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Best Compulsive Poems

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Obsessive Compulsive Poet
insomnia night after night 
restlessness tense & disturbed
lying awake the mind modifies
mutates
preceding delusional dreams
consciousness remains alert 
creative and mindful words emerge
falling like puzzle pieces 
perfectly...

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Categories: compulsive, addiction, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Infatuated Love Limerence
Lost in your elegance,
if only time could stand still
to capture this memory eternally.

Reflection of the moon shimmers
upon tranquil waters
in congregation with the stars,
as we sail...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compulsive, desire, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member OCD Overdrive collaboration with Ink Empress

Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries,
nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind.
Trembling hands and gritted...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compulsive, anxiety, care, mental health,
Form: Free verse
You and I and I and You
You, who are so perfect in my eyes, so beautiful- adorable, and I, so flawed, ugly, damaged and crawling with defects; why do you enjoy...

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Categories: compulsive, anger, beautiful, corruption, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Cheesecake Nightmare
Love me or hate me
few people can take me
plain, unadulterated, true to myself
their compulsive need to gussy me up
or completely disguise me
gives me nightmares...
Horrible- horrible!

The...

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Categories: compulsive, food, humor, humorous, silly,
Form: Free verse



I Saw You Amongst the Wild Horses -Part 2-
But you—the wild one
You were compulsive, fiery and inventive
I had my share of the wild and free
But you were molded from them—with insane beauty
Despite our...

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Categories: compulsive, allegory, analogy, animal, beautiful,
Form: Ode
Not Another Day
Impulsive or compulsive

Either way it's not conducive

Living with this disorder

Can't be good for my liver

Obsessions, when do they stop?

Compulsions, when do I stop?

Let me illustrate...

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Categories: compulsive, anger, angst, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forked Tongues
When someone lies to me, sometimes it's difficult not to turn and walk away. I think they do it because of one of two reasons....

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compulsive, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lowlife Freak
She holds my hand like I’d never
wake up after passing -out and drinking
one last lick from a broken bottle, only to
find myself needing another round...

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Categories: compulsive, angst, recovery from, self,
Form: Prose Poetry
Coronavirus a Germaphobe's Nightmare
Recently, my ears have heard
Some news that sounds quite absurd
My eyes can’t believe what they have seen
Is this for real, an outright global panic
Regarding the...

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Categories: compulsive, humorous, stress, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wild Nature
WILD NATURE

         Far from squabble of snobbish sniffy people
        ...

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Categories: compulsive, how i feel, nature,
Form: Free verse
Lies Awake Scheming
Pretense blinks unthinkingly
prominent neon sign
Promoting delicious wishes
heady aspirations primed

Porous ears absorb spiel
Charmed python entrancing rises
Web weaving traitor traps
victim with outlandish surprises

Silkily wrapped casualty constrained
unsuspecting pawn...

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Categories: compulsive, corruption, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Doves Cry
Rain pours down over the hills, like God’s tears
Jewels peppering petals, impulsive
Lightening rages in skies, bleeding fears
Wonders so amazing they’re compulsive

Jewels peppering petals, impulsive
Skating along...

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Categories: compulsive, eulogy,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Excessive Compulsion
And her voice is the tingle of upbeat blues, 
the winsome rap amid my heavy footsteps, past 2 am...
She holds my hand as I’d never...

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Categories: compulsive, caregiving, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Treasure the Pleasure of God's Blessings
once i had footprints as tattoos
the art was tasteless
the seed was a hateful hoax

once i had phlegm laced spit in every hair follicle
the gleam was...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compulsive, memory, remember, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs