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Best Rots Poems

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Premium Member Stars and Those With Stripes
"America First",
is the worst.
Should not thinking of others,
be your thirst?
Those who are selfish,
end up being cursed!
Soon they'll be last,
instead of first.

Who among you,
prefers guns and...

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Categories: rots, black african american, class,
Form: Political Verse



I Look To the Moon
I look to the Moon, hanging aloft
Among the clouds so milky soft.
How must it feel, so high above?
So chilled and bleak and void of love.

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© Mike Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rots, depression, loss, lost love,
Form: Personification
Premium Member All That Refuse To See
All That Refuse To See


Your ears shut wide eyes up tight
a menagerie sits in absent light
Time and reason are out of sight
stonecold now is courage's...

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Categories: rots, angst, conflict, corruption, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Faith and Chocolate
our God is bountiful because


Jesus is Robin Hood turning the tables in the forest temple

and Friday treasures an island of hope in my child’s mind

‘you...

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Categories: rots, god,
Form: Free verse
Sifting the Currents
No one scoops up the vast subtleties
Of my mind's water
Quite like the hands that adore me most 
There are no holes,
No overflows, nor spills
This soul...

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Categories: rots, art, blessing, dedication, devotion,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Skeleton
The skeleton

On the day you were born
I have bestowed upon you
We will spend together a lifetime
Without me inside you compare to glue
Like the cockroach who...

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Categories: rots, adventure, angel, deep, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Winter's Song
The brazen wind flows through the naked trees, 
where multitudes of scrawny fingers attached 
to stout limbs conduct the aria.

the trill of the dawn
awakes the...

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Categories: rots, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Old Bridges
Over streams
or above deep ravines,
they cling to the earth that supports them.

Having borne years of burdens, their bones are cracking;
the splintery skin of their once-strong...

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Categories: rots, old,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ice In the Veins
With a silence that cut through the laughter
She entered the room, bitterness
Edged around her features, portraying
Cruelty with an unfeeling sword of darkest
Gloom, dread so dismal...

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Categories: rots, anger, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
Brenda's Gone
I don't mean to be someone I'm not.
I'd love to be clean
But my spirit just rots,
I've quit before
That's the easy part.
Then the addict inside
Takes over...

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Categories: rots, addiction, cry, drug, how
Form: Personification
Clive Gets Woke, Part Ii
“...The leftists that you voted for
jacked up the minimum wage,
so new workers like me cannot
get hired, much less get paid.

“And those very same people
ignore foreigners...

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Categories: rots, anger, change, growth, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Destruction, As Kali Walks Upon Earthen Grounds
Destruction, As Kali Walks Upon Earthen Grounds


Goddess of Destruction that teams with the Lord of Lusts 
As wrathful winds bequeath savage ravaging gusts
Hades match, ...

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Categories: rots, art, conflict, creation, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dinner Is Served
Your cup is filled with 
anger. Always a bitter 
brew to be swallowed 

Revenge will be your 
soup de jour. It is a soup 
that...

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Categories: rots, philosophy
Form: Rhyme
She Lost Her Brain Long Ago
She lost her brain long ago
Sanity vanished along with the ghost of time
Calloused bones reach from the ground
No sound 
Just shallow breath
That breathes
And snarls a...

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Categories: rots, angst, beauty, confidence, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Unpurged Sad Memories
I am but an unsolvable puzzle,
A strange enigma of shattered pieces,
Mute, voice restrained by an iron muzzle,
     Dreadful as despair slowly...

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Categories: rots, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs