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Best Poems about decay (443)

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Under the Roof by Noah · 10 ♥

A Roman's Chamber by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 9 ♥

Sonnet 64 by William Shakespeare · 9 ♥

Orange Dust by elsvora · 8 ♥

Root Cellar by Recei · 8 ♥

"The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete." by Walt Whitman · 7 ♥

Sonnet 13 by William Shakespeare · 5 ♥

A Dead Rose by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 5 ♥

The Dismantled Ship by Walt Whitman · 5 ♥

THE VULTURES by Alexander Search · 4 ♥

The box came open and the smell— by mnzan · 3 ♥

Song by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 3 ♥

The humidity a heavy coat by Ash · 2 ♥

Hard Water by anxiousmove · 2 ♥

Controlled Rot by pnt_fain · 1 ♥

Unsticking by nomasai · 1 ♥

Down Below by nearfrank · 1 ♥

Cancelled Passage (from The Sensitive Plant) by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1 ♥

He said galvanized means permanent by Caleb Madden

Under the Flicker of Forgotten Fluorescents by Merit Noble

Brittle Weave of Forgotten Things by Merit Noble

The Gate That Forgot to Close by Merit Noble

The Fence That Bled Rust by Rzluz

A sudden snap— by re7ane

Fraying edges by perimir

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