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Short Decay Poems

Short Decay Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Decay by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Decay by length and keyword.


Equipment At Birth
Mind to wander
Soul to paratroop
Body to decay...

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Categories: decay, birth, satire,
Form: Triolet



Perfumes You Use
embalms
the living body
to make it sweet
for decay...

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Categories: decay, body, satire,
Form: Quatrain
Modern Tyrants
Political Games
Played over the dying
Trophy of decay....

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© A. Sanders  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decay, death, history, loss, philosophy, social
Form: Haiku
Decay
tranquility and I - trampled earth and greens gone astray...

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© Anna Li  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decay, corruption, earth, longing, lost, pollution, solitude, war,
Form: Monoku
Decay
Death decay dismay
twist the mind honour 
bright open truth...

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Categories: decay, death, evil, growth, tribute,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Decay
A tiny homeless man begging Death sits a coiled sidewalk fetus...

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Categories: decay, betrayal, dark, farewell, howl, society,
Form: Monoku
Devour.... In Its Place
Devour my mind,
With the blatant truth ever,
Blooming to decay....

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Categories: decay, life
Form: Haiku
Premium Member City Injuries
City in decay
That's the source of wound.
Does not have a voice....

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decay, analogy, community, conflict, confusion, environment, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Old Friends and Habits
gyrating grindstone

cold rusty winds kiss and chap

digestion decay...

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© Chris Con  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decay, life, perspective, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Life's Song

Notes lost in discord
Melodies still born
Silence and decay
...

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Categories: decay, dark, life, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Trees
Created from decay
Rotting bones and upset skulls
Green drifts forever...

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Categories: decay, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member winters aftermath
broken limbs decay 
blend into ground from winter 
magical things grow...

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Categories: decay, nature,
Form: Haiku
An Unknown Death
an unknown death

cracked leaves sigh and decay

bones infused in bark...

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© Sasha Edl  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decay, death, nature,
Form: Haiku
Forever Fading
What lasts forever?
All our actions and thoughts fade.
We are as if not....

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Categories: decay, beauty, corruption, sorrow,
Form: Haiku
Lie Candy
I ate your sweet vows of seduction
The truth decay my heart’s destruction...

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© Just James  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decay, betrayal,
Form: Epigram
Fall Harvest
Leaves shout with decay
October smells fill the air
It's the fall harvest...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decay, nature
Form: Haiku
Decay
The summer breeze sweeps
Little petals into flight
Singing songs of death....

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© Fm Rt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decay, allegory, death, imagery, irony, nature,
Form: Haiku
Pricked By a Rose
Who drank from this poison well
When prick by a rose
Where lover’s decay --...

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Categories: decay, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Anubis
Anubis, his decision, who has admission
mummification array, slows rot and decay...

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Categories: decay, animal, god,
Form: Alexandrine
Life Cycle
dry leaves fluttered down-
                an acorn sprouts beneath the
molded decay...

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Categories: decay, life, nature
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Beauty In Decay
like crunchy cornflakes gold leaves rustle under foot beauty in decay
...

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Categories: decay, autumn, beauty, inspirational, perspective, seasons, september,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Like My Heart
Outside 
the flower blossoms 
wither and decay,
just like my heart
after you went away....

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Categories: decay, lost love,
Form: Verse
Poison
Black water
Enters the system
Leaves decay
...

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Categories: decay, philosophy, sad, social,
Form: Senryu
Decay
HEll bElow snickErs 
As thE dEAd bodiEs dEcAy
fAding fAntAsy . . . 

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Categories: decay, absence, beauty, betrayal, change, confusion, deep, words,
Form: Haiku
Astray
Day by day.
Another look at the gray.
Slowly drifting astray.
Watch as I decay.
Shall we replay?...

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© Jason Earp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decay, dark, death, life, sad, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme

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