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Best Rotting Poems


The Bruised and Rotting Pear
Certain moments make this all worthwhile

'Random' presets left but to defile 


Blink your eyes to see the flash of white

Blink once more to gain a different sight


Milliseconds gazing at the stars

In which I understood you as you are


And in that time the notion came to...

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Categories: rotting, faith, hope
Form: Couplet
Rotting By Illness
What good is my being when I cant be myself. 
The only thing i am good at I cant deliver rap. 
A virus shredded my skin and dwelled deep within. 
And all am doing is rotting on my remains. 
My throat can't empower my words
My...

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Categories: rotting, death, grief, health, how
Form: Free verse
Rotting Flesh
I am rotting flesh. Ambivalent and obnoxious, but content with the irrational idea that I
am immortal. As I walk through the path of life, I hemorrhage thoughts. My naked body,
impregnated with ideals…exposes the divine truth of the defined sacredness of a goddess.

My womb has silently...

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Categories: rotting, motherpeople, people,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Rotting Metal Pines
The moon is low, so
I smile(d) at the
dark sky and the
stars that shine. I
speak to ones below.
I let my feet grab
the ground around
the rotten metal
pines. I move slow.
My drowning thoughts
catch wind of a fine
breeze, and are
brought to the
surface just in
time. Met by a dull
glow. And...

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© Kris Lund   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rotting, confusion, dark, grave, imagination,
Form: Narrative
The Rotting Edge of Hope & Abandon Pt. I
when the world falls,
will you be my figurehead queen?
dark regent, of my secret heart & broken-glass dreams
drip waterfall lies from full pink lips
& bleed out your truth(s) to me?
come silently in the night
over plush & supple fields of carpet
into the halls of my half-waking 
&...

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Categories: rotting, confusion, death, imagination, life,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member My Rotting Teeth
my rotting teeth


i wish
upon a star
tooth fairy saves my teeth
two browns said goodbye in past year
with rotten cousins looking to join them
a mask of sharp pain and bad breath
i hide behind gum, pills
dentist, star bright?
i wish

connie pachecho

2/23/17...

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Categories: rotting, absence, pain,
Form: Rictameter



Rotting Sleep
what made you do it?
what was your drive
to take a perfect masterpiece
and paint it black on the inside

was it the rush
a momentary insanity
the pain is dry now
a permanent mark

while your monsters run free
this piece is on display
silently rotting away...

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Categories: rotting, sad,
Form: Diamante
The Rotting Edge of Hope & Abandon Pt. Iii
i will be your untold lie
your broken glass
your silent echo of dreams-waking
to search only for what was left
broken & bleeding,
in that long ago doorway
those shattered pieces 
most define us
what we leave behind reminds us
what we've chosen
more than this - i will bleed silently
every truth i've...

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Categories: rotting, introspection, life, people,
Form: Blank verse
Rotting Underneath the Flesh
you open up a door
you open up a mind
shut out all the shadows
shut out what you find
and pretend that its okay
and fake that you are near
you'll never get away
your never leaving here
so bottle up your motion
and lock it deep inside
keep monsters underneath it
tell the devil...

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Categories: rotting, social, teen,
Form: Free verse
Rotting World
This world can be rotten.
Maybe you have forgotten?
Humans can be so ignorant.
Most can be so belligerent.

So why keep it the same?
Stand up to make a change.
Why live in this disintegrating land?
Make a difference with your own hand....

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Categories: rotting, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Rotting Light
Rot on me light, like murky cool damps,
That drip like some sweat in your sockets.
I look on green flesh, purple, bruised and unyearned,
Take it, take it, when it's all alright,
Like a fight that ended in closure.
Steal it from the smile, and take it.
They'd rape the...

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Categories: rotting, abuse, depression, evil, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Counting Days By Rotting Fruit
trying to forget all your reminders...

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Categories: rotting, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rotting of a Socialist
The rotting of a socialist


I knew of a young man a rebel who wanted
his country to adopt the Scandinavian model of socialism.
He was elected to great acclaim by the people,
to do what he wanted taxes had to go up especially among
the wealthy and upper middle...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rotting, autumn, change, chicago,
Form: Blank verse
I Am Rotting At Your Door
I am rotting at your door
It's nothing you haven't seen before
I wish I could stand up and leave
It's a tapestry of tragedy I weave

I bring this unto myself
Put my emotions on a shelf
In a jar, they're there to rot
This all-consuming story plot

There is nothing I...

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Categories: rotting, angst, i love you,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dwindling Decay

"Dead leaves lay still until the wind takes them
         here and there:  even the last flower is withered:
yet there is a beauty in decay. " 
          ...

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Categories: rotting, autumn, dark, death, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things