ControlI finally found the source to re-gain control in my life
Control against addictions or afflictions even the ethereal
It directly correlatives to the rheostat of my faith
Not just gripping my faith keeping it safely central
Decades of trial and error have come to bear fruit
A new chapter in my life but with an actual binder
Ability to embrace...
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Categories:
addiction, hope,
Form: Couplet
CAT DOG OUCH-
cat hisses at dog
dog retaliates growls at
the fending purring
07/14/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025©
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Categories:
addiction, adventure, anxiety, cat,
Form: Haiku
NECTAR SAVOUR-gentle bee lights feeds
beside me as I am sighting
colorful floral
~
aromatic bud
enters flower and just sucks
the tasty nectar
07/14/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025©
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Categories:
addiction, deep, engagement, food,
Form: Haiku
What doesn’tagree to disagree
At a young age, I started to realize that the only way to make my mom happy was to agree with her.?When you agree, everyone is happy… right??But no.?I was so busy thinking about keeping everyone else happy,?I forgot to ask myself what made me happy.
It wasn’t people.?Wasn’t drugs.?Wasn’t love.?And it damn...
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Categories:
absence, addiction, age, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Kaleidoscopic Chaliceclouds coiling, slithered words
cat-eyes glare, strangest world
burgundy vines style best
metal melodies hurled
from the sky captain's loft —
drained by love, brain birled...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, drink, hurt,
Form: Verse
On Drugs and Alcohol Use7/13/2025
Many people use drugs or alcohol of any type,
to point of ambered, infused, intoxication!
They see it as an innocent past time?
Or, excuse for a deadly, human abrogration.
Yet heavily overused at the most beautiful of
celebrations !
But..I mean nobody, will admit they were ever
caught at times.
In a not so cool participation!
Yet if a drunk...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
9th grade, abuse, addiction,
Form: Haiku
poof and the pain is goneWho takes brain hits diabolic?
The child of an alcoholic!
With the mind’s botox
Pain’s now in a box
Not flummoxed the kid can frolic
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Categories:
addiction, child abuse, children,
Form: Limerick
TrustHow can True trust Faith when lies begin to escape,
You are the reason why I hide my face with a Smile or a Cape,
Because I can't forget what you Took and what you keep Taking,
My Heart keeps on breaking daily, that is why I am Inhaling,
These Drugs I Breath,
I just can't Believe,
Life is full of...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, butterfly, child
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Melancholy ColorThey say blue is the warmest color.
So I fell in love with you.
They say blue is the warmest color.
But it tore my heart in two.
Dangerously Blue.
The waves are crashing down again its true.
Dangerously Blue.
The pleasure and the pain it comes from you.
They say blue is the warmest color.
So I fell in love with...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Lost in a Daze
On Kensington Avenue, many lose their souls
Drugs have consumed them, and they've lost control
They are walking like zombies in search of a high
They need one more 'hit' just to get by
They seem to have passed the point of no return
All hope seems lost, and their bridges burned
They stay...
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Categories:
addiction,
Form: Rhyme
The Boy With The Cardboard HeartWhen you have nobody
you have somebody and
that somebody is
yourself.
Because you’re
all you’ve got.
So why need
anybody?
Anybody being nobody.
Nobody being somebody.
Somebody being anybody.
Somebody. Somebody. Somebody.
Nobody. Nobody. Nobody.
Anybody. Anybody. Anybody.
Does anybody
understand why
the I feel
like a nobody?
Even though
deep down I...
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Categories:
addiction, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Life On The RiverA balance in life can solve the riddle.
To find the balance, start in the middle.
Distractions from the banks may lead us wrong.
Go with the flow where the current is strong.
The banks are sirens calling to our ears,
offering us pleasures relieving fears.
The emotion of love, the fear of pain,
tossing and turning, driving us insane.
Too much...
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Categories:
addiction, adventure, beauty, freedom,
Form: Sonnet
Go Home, HaleyGo Home, Haley
If you could see what I see—
A soul that’s wild, but meant to be
So much more than smoke and flight,
You’d turn your face back toward the light.
Your laughter once lit up the air,
You danced like you belonged nowhere,
But you belonged—you still belong,
Where hearts are weak, but roots are strong.
Your baby’s eyes are growing...
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Categories:
addiction, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: Free verse
l'appel du videA void within me calls
wanting only what I've never had,
but I've always seen.
The taste of a possession so illegal,
It's to die for.
as literal and figurative
as the jaws of the idea itself
surrounding and consuming me.
Oh, I've seen it.
The ecstasy of true bliss
multiplied only their best moments.
The promise of nostalgia
and a feeling of home.
An easiness...
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Categories:
addiction, childhood, death, environment,
Form: Free verse
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