Best Rots Poems
Below are the all-time best Rots poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rots poems written by PoetrySoup members
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 MoonI 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.
Collapsed...
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Categories:
rots, depression, loss, lost love,
Form:
Personification
All That Refuse To SeeAll 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
Faith and Chocolateour 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 CurrentsNo 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
SkeletonThe 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
A Winter's SongThe 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
Old BridgesOver 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
Ice In the VeinsWith 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 GoneI 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
Destruction, As Kali Walks Upon Earthen GroundsDestruction, 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
Dinner Is ServedYour 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 AgoShe 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 MemoriesI 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