#rot poems on Hello Poetry

ilo Jul 2024

i writher in junk
my shoes come pre-broken
and my shirts newly old and yellow

i am a tube within a tube organism
who be really just livin’ off rice and beans
and a lil tony’s
if you know what i mean

why all this effort to curate?
when i can just sit and contemplate
rotting and writhering here
like a big ole chunky maggot

it’s been a while. here’s an exaggerated poem dedicated to my broken shoes and rice and beans

#maggot #junk #curate #rice #beans #rot #contemplate

Jeremy Betts Jun 2024

~•§•~ Behind the Scenes ~•§•~

I hang a mangled backdrop
A set prop
To keep from view
That I got
Behind the scenes rot
And there's a lot

©2024

#mangled #backdrop #set #prop #view #behind #scenes #rot

Jeremy Betts May 2024

~•§•~ A Placeholder ~•§•~

I wasn't bred from good stock
Or birthed with any hope of a shot
Can't imagine that coming as a big shock
Couldn't possibly hide the rot
A thick scar dug into both wrists visually express what verbally I could not
Flesh color replaced the black rorschach ink blot
To clarify, a stark reminder was all I got
KO'd after a turned cheek an awful lot
Like knock knock
Who's there?
Just a nobody,
A lowly placeholder of a single census spot

©2024

#bred #good #bad #stock #shock #imagine #hide #rot #reminder #simple

Nickols Jan 2024

The moments with you.

There was the time before you. When I was free in my endeavor's.

Then the time during you. When everything became unfathomable. And I wanted to spend every waking moment with you.

Then there was the time after you. When? It does not matter, because you are gone.

And I am done.

#sad #love #breakup #time #moments #rot

Stand in the rain Jan 2024

Haunted

I’m haunted by the demons that lurk in my mind, they scream foul words my way. From the pits of hell they’ve clawed their way out, I’m left alone to fend myself, yet I grow weary of the hell I’m in, and endless loop, overcome with grief I sink into my own rot. An endless cycle with no hope in sight, distraught is such a pretty word to describe this vicious cycle of self hatred and hurt.

How little light do I see, flickering in and out of existence. I am nothing but a speck of dust on this earthly plane, I grow tired, I am becoming undone.

Dreaming every night of something, anything, yield my weary soul for she’s tired and ready to become undone.

#agony #grief #dreamless #rot

Jeremy Betts Dec 2023

~•§•~ You and I ~•§•~

~••~••~••~
You
Attack my every thought
You're
Another voice in my head that taunts
You'll
Label me an idiot savant
Not a debutant to this type of rot
~••~••~••~
I
Have nothing you would want
I've
Suffered through a ghoulish plot
I'll
Do things that you should not
Feel fear haunt every thought
~••~••~••~

©2023

#want #gruesome #fear #thoughts #voices #taunting #idiot #savant #debutant #rot

KHY Oct 2023

divide

The peace inside me is cracking blue

the hatred of men and the loathing of women
***** lonely tombstones from coast to coast

and I can't help but think
our violets are rotting at the root

#violet #violets #men #women #loathing #tombstones #rot #divide

lua Oct 2022

wavebreaker

i am a wavebreaker
i am a bloated body drifting in the ocean
i stop boats in their paths
for wealthy tourists to gawk
and ask me
where im from, where im headed, where ive been
but i only reply in silence
and bubbles that escape my lips

i am a wavebreaker
i cut through the waves like a blade to the neck
i rot and i burst
and i spread the remnants of myself across the world
to be remembered
to be known
to let them know of my remains
that i remain

i am a wavebreaker
i break the waves caused
by those wanting to wreck cities
i am what goes against the current
i am what stays when everything rushes past me

i am a wavebreaker.

#wave #water #wavebreaker #death #dead #remains #stay #current #ocean #rot