Deteriorating Poems

My Longing Heart

...Mesmerized by you 
Your sway is okay all the way, I’m left to pray 
I appreciate you too
Your day is slay and now, you want me away…
There’s a distance between
You and I in the evergreen 

My ...
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Categories: deteriorating, beauty, desire, words,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Eulogy in Memory of My Dead Love

...A Eulogy in Memory of My Dead Love

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen! My Loved Brothers and Sisters! Respected Believers!
This day, this Saturday, is very sad in the calendar. Cold, oppressive autumn day...
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Categories: deteriorating, death, fate, life, love,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberGames People Play

...she plays scenarios in her head
till she can’t distinguish
shades from fact or fiction

it started out all innocent
at first she didn’t sense the danger
she let her thoughts play drift
and ski...
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Categories: deteriorating, anxiety, emotions, fantasy, fear,
Form: Free verse

ABSOLUTE ZERO

...LOST AND UNRECOGNIZABLE, LOOKING LIKE THE WORST ABSTRACT ART, THROWN TOGETHER ACCIDENTALLY

 THROWN ASIDE LIKE AN OLD CAR TAKEN TO A JUNKYARD TO BE CRUSHED AND SHREDDED

DETERIORATING LIKE AN OLD...
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Categories: deteriorating, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPAINFUL WORLD

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Even in a dark world, you think their is light
Every time I open my eyes, nothing but pain in my sight

People are hurting, bodies are deteriorating, minds going crazy
Every morning, I wake u...
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Categories: deteriorating, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, courage,
Form: Rhyme


Dear God

...Dear God,

It's me again your broken child.
 I never could figure out this thing called life. 
No matter how much I give mentally physically and financially.
 It's never enough. 

I'm all ways...
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Categories: deteriorating, anxiety, confusion, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWaymo's Service Is A Detriment To The Economy-Society

...Waymo's Service Is A Detriment To The Economy-Society

Waymo's self-driving taxi service, or ride share service, contributes very little to the economy and food chain. Whereas human drivers of taxi...
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Categories: deteriorating, conflict, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBlind Electiion

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and the garbage piles up.
Nose-blind by now,
the public doesn’t even
smell the increasing stench.
Inured to the political slush,
minds grind to a halt,
gravitating to one or
another single t...
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Categories: deteriorating, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOde To Mankind

...Prologue:
	
	To the majority of people who seem to have lost touch
	this is presented as a declaration to be treated as such.
	And just for the world's deteriorating natural environment
	of whic...
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Categories: deteriorating, birth, corruption, death, environment,
Form: Ode

Her Last Secret

...I liked her better when she was old
and on her own.
She hated company, and no one called.
She wasn’t the mother I remembered;
she was better and worse,
as I was.

After her surgery,
she staye...
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Categories: deteriorating, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberprecious little shadows

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       I never knew you ...

yet you were mine -
mine as completely as any other that ever
drew breath or dreamed a dream
on this unforgiving orb …
"The Choice" ... THAT choice,
was never ou...
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Categories: deteriorating, analogy, child, children, death,
Form: Free verse

For Shelby

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I find myself lost in thought
Reminiscing back to when we were kids
And damn how I miss the old days
But I know this life 
will never be that way again
   Crawling in and out of bedroom window...
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Categories: deteriorating, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme

recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ more

...Deliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams
I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams
Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed
Hanging at t...
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Categories: deteriorating, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse

You and i were friends

...Still stuck up in the page
Where I can't escape
From your words
Deteriorating my worth

Ain't it funny how
I used to make you laugh
Now I cry silently 

Have you forgotten
The birds were me...
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Categories: deteriorating, anxiety, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

To live in ruins until I am

...To W.B. Yeats

There is something to my life that cannot be described as "lonely".
But a forgotten detail in a missing puzzle piece.
The secondary woman in the background
For she lets t...
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Categories: deteriorating, betrayal, break up, deep,
Form: Free verse

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