Best Compulsive Poems
Below are the all-time best Compulsive poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of compulsive poems written by PoetrySoup members
Obsessive Compulsive Poetinsomnia 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
Infatuated Love LimerenceLost 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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Categories:
compulsive, desire, love, romance,
Form:
Free verse
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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Categories:
compulsive, anxiety, care, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
You and I and I and YouYou, 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 NightmareLove 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 DayImpulsive 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
Forked TonguesWhen 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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Categories:
compulsive, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
Lowlife FreakShe 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 NightmareRecently, 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
Categories:
compulsive, how i feel, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Lies Awake SchemingPretense 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
When Doves CryRain 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
Excessive CompulsionAnd 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 Blessingsonce 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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Categories:
compulsive, memory, remember, tribute,
Form:
Free verse