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.


Beneath

Here I am.
Everywhere we were.
Capillaries fill with her,
rotting roots beneath trees,
feeding truth in buried leaves.


Premium Member Why Does the Flower Fade

Why does splendor gray
Why does the flower fade
  Once a fair maiden
  Now an old maid
Beauty's virtue lies not in decay
Form: Rhyme

To Decay

Somewhere
When you decided to go
And, if you there still
Everyone,everything beginning to die
you too,
with they, to decay...
© Leila Anka  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Shape

Premium Member Lump of Foam

Form trembles my mind
all matter fads to decay
Empty sense objects
void, hollow, insubstantial
breathes mental impermanence
Form: Tanka

Echo

When sounds of beauty do decay.
    Each cadence softly fades away.
    Their echoes finally replay.
    
    27/ 11/ 2017.
Form: Rhyme


A Testament

Cracked dusky humid industrial decay
Perched crows survive death of abandoned Chevrolet
A testament of humanity’s constant change

Premium Member Haiku 72

fir tree
pine cone cluster
squirrels gather
 

ripe apples
decay on ground
wasp paradise

spring
change of color
rabbits fur
Form: Haiku

Nullity

I am all subject to decay
For I am but clay.
Subdued by death,
I return to the earth.
I am a conscript;
A divine script
On time's throne.
Form:

Dysfunctional

rubble of social dysfunction
spilled from the lip of time
shards of humanity’s decay
sleep in layered mounds
beneath eternity’s cold moraine

forlorn is not the state of flora

a flower's momentum
never interrupts the observer 
both exist in prolonged beauty

only the distracted and distant
note disruption of decay
© Jin-ju Ye  Create an image from this poem.

Salt Rings and Seaweed

Tangled seaweed shore
sharp in salt and sweet decay
Crab claws still clenched shut
in defense of losing prey
Sun, to bleach, is on it's way...
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Lord of the Flies leakers

In battle little boys frantic
Shared their quotes with the Atlantic
So we can all note
About death they’d gloat
And Signal decay gigantic
Form: Limerick

The First Apostle

The decay of corpses is my domain
Abandoned in the dread mountain region
Unrestrainable through fetter and chain
My bread mouldy but my spirit Legion
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Lost Love - Ziket

perfume of your kiss still lingers,
in decay of dreams!

2nd placement
Sponsor Line Gauthier
Written 14/08/2020
“2-line poem- Ziket” poetry contest

Glue

Do as I do...
Who never knew
My wings that flew
Spiraled to you.

Sunlight the day...
With winter's ray
Frostbite thy lips 
Til deaths decay.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Carrion Watchers

Through the mists they land Carried by darkened wings, spread Sensing, they await Suspended death in decay Inhumanities now shared .
Form: Tanka

The Red Beret

The Red Beret 



Molding faith 
Holding the mystery 
Its breath 
Its weight 
Bouquet 
Decline
Decay 



Marckincia Jean
Free verse
05/02/2023

Premium Member Tenebrae

Darkness of the night
Darkness of soul
Demons abroad
Devils roam
Dark dreams
Dread.

Deterioration
Despoliation
Degradation
Destruction
Decay
Death

Premium Member Donut Day

It’s Donut Day in the USA Forget the dieting for today Sugary and sweet And rough on one’s teeth For just one day don’t fret o’er decay.
Form: Limerick

Alton, Mo

surrounded by trees
a trailer lies in decay
the front door tugged by the wind
a home left behind 
littered with animal waste 
shadows seep from doors ajar
Form: Sedoka

Premium Member Thought of the day

both, the ripening fruit and the withering leaf
at the ordained time fall off from the tree
former in fulfilment, latter in decay
which oh hermit, will we be
Form: Rhyme

The Beholder - May He Rest In Peace

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
a wise man once said.

Alas, the beholder of beauty is dead, gone away.
The internet killed him and left him to decay.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Time and Ghostly Shadows

Time And Ghostly Shadows

    rock fence in decay
    lost shepherds and green meadows
    old cars on freeways

    Robert J. Lindley, 4-01-2018
    Haiku
Form: Haiku

Embalming Fluid

You expect progress,
and you, 
understanding,
and I just pray,
that I'm never caught planning,
any life... into an early grave.

Let's not decay,
Let's not decay.

Premium Member S'Age of Wisdom

Mortality
this vessel that
surrounds me
funny
I should grow to love it
just in time
to witness its decay
better late than never
I'm sure the sage would say.

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