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Best Decaying Poems

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Within Reason- Maurice Yvonne and Seren Roberts
Within reason
lies a house full of ordinary
a chest of bland memories. 
 
            ...

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Categories: decaying, life,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
ONE WORD~

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, 
Running through my mind,
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, 
Running through my veins,
               ...

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Categories: decaying, abuse, analogy, art, corruption,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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Categories: decaying, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi

I had heard the legend of...

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Categories: decaying, appreciation, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
When we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...

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Categories: decaying, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Petitioning Spring of Tomorrow
Smile, O spring, smile, upon crimson arc of morning
Grinning through willows filtering golden sunbeams,
Sparkling from eyes of dew, glinting realms pristine,
Reveling through prairies, giggling tenor...

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Categories: decaying, imagery, spring,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Soothing Serenades
Pained piano keys compose 
a chorus-less composition.
Melancholic moods crave
to sway back and forth  
like bluebells and lilies dancing,
when kissed by the morning breeze

Forlorn flute...

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Categories: decaying, analogy, deep, sad,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Floccinaucinihilipilification and Very Little Bread
Floccinaucinihilipilification And Very Little Bread
       ( First of Three Poem Trilogy )

I

I've no problem with bardolatry fans
their barmecide and...

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Categories: decaying, appreciation, art, character, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Waltz With Every Season
Undulate on burbling rivers rushing to meet sea,
Buoying spring’s hilarity, ceding to summer’s plea;
Marvel on wings of autumn as falling colors spree,
Rejoice pristine snowflakes adulating...

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Categories: decaying, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ambedo
As shades of grey overwhelm white clouds,
their rain tears begin to pitter and patter,
creating a pattern upon my skin.
Like a dehydrated petal, I taste their...

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Categories: decaying, analogy, childhood, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As I Watch the Waves Crash
From precipice of memories, flashbacks nostalgic billow,
Thinking of you as I ruminate, adoring the views below,
Where waves oceanic dance, leaping on windy tempos,
Propagating ambitions of...

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Categories: decaying, life, lost love, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Would You Still Love Me?
If no longer could I inscribe, upon tapestries of rosy skies,
Dreams tinted violet, blossomed in themes amethystine,
And no longer could I weave-in the dreamscapes of...

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Categories: decaying, love, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Princess of the Petals
Beyond her veil;

eyes induced by secretive stars
became drawn to a path illuminated by 
flickering, shimmering pale moonlight.
Each spirited step led to the 
revelation of her...

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Categories: decaying, analogy, deep, silence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Tangled Vines
I walk along the old familiar path in the wood of my childhood -
the place that I willingly abandoned  
for the lure of new...

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Categories: decaying, childhood, life,
Form: Free verse
Jesus's Love Matters
Jesus’s love matters when the garden of eden turns to grey,
The fertile ferns frown as spirituality has been driven away…
A rosette reverence redeems within the...

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Categories: decaying, conflict, evil, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

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