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Best Rotten Poems

Below are the all-time best Rotten poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rotten poems written by PoetrySoup members


Lumpy Rumpy and the Rotten Egg Gas
Lumpy Rumpy, now a high school lad,
I'm afraid is still acting very bad,
In his school laboratory he did amass,
Some stinking, self-made, rotten egg gas.

He corked...

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Categories: rotten, children, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Rotten To the Core
9/15/16


Across the lands and shores

Plants and spores

So much life in different shapes and forms

Many storms cold or warm



Always been an omnivore

So I eat vegetables like...

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Categories: rotten, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rotten Relationship
Dan was having a passionate affair
told his wife he’s going to leave her
She said she’d never give him a divorce….
he thwacked her with a meat...

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Categories: rotten, conflict, dark, murder, violence,
Form: Quatrain




Beautifully Rotten
I cradle and rock him,
He's so fragile a thing in my arms,
So perfect, so innocent,
So unlike his mother.
His mother was broken and wicked,
A being rotten...

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Categories: rotten, dark, death, humanity, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Rotten Orange
There’s this
Rotten orange smell
I can’t see the orange, mind you
But it’s somewhere behind
The television screen
I know because
We smell it
We know it is there
Always
I cannot breathe...

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Categories: rotten, america, funny, metaphor, political,
Form: Free verse
The Rotten
Analysis read—and wronged—and pulled
Lulled into our idealistic mess
Words no longer ours but hung distress
Farced in carnality—they are ruled

Soundness remains what we will believe 
And all...

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Categories: rotten, absence, abuse, adventure, analogy,
Form: Rhyme



Cutting the Cheese - Something's Rotten In Wisconsin
In the land of Cheeseheads, there came a call
Saying I’m a big donor, best of them all;
Just give me the scoop,
Some real union poop;
Oh Governor,...

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© Deb Radke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rotten, funny, political,
Form: Limerick
The Story of One Rotten Potato
It starts with one box
Full of good potatoes
Judging from inside out
You have good potatoes here

Slime simpering smell 

Drifting in from nowhere
Perhaps is just a heat
Supposedly...

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Categories: rotten, africa, people, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain
Spoiled Rotten
There was once a widow who had nothing but her beloved twin babies, Rosemary, and Ethan. The Widow loved her twins more than the Earth...

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© Bo Vigoren  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rotten, abuse, allusion, baby, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
A Rotten Apple
littering wickedness forgotten his propriety
A man who is a rotten apple for a society
can harm the peace and harmony around
leaving the polluted symphony profound
The world...

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© Deepak A.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rotten, child, children, hurt, peace,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Rotten Cold
How can a virus make you feel so bad?
Bought all the potions the pharmacist had
My nose is red
Staying in bed
Using sick time being sick- makes...

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Categories: rotten, health,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
dirty rotten men
scoundrels robbing rich pay poor
dressing rather smug...

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Categories: rotten, funny,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Rotten
rotten apple
splats 'pon ground....
firm apple rolls  ...

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Categories: rotten, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Spoiled Rotten
Go on, spoil me rotten
Wrap me in wooly cotton
Enroll me in a class
Where I’m taught the art of grass.
Like your food I always ate
Life is...

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Categories: rotten, addiction, anger, growing up,
Form: Lyric
Rotten Potato
Rotten potato
In a sealed bag to be sold
Shaped differently with a smell
To become potato chips to be fried 

Rotten potato
Destined to be peeled
With strange deformities
To...

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Categories: rotten, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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