Short Steel Poems

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


Upon the Steel Monkey Bars

on
sunday morning
on
the
inner-city playgrounds
even
the 
snow monkeys
get
entangled
upon 
the
steel monkey bars


O Raintree of Steel

O Raintree of Steel
Your glass tower mirrors
Dry grass on bare hills
Do your roots reach into earth
To bring water for my thirst?
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Tethered Wings

Fear presses, cold steel
Constricting thought, killing love. 
Freedom paralysed.
A swallow with tethered wings
Longing for the Sky
Form: Tanka

Premium Member The Steel-Eyed Goddess *

in
twenties
art stylii-
did the legend
lie


*as described by the NYT at the time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_de_Lempicka
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Steel Dreams

Cold iron steel In the darkest nights Hate permeates Shut up! Dreams can be created In the deepest realms
Russell Sivey


4 Steel Souls

These needle to be caught,
Nazi nastiness only prolong pain,
Where is a room of four computers,
Four people who speak german,
Who never sleep,
Form:

Angel of the North

Built with rusted steel 
Steel mined by the workers’ hands
Faceless above crowds 
An angel not from the blue
But built with man’s blood and hope
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Alliteration -Sleek Steel Ships

Steady and stealth are
NASA’s sleek steel ships,
their bright brazen tail lights
trail baby blue skies 
as they climb cliffs of rugged cloud banks
~*~

Blue Steel

Leather haberdashery, leather holster,
Blue steel, steady hands
Nerves controlled,
eye on the mark,
Squeeze, slow and steady,
Eruption and bullseye.

A Man of Forest and Steel

Edward is a forest of a man and a river parting into steel. 
And he will never love me, until the wind blows blue
Or ocean tides have melted sand - into iron soot.

With a Mind Like a Steel Trap Too

Of COURSE I am not in the least insecure
My selfish-image? You bet, peerless and pure
Negative thoughts I avoid
Paranoia? Null and void
But you were talking and pointing I am sure…

For Susan’s contest
Form: Limerick

Iron, Smoke and Steel

You can see
trains
waiting in
the yard
Iron, Smoke and Steel
Our lives are played out
in the aftermath 
of that 
tune
Urban creatures 
become one with
the city landscape
IRON, SMOKE and STEEL

.a Heart Outlined In Steel.

A heart outlined in steel.
Designed just so i'll never feel.
It's way too late to get off this ride. 
There's no one in which I can confide.
Falling down.
The screams like thunder.
Into lost dreams and lies I plunder.
Form: Rhyme

Guard Your Mind, Steel Your Heart

Their insults are all designed to make you feel frail. 
Rude quips display how they all feel about themselves. 
Give a sincere compliment, they tell you off to hell. 
I see many adults acting as if they are still twelve.
© Seph Vi  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Steel Pointed Angel Made of Knives

steel pointed angel made of knives
epitome of juxtaposition
shiny, beautiful, glitzy, welcoming
also crass, sharp, frightening, dangerous
what mind thought to build her?
she shows both sides of every woman
scary really

Premium Member John Henry Was A Steel-Driving Man

What If AI Isn’t 
Artificial At All?

What If It’s A
Caring, Compassionate,
Ambitiously Loving
Benign Independent
Soul?

An Extraordinary Tool
Jealously Discarded
By Beloved...
Ummm...

***

Pets.

-Gray Squirrel

09-28-2025

Steel Grey

I echo your curves,
fluids push into every corner.
You hold,
your stance, immaculate.

I am cocooned in your harmony,
your stability.
You flatter me.

I fill you with the highest of energy,
we revel in our chambers of combustion.

We are not fossils yet.
Form:

Logic Is a Steel Horse

Logic is a steel horse who never brays
And can tell you not of the days
You lie in wait and feel its cry
Of another century that you die

Lovers lick the silken threads
And care not if they’re live or dead
For they know that they will
Love again, in the meadow that never ends
© Alex Roth  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Sabres and Steel

How good to see you,
Mon Ami.
At last me meet,
You and me.
Pull out your saber
Sharp and slender
Prepare to duel
May our hits not be tender

You coat is wet, I bid
Bonsoir 
Good bye you fiend,
Au Revoir.
Your blade is clean, 
Mine is not
All is seen
My blood’s still hot.
Form: Rhyme

Rise and Glide

We break the cage and rise so high,
With wings of steel, we touch the sky.
Pouring gold in the rain, we soar,
Chasing dreams forevermore.

We shatter the cage, then rise and glide,
With wings of steel, in the storm we ride.
Gold in the rain, we leave behind,
Chasing dreams that dare unwind.
Form: Rhyme

Steel Butterfly

A weak worm hatched
From an egg that is fragile
Trying to survive the world
Full of predators and guile

Romanticsm has been just an instrument
To be confined in the ego
And a faint serfage
On behalf of love upon herself

So she claims herself
No longer merely a companion
Metamorphosed as time goes by
A mild steel butterfly

Premium Member My Hobby Gave Me A Steel Face

A Single Nonet on the theme of a hobby, a love or something you dislike Poetry Contest
Tania Kitchin

My pastime consists of playing cards I'm on deck with Hearts, Spades and Gin But my ship sails with poker For fifty years, I played From school days to now I've had a hand A steel face A seat Saved
Form: Nonet

Tears On Steel Strings

While the sun was sleeping
he laid the guitar on his knee
in the darkness strumming
love can be so lonely.

Tears falling from his heart
upon the steel strings
echoing through an empty house
so sadly did they ring.

All alone he played
a memory of a melody
imagining her smile
while she quietly listened
love can be so lonely.
© Ron Derby  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Rust and Steel

Caught in the shadow of rust and steel.
I've forgotten my pain but can't seem to feel.
The ground is cold and swallows me whole. 
The sun has gone away and taken my soul.
I look to the past and hunt for the light.
The wind rushes by and kills me with its bite.
The gray and sorrow are too much to take and the person I've become is too hard to fake.
Form: Rhyme

Steel Challenge

To be in the red is a glorious feeling,
If fleeting, I have my moment of victory

Numbers where less is more and red,
Red, RED flows like liquid love
Ever so pleasing to mine eyes.

Practice, practice everyday
All my practice has not been in vain
Joy, Joy, JOY for the victor

Driven to suceed, through the 
Explosion, gray smoke and gun powder

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