Best Deteriorating Poems
Below are the all-time best Deteriorating poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of deteriorating poems written by PoetrySoup members
In the Bed They MakeAnd when will the tides turn against confident indifference?!
When will humanity cease
To throw cats against curiosity’s silver coated dagger
Another played out song
Another dramatic lyric
Shifting embellished...
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Categories:
deteriorating, life, psychological, slam,
Form:
Free verse
Lady LuckLady Luck ~ (the Nonet)
Tears, shadows that swallow other tears
united and out of control
eyes decompose like soft coal
water, in swimming hole
everglade pistol
celestial toll
river...
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Categories:
deteriorating, depression, sad,
Form:
Nonet
Elicit Illicit Lucid Dreams -Contains Nudity-~JSLambert does not (currently:) use, or encourage hallucinogenic drug use.
Telepathic psilocybin prescription erasing elastic depression. Competition
wanes, just when nocturnal emission...
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Categories:
deteriorating, allegory, allusion, appreciation, beauty,
Form:
Carpe Diem
I Fell In Like With YouInspired by one of my favorite bands, Rise Against, and the song is called,
“Ever-changing” (Acoustic). Please listen to this song if you don’t know of...
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Categories:
deteriorating, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Mournful HarpAs I lie amongst wildflowers
beneath the butterfly weeds,
you pondered, through my mind
as you often do,
delicately fragile
essence bursting free
eccentric, dazzling colours
deteriorating, slight physique ~
weakening petals withered
mournful...
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Categories:
deteriorating, beautiful, best friend, butterfly,
Form:
Free verse
My Virtue Is My DutyWith the morning begins my day;
Different roles I'm ready to play.
Again and again I am perturbed ,
But nature and emotions are undisturbed.
Silently, without a...
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Categories:
deteriorating, inspiration, meaningful, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
precious little shadows -I never knew you ...
yet you were mine -
mine as completely as any other
that ever drew breath or dreamed a
...
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Categories:
deteriorating, absence, bereavement, children, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
Clasped Handsdeteriorating mind - remnants of time clasped in wrinkled hands
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A Pick a Picture Contest
Hosted by James Edward Lee Sr.
Based on Image 2
Placed 1st
30th March...
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Categories:
deteriorating, age, time,
Form:
Monoku
Mother's Last SecretI liked her better when she was old
and on her own.
She hated company, and no one called.
She wasn’t the mother I remembered;
she was better and...
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Categories:
deteriorating, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Tragic Savant“It” embraces “togetherness”
Like blemished mascara on a retired call girl
“It” would speak in aggressive audible banter,
As if crystallized bullhorns were
Strapped
Onto unwelcome seating arrangements
No boundaries.
No consideration.
No...
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Categories:
deteriorating, life, slam,
Form:
Free verse
Valentine's DayMy friends have always hated Valentine's Day.
They ridiculed the pimply-faced boys
Whose hormone-infused offerings
Smell of Axe cologne and sweaty palms.
Greater the mocking of pubescent princesses
Who prance...
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Categories:
deteriorating, cinderella, february, heart, love,
Form:
Prose
Rest In Peace GrandpaTo: My Grandpa
~1918-2016~
Grandpa was sharp as a whistle up until the very end. Old age and time passing just took a toll on his poor...
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Categories:
deteriorating, blessing, death, funeral, goodbye,
Form:
Verse
Ultimatum of French Ambassador To Leave Niger In 48 Hours From Last FridayWhen someone is told to go back in his country
in peace, it is very wise to go early
to avoid public shame.
When the...
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Categories:
deteriorating, africa, political,
Form:
Free verse
Temptation's TouchTEMPTATION'S TOUCH
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His palm soothes the ridges
Furrowed in her starlight skin
Her masseur, he replenishes
Each and every aching extremity
The chiming bells of his strokes
Ring again and again
Summoning...
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Categories:
deteriorating, christian, corruption, evil, sin,
Form:
Concrete
Feeling BetterSystems,
ecosystems,
and ego body-systems,
patriotic systems
and feminist systems
mutually improve,
grow more robust,
resilient,
resonant when WinWin relationships
between diversely paradigmatic elements
within said system
and between unsaid systems
improve,
grow more healthy wealth together
well-greased co-operative...
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Categories:
deteriorating, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse