Short Pestilence Poems

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


Widow of Zarephath

Flour and oil are running out
So are bread and butter
It’s been one pestilence of drought
Which causes wizened grass to flutter.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member In the Time of Pestilence Don'T Hug the Bug

Nobody should be hugging, if you please;
We brought it with us from when chimpanzees.
Kissy lips is a humanity trait;
But humans ain’t, for the planet, so great.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Pestilence and Disease

pestilence and disease
leprosy
black plague
covid 19
suffering and death
souls heading to heaven in mass quantities
vampires and freeway car pile-ups have done less damage

Alarming Pestilence

A-larming
P-estilence
R-abidly
I-mplements
L-ethal

M-ystery
O-f
N-asty
E-pidemic's
D-eadly
A-ttack

Topic: Birthday of April Moneda (April 30) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Universal Law

Earth 
Unexpectedly
Rocked
Sun darkened
Moon dimmed its light
Stars  
Falling 
From heaven
Famine
Pestilence
The designing of sorrow
Seems like the end
My lawyer is screwed.


Tense From Trump Pestilence

Tense from Trump Pestilence

The thought of Trump  made us tense;
He kept bugging us with his pestilence;
We must tattle;
Losing battle;
For it never received any recompense.

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

Yesterday's News

all the headlines
such a bore
yesterday's news
always the same
war, pestilence
earthquake and fire
a baby is born
someone expires
coffee cup in hand
I bring the paper in
wet, from morning rain
© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.

Happy(Ness)

Hollow engulfs every form
Asperity becomes the norm
Pestilence scars the face of humanity 
Poverty is in the soul, help us Almighty…
Yes, Happiness is but an illusion… 
(May you live in one forever )
© Dima N.  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Acrostic

Fields Found Full of Pestilence

Fields Found Full of Pestilence

Fields were found to be full of pestilence;
Crops died and only thing left is silence,
And was agreed,
Buy more seed;
But many bugs existed on every fence.

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

My Turn To Burn

It is my turn to face the flame
The darkest fire
Her wrath of penance
The woe from my pestilence
An evil army of deadly words
Damnation to finally pay
it leaves a sour taste in the mouth
I am now ended
© Bart Jonas  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

The Horsemen Ride Again

Pestilence, Poverty, War and Disease
sweep this world with valiant ease.
They ride again as once long before,
hoping that they wont  come anymore.
Humanity has its minutes counted,
As the horsemen have already departed.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Ever Allure

Ahh 
The ever allure
Ehh 
The absence
Perhaps permits
To pestilence
Ehh
In the eyes of this wild
Luxurious way
Never be blind
Permit by persistence
Perchance a permitance
In luck and happenstance
To live this life luxuriously
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Eternity's Glow

Salvation rises,
from the depths
of the unsure

Its light ablaze,
exposing fear
it must cure

Redemption hovers,
death’s pestilence
below

Casting all there reborn,
in eternity’s
glow

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

Solitude

Moonless night under a cloudy sky 
The shades of gray upon my skin 
Solitude creeps so high 
On the hues of brown and green 

The only sound is deafening silence 
Despair is sickle that rips the heart
Emptiness is like pestilence 
That rips the soul apart
Form: Rhyme

Dante's Razor

Shave the devil naked
get that tail between his legs
Leave him bald and impotent
all passion left in dregs

Fleece this vile pestilence
in the flames his fate ensnared 
Shear what he embraces most
— temptations curse laid bare

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member 2021

The New Year
     like a blank page
          appears before me
Brings hope
	that new days
		dawn in peace,
Not clouded
	by divisiveness
		by pestilence
That body, soul, and spirit
	will be in 2021
		finally, free …
2020 will be irretrievably gone
	forever!
Form: Rhyme

Pandemi

As easy as the air you breathe but can't see.
Blind to the airless suffocation.Speechless for your last breathe. Gasping to be cleansed choking to death.The lights dim then bright again. Wasn't the first time. Won't be the last.Do you feel the routine of pestilence.

Sky

Jeopardy Zone

J-eopardy zone in contagion
O-nerously carries rabidity; 
N-astiness and eeriness
A-im to spread morbidity.

L-ethality and gruesomeness
O-f the hazard have grown; 
P-lague, pestilence, , and pandemic
E-merge in jeopardy
Z-one.

Topic: Birthday of Jona A. Lopez (June 11)
Form: Acrostic

Letting Go

To live in the embraces of 
of self-love
means
letting go

of the toxicity–
of the negativity–
of the disillusion–
of the fear–
and of the doubt.

All of these at one point 
make us feel safe, 
but the truth is 
they will ensnare worth
like pestilence ensnaring breath.

Fatherhood

Fatherhood is a serious job,
There is no time to slack off or to be a slob,
It requires tenacity and due diligence,
Indifference could cause children to be
plagued with all sorts of pestilence,
Fathers have to be stalworth and strong
in order to keep their children
from doing wrong.

Eternity's Glow

Salvation rises,
  only from the depths
  of the unsure

Its light ablaze,
  exposing fear
  while pronouncing the cure

Redemption hovers,
  over death and its
  pestilence below

Casting all there reborn,
  in the warmth  
  of eternity’s glow

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)
god
Form: Rhyme

Unleavened Will

O, break your bread and pour your wine
don't fast on my behalf
you'll not find me in grain nor grapes
nor peering from the golden calf
that tempts you look away 

I am your shame,
the baker of unleavened will
the tainted hutzpah on your mind
a pestilence upon your pity
a barrier between you and the all divine
Form: Rhyme

Storm and After

Under water drowned
Gone with the wind
Under rubble buried
And by pestilence effaced
Smitten by a ferocious storm
Civilizations go into oblivion!!

+++++++++++++++++++++

The sun is shining
The shoots are erupting
The flowers are blooming
The butterflies are twirling
The sad old earth 
Is brimming with mirth
Form: Lay

Locusts

like wayward thoughts,
in swirling swarm,
dark pestilence 
from nowhere
suddenly descends
upon verdant farms,
darkening the summer
noonday sky;

hapless, helpless,
whole villages
scramble, stumble,
trying to fan
smoky embers
of hastily built bonfires,
to stoke torches' failing flames,
ah, frantic futility!

The Swarm

.

in swirling swarm,
like wayward thoughts,
dark pestilence 
from nowhere
suddenly descends
upon verdant farms,
darkening the summer
noonday sky;


hapless, helpless,
villages scramble,
stumble-- fanning
smoky embers of
hastily built bonfires,
stoking torches' 
failing flames,
ah, frantic futility!


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