Best Decline Poems

Like maggots they simply crawl from the grave
Nothing seems normal or abnormal they just live on
As if the stars shine for no reason out the what once a man gave
Simple dots out in the sky appear for never known reason
They are the coexistence of our...

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The Moral decline of Norway

What I find when reading the comment pages 
in a leading Norwegian newspaper, is the absence
of charity and the arrogance of entitlement,
they will not be sullied by people fleeing famine
and war, they have themselves to blame why 
should we get up...

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You see it everywhere
The unmistakable signs

That the decline of America 
Is in full swing

As the world leaders turn away
From dealing with the US 

And we have gone past the tipping point
There is nowhere left to go
But downward 

As the Empire begins to collapse
Victim of imperial...

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My daily drive; today through pouring rain,
Behind road fog snaking towards me from the truck ahead,
Slowly approaching the cloud-shrouded glass and metal,
Framed by downtown's bustling highways.

Graffiti on walls and overpasses define the city climate
Testimony of a divided space and time
Obscenities litter the viaducts and road...

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The windows fog as I look outside,
Confused, so many tears I’ve cried.
My house, my home, unfamiliar to me,
Unable to recognize what I see.
Wondering around late at night,
Scared, and feeling things aren't right.
All the things I knew before,
No longer familiar anymore.
Friends from many years ago,
With names...

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To be what you think I should be
Your definition of poetry
I’m sorry 
But I respectfully decline

Write like Shakespeare, Frost or Angelou
Emulate what all other poets do
I’m sorry
But I respectfully decline

Copy, pretend or try to be
Anything other than Kimberly 
I’m sorry
But I respectfully decline

Live my life...

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Sudden, surly, vicious words
shake them to their core
the bear's awake, they must not make
their lord and master roar

Spitting, snarling, diatribes
make them fear his growl
the bear's awake, they must not make
a noise while he's a'prowl

Slowly, sadly, bitterly
the years and decades passed
the bear's now old and they've...

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At the shrinkage of the page
Expressions plead for length
Inhibition imposed on lines by columns
Words already accustom to scarcity
Pieces find focus in incompletion.

Thoughts flutter toward temples
Ready to leave prints on a canvass
Diving into ink, drying before depart
Leaving smudges with hints of beauty
Never a portrait to hold...

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At this late stage, should retire my mind
Still designing posters, making errors is a sign
Once very sharp
Missing parts
But my poetry is still clicking, that part's still fine...

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The decline of rich Men. 

 The numbers of American millionaires have declined
I read this as a news item and was amused. 

I know of an old man who became a lotto millionaire 
He had a facelift, and married a young woman.

But time was only...

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A thunderstorm booms from your lungs 
with every breath, to silence the violins 
meant to accompany the beat from your chest.
Keep your gaze held straight upward
and witness the crash of your eyelids.

It will stir the extravagant constellations 
that roam in your eyes.
Such a beauty the...

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By the year 2010 most of its inhabitants were paodophiles....

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BOXER

The late October day
marked the last of the tragic
encounters framed by the ropes
he preferred to the streets where a 
journeyman boxer needs more than
taped hands for the troubles he sees

There had been no title shot, no top
ten ranking, just fifteen years of blows
to the body,...

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How does an old man as old as me
Keep up with the changes in society 

Men can be women, old men can be girls
Pronouns can be mx or they, or hers

Abortion is healthcare through faces proud
Is said by the bearer who echoes the crowd

The word...

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In my old age 
I thought I’d have such yarns to tell,
of derring-do when I was hale and hearty.
Looking back, I wonder now just what befell
me in those years
and did I miss the party?
Distant echoes further fade
as all the days slip by.
An aproned lady combs...

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