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Best Decency Poems

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


Premium Member Giving Decency a Voice
In the dreary tune of a city's groan,
when streets escape the raging claws
of  haggard breaths, a line of stars blink
trading some warmth with human...

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Categories: decency, corruption, environment,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Willow Tree
Someday I'd like to wander free
like butterfly, like bumblebee,
perhaps to plant a willow tree
beside the silent solemn sea,

before these things exist no more,
from mountain top...

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Categories: decency, daffodils, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Annoys Me
What Annoys Me.

         The Wedding of Rubbish and Nonsense.

Dearest readers; Please stand, for the big day has...

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Categories: decency, betrayal,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Scars Left Behind
Remembering the days of yesteryear
when family ties were held most dear,
gas lamps flickered in the back street
while most of us danced a different beat.
Tragic alleyways...

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Categories: decency, life, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mountebank
A dispenser of dishonest vice, a peddler of blatant lies,
In his unscrupulous realms, nobility of truth sadly dies,
Where righteous vibes of morality and decency agonize;
Where...

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Categories: decency, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme



The City and the State of Play Today
THE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY

No one worries about morals today 
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on...

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Categories: decency, business, community, corruption, international,
Form: Free verse
What If (God Took a Vacation)
Life becomes so busy that sometimes we loose sight
of, He who protects us through the darkness of night.

He is our shelter, our becon in the...

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© Karla Null  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decency, faith
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Suicide Dolls
Suicide Dolls

Tiss a maddening state of affairs
Why my lovers don’t gas themselves to death
Have they not the decency to assist my endeavors?
Is my future to...

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Categories: decency, confusion, dark, depression, destiny,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member When You Wear a Dirty Shirt
When you wear a dirty shirt,
You're a book getting judged by its cover.
People think you're really poor, or nutty,
Or that you have a menial job.
Or...

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Categories: decency, humor,
Form: Free verse
You Want Emotion
You want emotion...
Tell me, ask me, beg me to show you my soul, my secret place where my muses dwell.
My living hell. The tainted sea...

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Categories: decency, emotions, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Human Nature
Our Human Nature

A real aspect always part of a person’s life;
One that can bear fangs and pangs of strife.
 
A living barometer replete with its...

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Categories: decency, allusion, god, imagery, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member valor's silhouette
friendship - we have chased that apparition, endlessly,

          but it's elusive spirit - always beyond our...

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Categories: decency, analogy, character, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Romance Day and Night
Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or...

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Categories: decency, romance, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Chronicler of Events and Emotions
Chronicler of Events and Emotions

As a Poet and as a Writer . . . 
I’m a Chronicler of Events and Emotions;
I watch, observe, and record...

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Categories: decency, allegory, imagery, introspection, metaphor,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member About That Certain Thing Called Nonsense
About That Certain Thing Called Nonsense

Nonsense is that certain symbolic communication form
that oft pervades our human space with its absurdity!

All of us from time-to-time have...

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Categories: decency, allegory, deep, image, life,
Form: Couplet

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