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Best Addiction Poems

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


Premium Member Alice Sweet Alice
~Alice Sweet Alice~

        *Like Sisters*
   Everyday -- Holding Hands 
Sunday Dress -- Pink Ribbons
  ...

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Categories: abuse, addiction, anger, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Plagiarizing
"Mine all Mine!"

A thief I long to be
Your eyes original like the moon and sea

A lover in the world............
An Anthology, you walk and talk like...

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Categories: addiction, beauty, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cup of Empty
She pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams

Moonbeams...

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Categories: addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form: Quatrain
Her Masterpiece Is Her Story
Her paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.

One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...

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Categories: abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Midnight Poet
Whisper's of October  

Whispers in this soup bowl
20 minutes after its muse explodes,
Daylight remains nothing more than a dream 
Warding off the howling sound...

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Categories: addiction, character, devotion, identity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sweet Sugar Cookies and Peanut Butter Bars
"I dream of Candy!"

Sweet cakes and peanut butter squares 
A living diabetic's nightmare. --  My heart 
sings to the beat, Under the Neutron Star...

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Categories: addiction, candy, fantasy, funny,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Wordaholic
I want conversations 
with writers and poets
The wise the wacky 
the dark and the stoic 
I need to drink your words
I fear my disease is...

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Categories: addiction, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Cocaine Is Her Name
COCAINE Is Her Name  ( Addiction )

COCAINE is her name. They call her COKE for short.
She came into this Country, without a Passport.
Since then...

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Categories: addiction,
Form: Free verse
Nightmares and Razor Blades
I stare at my ceiling,
I start to wonder, why am I not healing?
Then it dawns on me,
The nightmare clip starts to roll.
I shake and shiver...

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Categories: addiction, anger, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Superstar
The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Plethora of Poetry
~STRIP TEASE~     Featuring:) SKAT

Silver Skimpy Ink, String, A POET DESTROYER's bling, bling
Think of me as a human ditty delicious decoration,
Something along...

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Categories: addiction, adventure, beauty, passion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Gravitational Pull
Today I feel the pull
of gravity
on the depth of my depravity
There within that cavity 
resides my anxiety
It seeps out of my porosity 
feeding the insanity

I...

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Categories: abuse, addiction, angst, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Welcome To My World -The Cost of Happiness-
~TAKE MY MONEY ~

Crimson Joy, L'Oreal Lips, DOLCE & GABBANA eyewear 
Mascara from beyond LONDON Bridges
Like the pretty face found in front of Vanity Fair
What...

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Categories: abuse, addiction, adventure, clothes,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Choice
A vulture and owl
                     ...

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Categories: addiction,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Never Never Land
Sad broken boy
When will you become a man
You try flying high
wishing you were Peter Pan
But you don’t understand 
the stuff you’re putting in your veins
...

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Categories: addiction,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs