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Best Rotting Poems

Below are the all-time best Rotting poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rotting poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member To All the Heart Breakers -A Zombie's Valentine
Wouldn't you rather~

Wouldn't you rather be dead?
Maybe shoot yourself in the head?
Over my dead heart, I'd never want to be a zombie like you.
The sight...

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Categories: rotting, anger, death, horror, humorous,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: rotting, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: rotting, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
The Woman They Know
 Her smiles of valor encase her agony--
   her fiery scars pound against her sanity
    struggling in twisted ropes of...

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Categories: rotting, analogy, courage, hope, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Touched Me
Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it...

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Categories: rotting, miracle,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Lives I Have Known Potd
It has been ages since the laughter died, which was many suns ago,
Soon swept away by fleeting time, like the brief giggle of a rainbow.

My...

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Categories: rotting, absence, house, imagery, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Dead Men Do Tell Tales

 I saw, the rot of sad, deep selfish desires,
 burning endlessly in clever fires
 Piles of cash a tall mountain...

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Categories: rotting, conflict, cry, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Stalker's Love Poem
They say I’m crazy, but I can’t forget
how she smiled at me when our eyes first met.
To see her, to hear her - each day...

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Categories: rotting, love hurts,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member - the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: rotting, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ingredients of Life
Sweetness and sourness of life
depends on the seasoning of emotions.
We are blessed with the gift of birth,
but our thoughts are processed
using different ingredients.

We all explore...

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Categories: rotting, analogy, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eaten By the World
Eaten By The World

I tried to eat the world
but it caused me stomach pains
The bones of the lost 
are all that remains
It was flavored with...

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Categories: rotting, angst, anxiety, creation, scary,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Haunted House
The Haunted House

Driving with my date at midnight, looking at the August moonlight, 
lonely road, no one in eyesight, searching for a place to park.
Off...

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Categories: rotting, horror, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disorientation
My distant spirit is dying, 
disheartened, disintegrating and self deprecating.
Defenceless, as hope disappears,
emotionally shipwrecked in deep waters,
yet to be discovered. 

In the sadness of sentimental...

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Categories: rotting, angst, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Little Boy Lost
Poor Little Boy Lost plays a game of peekaboo
Pretending everything in his world is well
Spoiled was his plan for organizing a coup
and now he hopes...

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Categories: rotting, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Mournfully, My Heart Bleeds
I've written of great longing while my teardrops flare
Rhyming lines of sorrow that were nested in my mind
Tomes of poetry that exposed the depth of...

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Categories: rotting, lost love,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs