Get Your Premium Membership

Short Uncontested Poems

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


Premium Member uncontested
        on edge all my life 
        easily toppled over 
         rue this day today 
 my ribs are blown wide open 
     and butterflies fly away 

By
David Kavanagh...

Read More
Categories: uncontested, conflict, deep, introspection,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Butterfly Dreams
Though a butterfly is with us,
For such a short time,
It’s not longevity,
That captivates one’s mind,
Its beauty is uncontested,
Its aerial ballet serene,
So thank you dear butterfly,
For seeding my dream...

Read More
Categories: uncontested, spring,
Form: Light Verse
Complexity Denied
As warlord of the ticking count…
  time marches uncontested

Avoiding every scrutiny,
  defending every lie

All seasons caught within its grasp,
  each day a slave in training

Order becoming disorder again
  —complexity denied

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)...

Read More
Categories: uncontested, time,
Form: Rhyme
Thousand Shards of Glass
A grey area through which we trudge
A thousand arcing shards
Sol, dust on the rift of illumination
A thousand cut-throat shards
Forever lead astray by the light
The boundaries of truth
Oh so tyrannical
Uncontested
.
..
...
Tick, tick
The bell to resound
The fangs to arch in
For a rogue shard could ne'er defy...

Read More
Categories: uncontested, analogy, conflict, hate, how i feel, silence,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry