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Best Decomposition Poems

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Premium Member Invisible Prison
Invisible Prison

I look at the wall
	I look at the floor
I look out the window
	I look at the door
No clock on the wall
	No light in the...

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Categories: decomposition, chicago, death, depression, psychological,
Form: Free verse



Everyday American Irritations
GROGGY BEDHEAD NO COFFEE SHUT THE BLINDS .... PRESIDENTIAL NO GOOD CHOICES TELIVISION SIGNAL GLITCH SMEAR ART CAMPAIGN... LATE NIGHT REHEATED RERUN RETWEEKED RETWEETED MORNING...

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Categories: decomposition, america, anxiety, celebrity, conflict,
Form: Blitz
Growing Pians
GROWING PAINS

It’s all about pain, frustration, tears. Fears, it’s all about fighting temptation
Watch the sun rise and set to the darkest thoughts of contemplation
My heart...

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Categories: decomposition, abuse, anger, break up,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Yangtruth With Yintegralbeauties
Beauty, like Truth,
speaks eternal promise
of timeless decomposition.

Flexing Grace
effects empathic Truth
optimizing promise prophets past
reiterating Golden Mythic Creation Stories.

Many have mentioned strength of compassion
and tenacious flexibility of...

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Categories: decomposition, health, love, nature, religion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Tick Tock - Itty Bitty
crepitus announces itself annoyed
at my impudence  as I climb the stairs
it speaks the language of stop, I don't

flatulence trumpets my presence
luckily no one is...

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Categories: decomposition, age, funny,
Form: Free verse



Her Majesty
English oak tree, named Quercus robur; though known as Her Majesty now
Named Majesty of the Woods; etiquette requires in my presence one must bow
Growing my...

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Categories: decomposition, age, old, tree,
Form: Personification
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: decomposition, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feasting of the Soul
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Categories: decomposition, faith,
Form: Shape
Chemical Reactions Exclusive
If you don’t know chemistry
Here’s some on reactions
It may not be much
But it’s still a good fraction
I don’t know where to start
So I’ll begin with...

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Categories: decomposition, art, funny, may,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Healthy Politics As Unusual
Creolization,
soars Dr. Jane Anna Gordon,
turns our co-empathic evolving democracy project
into a verbal,
active,
regenerative more,
degenerative less,
occasionally Elite-Pirates v NonElite-MultiCultural Prey revolution,
and even more unconsciously occasionally 
Elite/NonElite Creolizing-SelfReGenerative
crave...

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Categories: decomposition, beauty, body, community, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Reverse Creation
Taoist Principle of Reversion
grows metasystemic decomposition
degeneration
reverse creation
organic time and memory moving backward toward rebirth
of a Paradise Pleasing Planet.

Reversion anticipates the Yin-reverse action 
of indigenously wise...

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Categories: decomposition, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Watering Terror
I'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love overpowers competing fears
about scarcity of time, 
and other resources,
and anger about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a...

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Categories: decomposition, anger, destiny, fear, hate,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Sound of Leaves
Walking	-     leaves crackle crisply
Strolling	-     leaves shuffle and bugs scamper
Running	-     leaves crack and explode...

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Categories: decomposition, nature, time
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Father Time's Interview
Hi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form...

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Categories: decomposition, allegory, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Last Request
The knob turned
And opened the door
The door of the apartment
On the first floor
And the sudden gasp
Of air that the fireplace exhaled 
Knocked an ember 
To...

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Categories: decomposition, death, loneliness, longing, lost
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things