puts her under arrest as Beryl says she tried her best But before Beryl kills With her dire driving skills He insisted she retakes her test The examiner discovered that Aunt Beryl is as blind as a bat So it made perfect sense To decline her licence I’m as pleased as a Cheshire cat! 08/10/21
Form: Limerick

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