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Decaying Poems - Poems about Decaying

Premium Member On walks, my dog loves to sniff death and decay
On walks, my dog loves to sniff death and decay, and never seems to ponder ~ how things got to be this way. ...

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Categories: decaying, 12th grade, dark, dog,
Form: Tercet
Updating James Shirley
'Scepter and Crown must tumble down.' wrote a poet of a long past day. For want of renewal, must so many a school not tumble but crumble away....

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Categories: decaying, political, school, vanity,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Decayed
Once vibrant and alive, hope danced in our eyes, But now, a flickering ember, slowly it dies. Time's cruel touch, it weaves its bitter thread, Unraveling love, leaving hearts heavy with dread. The promises once made, like whispers in the wind, Now fade away, like echoes that rescind. Love, once a flame that burned with fiery passion, Now flickers weakly, consumed by...

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Categories: decaying, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On a Decaying Log
in the midst of death- lichens come to life...

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Categories: decaying, nature,
Form: Monoku
Decaying As I Wander On His Road
Got caught in a shimmering, glimmering summer haze Gone through anxiety and hallucinations — hate this phase Don’t discard me when I’m trekking this road This road of God’s abode…I admire and abide in it — He’s my joyous ode I’m going through this heaven in the hellish world I live in I can’t even speak, having no words in...

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Categories: decaying, angst, anxiety, hope, how
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Decaying
house long forgotten where whispers still ...

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Categories: decaying, nature,
Form: Free verse
Decaying Fruit
Produce stand stops for fresh strawberries. Nowhere to put them but your car. Summer heat creeping through the glass. The berries are wilting in the floorboard. Unbeknownst to you. Wilting like your love. Unbeknownst to me....

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Categories: decaying, break up, fruit, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Like Decaying Bouquets
My soul is bleeding, bleeding, as a thousand sharp daggers stab me; for the headstones are green mossed, and I hold to my heart tattered memories; ...

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Categories: decaying, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Decaying Memories
The pics masked In name-stamped boxes Shelf dusting And shatter When remembrances dissolve, Each work took my sight. Written: January 09, 2022...

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Categories: decaying, analogy, celebration, memory, metaphor,
Form: Shadorma
Decaying World
Times of turmoil, Move with times of joy, As the progression continues, So does decay, Times are unexpected, Despite being foretold, The heartbreak still happens, Even tho it’s known, I guess, If you don’t taste it, You will never, Face it, So the trials never end, As a chapter, It follows evermore, And the result is after death!...

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Categories: decaying, cry, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Corpse and Hesitating Shovels
To the venue we unfortunately got close And the stench pounced on my nose, Forcing in a harming dose And inconveniencing six other nostrils That lived for only salubrious thrills: The fattest challenge Rude stench throws To our finicky population plus those Who readily glimpse the woes In the dreadfully non- fragrant And about them could rant... But soon questions I began to pose About...

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Categories: decaying, betrayal, death, horror, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Decaying Red Roses
I slowly open the old, rusty cemetery gate that groans, it squeaks and creaks in the still night, the trees are swaying dark shadows, reaching out for me- ...

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Categories: decaying, death, poetry, writing,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Decaying Headstone
Mossy vines camouflage decaying headstone Thus hidden and fallen into disrepair Foliage ever swallow so it cowers Deeply weatherworn lettering embraced there Threads of piercing light filtering through windblown Limbs surrounded by trees, ferns, and wildflowers Strewn mounds of decomposed fallen trees below Cool nature's spirit aspirating showers 9/28/2020 Writing Challenge - Decay - Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Constance La France...

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Categories: decaying, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Decaying House
DECAYING HOUSE Old lady living in old building. Doors with rusty latches, windowpane broken, cornice full of feral ferns. ...

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Categories: decaying, 12th grade, appreciation, longing,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Decaying Friendships
Friendships that go bad Some even must decay I am still missing you I sit alone on the bay. ...

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Categories: decaying, farewell, friendship, heartbreak, lonely,
Form: Quatrain

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