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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Categories:
decay, death, history, loss, philosophy, social
Form:
Haiku
Decay
tranquility and I - trampled earth and greens gone astray...
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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
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
City Injuries
City in decay
That's the source of wound.
Does not have a voice....
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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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Categories:
decay, life, perspective, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Trees
Created from decay
Rotting bones and upset skulls
Green drifts forever...
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Categories:
decay, nature,
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?
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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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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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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Categories:
decay, nature
Form:
Haiku
Decay
The summer breeze sweeps
Little petals into flight
Singing songs of death....
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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
Anubis
Anubis, his decision, who has admission
mummification array, slows rot and decay...
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Categories:
decay, animal, god,
Form:
Alexandrine
Mushrooms
The forest digests
rot and decay,
where mushrooms
gladly grow...
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Categories:
decay, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Thought of the day
fear not decay of transient body urn ~
breath by breath celebrate love’s benign burn...
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Categories:
decay, spiritual,
Form:
Couplet
Life Cycle
dry leaves fluttered down-
an acorn sprouts beneath the
molded decay...
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Categories:
decay, life, nature
Form:
Haiku
Withered Rose
smell a soft decay
summer has gracefully died
withered rose on bush...
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Categories:
decay, autumn, nature, rose,
Form:
Haiku
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