Short Get Worse Poems

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Premium Member My hunches are rarely wrong

I have a bad feeling.
It’ll get worse before it gets better.
I’m braced for the worst.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other


Sex Change

There was a gigolo who swallowed a bee
It pained him from stomach to knee.
But with a shout and curse
He saw things get worse.
It buzzed him from a he to a she.
Form: Limerick

To a Friend "when It Cant Get Worse"

and as a tear falls from the eye
never is the last goodbye
as open hearts fold closed at last
remember always happy past
'till tomorrow sun has risen
all is well
all is forgiven
Form:

Premium Member Happy Was Allowed

It's the tip of the iceberg we're seeing now Probably will get worse before better somehow There's happy ahead Somebody said I'm the happiest dude since happy was allowed
Form: Limerick

Premium Member What Lies Ahead

When you worry 
    about what 
      never was

  When you think
    it can’t get worse
      then it does

  Focus instead 
    on what lies ahead

  So due to worry
    you don’t end up dead
Form: Rhyme


Joy Will Be Yours

J-oy will be yours again, 
A-fter the night so lonely; 
N-ew dawn has broken, 
E-arly second of February.

A-im at the morning light, 
Y-our day won't get worse; 
A-s you welcome the beacon, 
A-nother joy will be
Y-ours.
Form: Acrostic

Paint It Grey

Things can get better,
but they can always get worse,
things can be good,
but they can always get better.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full,
or if the glass is half empty,
it's what's inside the glass,
that merits debate.
© Joe Fisher  Create an image from this poem.

Rely On Me

A shot in the dark.
Alone in the world.
No one to talk to
And no one to hold.
So blame everyone

For your bad life.
See how that goes.
You won't get far.
It will get worse.

Happiness
begins when
you rely

On the
One, true

God

The Beginning of the End

It's so hard,
Knowing that it won't get better.
It's only going to get worse.
I know what's coming
And there is nothing
That I can do to stop it.
I tried to tell them it won't be easy,
But they aren't ready to hear it.
And it breaks my heart.
I have to watch another loved one
Die

I Wish

I wish I could just explain
I wish I remembered everything
I wish time stopped 
I wish I had a plan
I wish everybody could get along
I wish I weren’t limited
I wish fear didn’t bother me
I wish half the things mattered
I wish it didn’t get worse
I wish I knew how to tell you

Premium Member Steppin' Off

Steppin’ Off My Platform I Will Miss you, It’s only so long And not a swan song I have projects awaiting They need some attention An untenable encumbrance Far too many to mention So I’ll be takin’ time out Or bound to get worse September First Steppin’ off
© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Shape

Lover

My lover comes first even if I found other

men's Numbers in your purse

Girl if you hurt, I'll be your nurse even if 

it get worse, I will still put you first 

even if my heart burst, girl you are sweeter 

than cotton candy but sour than a struaburst 

Girl my last verse, Always put you first

Premium Member It could be Arsenic

innoxious odor
faintly fishy
I think of salmon I say

it could be arsenic
this was thrown out by dour Debby Downer
we always get worse scenarios from her

it reminds me of catfish
my upbeat-mother-in-law says,
trying to salvage the family meal.
it is not our fault her other son married Debby Downer

Hopeless

The hope is gone, 
Nothing to hold on to anymore,
Though that sounds wrong.
Things can only get worse from here,
This downward slope,
Something to be feared,
Something that I dread, 
It’s the poison inside your head,
That’s making you lose me, 
Forget us,
Forget yourself,
But remember this,
I love you..
If nothing else.

Live For Now, Die Forever

Yes, your gonna die,
yes, maybe you'll be alright,
yes, it will get worse,
yes, your gonna have to fight.

Who knows, see how it goes,
but yes, you should be scared,
just hope that when the time comes,
you'll be better prepared.

Maybe this is it,
maybe there is more,
but if this is all,
what could this have possibly been for.
© Joe Fisher  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Things

Do things get worse before they get better? I know, I know, I know....Things get worse, then worser still. You glimpse sunshine, but no, it’s just your medication.  Then things get worse, worse, worser, worst, before finally leveling off. And that’s the new norm. And things are better, because they could be worse.  And the answer is B. Detroit

Hell's Waiting Room

Waiting
Waiting again
Some things never change
They get worse with age
Do they enjoy being
The center of attention?
That goes without saying
Doesn't it?
They may feign embarrassment
Blush and smile
Might even apologize --
No, really?
It's all a game to them
They're stuck in childhood
No matter
There may be a hell in their future
A hell with a Waiting Room

Premium Member Going for Gold

Consecutive days,
yes, that’s what I seek.
Twenty in a row:
that’s nearly three weeks.

Just keep it alive,
you’ll groove it, I’m told.
But here’s what I know:
it’s just getting old.

The same could be said
for writing a verse.
Try hard though you may,
your efforts get worse.

Made it to twenty;
its gold for the win.
Rowing tomorrow?
Nah, I’m sleeping in!
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Never Or Forever

People are the same 
Equations between them change 
Situations are the one to blame 

Time passes by 
things get worse 
Promises made for staying forever 
Don't last anymore 

Everything could be alright
 If you would let it go by letting the e-go,
then everything would be alright 

The distance wouldn't matter no long all that would,will be 
The love for one another

childhood

was it really that big of a deal
if we were both just kids
our minds snapped shut like lids
brainwashed by whats bad and good
too scared to come out with the truth
nothing ever came smooth
these thoughts
these anxieties
they only get worse
i needed someone to soothe me
im just a little girl
please stop touching me like that
i dont like it
im tired of playing this game

Premium Member Obnoxious

Some people never change
They just get worse with age
Rude, obnoxious and shrew
Mean words are always spewed

Landing like daggers in your flesh
Leaving many cuts that enmesh 
Often feels so hurtful and surreal 
Being around them is not ideal

Avoiding them can be adverse
They may haunt you like a curse
Ironically life would not be the same
If they were able to stop and refrain
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Answer Depends

    Why do some believe it’ll get better
       while others are sure it’ll get worse

     Why do some take wild chances
       while others sit out the big dances

     Why do some sock it away
       while others live for today

     Why do some sit and think
        while others resort to drink

     The answer, my friend, will depend
        on what you discover in the end
Form: Couplet

There's Always a But

I want recovery,
but I also want to get worse.
I want to have bravery,
but I don't have it of course.

I want to get better,
but I also want to be destroyed.
I want to do this together,
but I guess I like being toyed.

I guess I don't really know what I want,
I never really do.
I am being haunted,
I never really knew.

I like this,
but I like that.
It feels like bliss,
but it also feels like a combat.
© Ana Jusino  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Betting On the Worst

Laying here on my bed thinking how it could have been,
Makes me wonder why did it have to end?

The talking has ended,
The meetings have concluded,
I feel so excluded.

I want back in your life,
But your not willing to take that sacrifice,
I have rolled my final dice.

There is no more point for me on this earth,
But to live through the worst,
Betting on my last remorse,
To find that it would just get worse.

Voices of Man

Voices of man,
always we hear
and we listen.

We heed to man and
to what our great
leaders have to say.

For almost 2,000
years another man
has been pleading

with us to do
right, God's word
says, its better

to listen to
God than man,
but we refuse,

our way is
better than
God's, we think.

So our trouble
will get worse,
until we heed,

to God's voice,
and not,
voices of man.

wrote 8-4-08

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