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Best Decline Poems

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


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: decline, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
ONE WORD~

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

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Categories: decline, abuse, analogy, art, corruption,
Form: Epic
The Moon Pours White Wine
At a table in a garden, on a soft, sweet, summer's night
Two friends are sitting talking by the moon's reflected light.
On the table in the...

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© Jeff Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decline, friendship, lovegarden, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summer's End
SUMMER’S END *

Down her meadow’s sweetness
By name of Summer’s End
This smallish thatch work cottage
With it’s proper artful sign
Hung at eaves with slightest tilt
By portal in...

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Categories: decline, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dancing With the Devil
Lost between the borders of heaven and hell,
confusion led to this story, one must tell.
Surrounded by a world full of violence,
I closed my eyes and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decline, angst, introspection, psychological,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

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Categories: decline, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member How Long Is Forever
The vision calls me once again against this restless night
in brilliant strata gems, in timeless dreams of light.
I close my ancient eyes, and there, so...

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Categories: decline, age, love, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poetry Soup - a Souper Site
Fake News

As I was reading on the Soup with my morning cup-o-joe.
I saw a disturbing statement and it worried me so.
It was about our Poetry...

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Categories: decline, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Would You
Scrolling and scrolling 
the scripts slipping in 
seduction of the scene 
seen or unseen 

deflection 
not to mention reflection 
mirrors don't always appear 
to be...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decline, love, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poem of Ruth
The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a...

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Categories: decline, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Character
Inside my heart I have unwritten codes
Those values I enforce by self demand
Unbreachable, my lines drawn in the sand
Their presence helps to navigate my load

With...

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Categories: decline, character,
Form: Italian Sonnet
My Tree
MY TREE

Beside the Kinta River still it stands
Colossus of the primal forest panoply
The tree a native of the fecund land
It’s limbs support the graceful arcing...

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Categories: decline, nature, tree,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Another Season
For years, I've watched my seasons come and go
Beneath the pines along the River Brine
I've drunk my fill of robust summer wine
Survived the stinging lonely...

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Categories: decline, life, seasons,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Nothing More To Say
I've nothing more to say
I think I've said it all
I'm out of thoughts and clever rhymes
no words I can recall

I've covered every season
of life and...

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Categories: decline, goodbye, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
My Time To Shine
Running barefoot through the open field
No worries, enjoying what the day will yield
Free spirit, given free reign to roam the town
Sun up to sun down,...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decline, life, mom,
Form: Rhyme

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