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Best Corrosion Poems

Below are the all-time best Corrosion poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of corrosion poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: corrosion, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ode To Love
In emerald dreams of a romantic isle
Beholden to your signature smile
Kiss me tender in secrets of runes
Cuddled in arms of a sensuous moon

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Categories: corrosion, love, romantic,
Form: Verse
My Torment
A fleeting still small voice tries to warn me
A sudden overwhelming desire to run
The tell tale taste of metallic flakes
Means my nightmare has begun

Everything around...

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Categories: corrosion, angst, confusion, depression, health,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member To a Poetic Time Lapse
TO A POETIC TIME LAPSE

As the sharp rays
of sunlight slowly sliced
through the tarrying tinted clouds,
I wiped away the web
of darkness of night;
broke off a piece...

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Categories: corrosion, allegory, emotions, simile, word
Form: Free verse
Rust Sleeps
Rust sleeps without the churchyard
on the blunt perimeter rails,
on the bloom of iron stabbing up
into the pelt of rain.

Rust sleeps upon the fence posts
where the...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: corrosion, death, life, philosophy, sad,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Graveyard of Ships
Beneath the fathom’s deep, in wreckage’s graveyard
Of the forgotten, here the broken bones of ships lie still,
Covered in a forest of seaweeds greenery.
Corrosion steel hauls...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: corrosion, hero, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Your Sun
Your soul is suffocating friend
I feel the sadness weighting you
The pain seems to be without end
My healing love cannot get through

You’ve buried hurt for far...

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© Judith S   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: corrosion, depression, friendship, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Shark Soup
Tim had all the necessary ingredients right next to his ancient burner


Shark teeth dangling from a sunken necklace at the cutting edge but

The amulet had...

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Categories: corrosion, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Car Court
CAR   COURT


Enter,   the older   heavyweight  steel  giant,
The bailiff,  a   1954 Hudson,  reads unhesitant...

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Categories: corrosion, allegorycar, car, drug,
Form: Verse
Callous
“Corrosion of feelings”, the accusation said. A seal, a signature. I was a bit confused, though, when the judge, a heavyset gentleman with a kind...

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Categories: corrosion, feelings,
Form: Haibun
An Immoral Man
I just can’t distinguish between 
the nerves of steel you clasp onto, 
or the weakness in momentary 
       ...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: corrosion, abuse, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oceans
My boyfriend (Peter) and I went down to New Haven Harbor today.

Let’s face it, we’re surrounded by oceans,
and most of them are downright inhospitable.

I live...

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Categories: corrosion, books, boyfriend, ocean, space,
Form: Rhyme
To Breathe....
To breathe 
I yearn to be I 
Unlock the chain that captures 
The walls close in 
I am dead
There is no beauty
Just a watched duty
I...

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Categories: corrosion, confusion
Form: Light Verse
I Choose
At times our SUBCONSCIOUS
holds memories we wish that had been
It can CONTORT the truth 
as it can ATTACH a happy
SIGNATURE to our very 
thoughts while...

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Categories: corrosion, conflict, courage, growth, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Let Go
You left to prey on another innocent heart,
and yet, it came as no surprise;
after all, it was your signature move.
My subconscious was willing to overlook...

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Categories: corrosion, 10th grade, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs