#rot poems on Hello Poetry

Jeremy Betts Sep 2024

She advertised everything I wanted
Upon purchase it was nothing I needed
If only there was more time allotted
The warning signs could've been heeded
With the foundation now rotted
I'm reseated all alone and resented
Not fully unexpected,
But fully defeated
Deflated and almost deleted
Then the process gets repeated

©2024

#rehearsed #wanted #needed #warnings #heeded #signs #rot #resented #unexpected #deflated

neth jones Aug 2024

. . . . . . . b i b b l e

they prayed for rain                  (so tired   so drained)
they wanted relief   crops    and to relive
                   through their supporting bulbous god
the rains came    and my body tightened with itch
                                  the chored limbs ached
flints of pain   ticked behind the eyes
but there was so much rain            and there was flooding
cause there were no trees   to root everything together
no absorption
but much concrete to dictate the fast flow
and then it rained like blood  and people freaked
(it was only desert pigment or algae)     and then it rained fish
but there was too much to harvest  pickle and eat
                                    and spoil brought stench and plenty of flies
and then it rained frogs   that weren't able to polish off the flies
          cause they'd splattered with the impact
and then...
the praying stopped   and the people plugged up their senses
and retreated indoors all puffed
                                 and angry and pathetic
and i went out for a walk
          solitary   except for the thriving carrion

#silly #rain #blood #fish #frogs #rot #prayer

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