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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


Premium Member In the Bed They Make
And 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



Premium Member Lady Luck
Lady 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
Premium Member I Fell In Like With You
Inspired 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
Premium Member Mournful Harp
As 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 Duty
With 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Clasped Hands
deteriorating 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 Secret
I 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Valentine's Day
My 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 Grandpa
To: 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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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deteriorating, blessing, death, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Verse
Ultimatum of French Ambassador To Leave Niger In 48 Hours From Last Friday
When 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 Touch
TEMPTATION'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
Premium Member Feeling Better
Systems,
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

Book: Shattered Sighs