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Decrepitude Poems - Poems about Decrepitude

VISION OF A TORMENTED WORLD
...The din of darkness, The cacophony of impostors, The symphony of ignorance, The decadence of progress, Colonial heritage, The empire of the pharaohs, The agony of the pyramids, The orde......

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Categories: decrepitude, 12th grade, adventure, africa,
Form: Free verse
Overzealousness and Assiduousness
...Overzealousness and assiduousness... now propels yours truly towards restitution courtesy sophisticated mountebank, whose criminal mind filched mine banknotes rationed for when I exhibit decre......

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Categories: decrepitude, angel, anger, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Time
...Once I was young, now I'm an oldie; Once I was shiny, now I'm all moldy.......

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Categories: decrepitude, age, death, depression, fate,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Weathered Decades
...Mausoleum and graves extremely old They have not withstood test of endless time Human love and tragedy long grown cold Lay under protection of pure divine. Weathered decades obliterated......

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Categories: decrepitude, bereavement, death, grave,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member How Great Thou Art
...He left this world as he entered, helpless On the edge of darkness gasping for air While I soundly slept unimagined in my bed Got the call in the dark dead of night Reasoning to myself it w......

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Categories: decrepitude, death, father,
Form: Acrostic



Time
...See that the merciless spear of time wounds the senses it's the molecules inside you that stagger dizzily the ancestral oracle didn't need to warn you that this distressing moment would one day......

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Categories: decrepitude, allegory, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life's Trajectory
...detachment from malignant entities from malignant entities results malignant entities results in entities results in transient results in transient peace in transient peace dejection transient ......

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Categories: decrepitude, age, angst, dark, pain,
Form: Free verse
Courtesy Severely Receding Hair Line
...Courtesy severely receding hair line..., yours truly enveloped within morose mood I (Samson incarnate) frankly experience zapped strength, hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth when ab......

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Categories: decrepitude, absence, anger, crush, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Sinkhole
...A sinkhole, deep as 20 feet, Collapsed without a warning, Around the corner from my street Quite early in the morning. Repair crews came but no one knows What caused the sudden sinking. Decre......

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Categories: decrepitude, city,
Form: Rhyme
Some Poems
...A Stolen Memory A Mirthful Chorus By Sy Roth We surrounded him Asked to let go. She stared at the misshapen face, Unshaven sandpapery skin Eyelids a tabula rasa Fluttery sere skin And......

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Categories: decrepitude, dream, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Mercurial
...Increasing my laughter eyes full of tears invisibly Heart shouting help Limiting at my ears Can't be spoken out loud Faded destiny My quest fades in the deep of away Embellishing my pain w......

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Categories: decrepitude, anxiety, deep, heartbroken, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Healthy Democracy Candidates
...Skills for best qualified candidates for healthy democratic leadership on my Ultra-NonViolent WinEgo/WinEco-bicameral short list for 20/20 revisioning During a global climate challenge and mu......

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Categories: decrepitude, culture, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
No Vanity Set For This Chap No Way
...No Vanity Set For This Chap, No Way (in praise of immortality) Modesty an understatement, when eyes chance to look askew at looking glass, mine reflection caught at a glance, an old man's pie......

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Categories: decrepitude, age, analogy, change, father,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Welcome To the Underworld
...A victim of the streets She's one of the homeless, A victim of society She left the broken home, Try as they may there was no fixing it, Her parents deciding, to go their own ways, ......

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Categories: decrepitude, abuse, addiction, drug, home,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Refund, Please
...So I'd like a refund on my age I'm damn SICK of getting old ... Please, I want to be a kid again With no worries, goals, or bills I'd rather be tagged "immature" Than "older than the hills" ... I have studied this "decrepitude" How it's changing me and friends Thus I'm swapping my Life's Story ... I don't like the way it ends.......

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Categories: decrepitude, age, childhood, old, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain

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