Short Versus Poems

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


Premium Member Wood fences versus metal fences

Wood fences are better neighbors they keep the outside world out when metal fences let you see what you don't want to see
Form: Monoku


Premium Member Palate Versus Palatte

hard palate
soft palate
taste taste taste
spit spit spit
which do you like the best?

I like the kind you put paint on
art

Premium Member Bird Versus Mouse

bird
delicate petite
flying flitting flapping
cardinal wren rodent shrew
scattering scurrying shrieking
gray round 
mouse
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Dog Versus Cat

dog
friendly, playful
jumping, barking, rolling
bone, ball, wall, throne
primping, preening, grooming
majestic, haughty
cat
Form: Diamante

Premium Member The Pen Versus the Sword

The incorrect usage of tense
And phrases of total nonsense
Wipe out brain status
With more apparatus
Than the Department of Defense
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Ukraine the New Strain

Plandemic hectic
Fast paced a new story'
One death too many

Fighting for freedom?
Lies versus everything
No deaths too many!
Form: Senryu

Trump Versus Heaven

Saint Peter at the Golden Gate
Is a man that Trump loves to hate
After The Fall
God needs a Wall
So build one before its too late!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Seals Versus Sea

caught in frigid traps
seals struggle against the sea…
population culls

*Strong waves hurled seals against rock walls, killing some.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Death To The Poets

The race to replace 
The Chosen disgrace
With bombs versus swords
They’re deaf to the hordes

So lay down your pen
It’s Never again
Form: Rhyme

Formula One

Talent versus genius,
innate the spirit cries

Surpassed by something undefined
—old limits left behind

(Dreamsleep: December, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Goodwill Versus Gain

Goodwill comes with pain.
Brotherhood trumps the jealousy
of personal loss 
when valor sacrifices gain.

a quadro written Jan. 17, 2017
Form: Rhyme

Love (Shoots From the Hip)

when doubt hurt anger
rise between us
when the and in you and me
may change to versus

then love smiles first
and asks questions later

Premium Member War Versus Peace

War
Devastation, pessimism
Scouting, hunting, killing
Country, hate, self, love
Meditating, praying, relaxing
Goodwill, optimism
Peace
Form: Diamante

Rode Versus Waded

Though most Americans praise it
Donald Trump has vowed to raze it
Why leave it to fate
When we can just mate
And let Republicans raise it?
Form: Limerick

Food Versus

Into the mouth
Out of the drought
None the worse
And none defiled
Out of the heart
With body parts
Come acts perverse
And all that's vile
Form: Didactic

Angel Versus Devil

The angel said, "Show her how you care!"
But the devil produced a lewd stare
In just a while
She gave a smile
A happy her pappy didn't share!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Violins Versus Violinists

sweetest strains of violins
  played by gents with double chins

ecstasy, as they hit the highest 'C'
  if they'd only comb their hair on key

Love Versus Lust

Some folk are prone to love affairs
For sex rewards the one who dares
They are hot to trot
Because they forgot
Miracles don't happen in pairs!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Dennis the Menace Versus Venus Williams -Playing Tennis

Tennis Menace Beaten Venus Surname... Dennis
9/17/19 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2019
Form: Footle

Premium Member Evolution Morn

one taut line drawn---
       
           old blood versus new blood---

                            evolution morn
~*~

Inspired by "Breaking Dawn"
Form: Senryu

Anxious Attachment

It is time.
I’ve had enough.
I see it, I feel it,
I recognize.

Risk versus benefit —
and I know the answer.
I have plenty of work to do here
© Laura Asad  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member cycle of folly

Repeat of the four-year refrain
Pits demented versus insane
We who are pundits
Say please call it quits
And would toast their obits with champagne
Form: Limerick

Premium Member OURSTORY VERSUS HISTORY

OURSTORY VS HISTORY

To God be the glory,
No need for us to worry;
He has ourstory:
We’re not of man’s history,
But of God’s great mystery!
Form: Tanka

May Versus Trump

Richard Nixon could not tell the truth
George Washington could not tell a lie
Donald Trump can not tell the difference
He just wants to torture a spy!
Form: Verse

Premium Member an ideas scale

a 'mega' -  seen...
of ideas called
a 'full - loss - of - why - now'

be where-in...
'free - will' is versus
endless 'deter - minisms'


stan
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.

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