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Addiction Abc Poems

These Addiction Abc poems are examples of Abc poems about Addiction. These are the best examples of Abc Addiction poems written by international poets.


a yellow silk scarf
A Yellow silk scarf
He bought a yellow silk scarf at a second-hand shop
In Cheshire, the type actors were, when meeting for
A drinks party; the mirror...

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Categories: absence, abuse, addiction,



they kill children
They kill, children 

A hum of silence met me
Dead babies everywhere like dolls on the filthy carpet
a lone soldier guarded the ghastly scene
looked stunned and...

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Categories: abortion, abuse, addiction, adventure,

a misfit in Liverpool
A misfit in Liverpool
I think of oranges when I see a painting by Constable of a morning sun
that looked like blood orange dripping nectar down...

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Categories: absence, addiction, age, america,

god and austerity
God and Austerity
The supermarket that calls itself Forum,
 has a bell tower, but now, in time of
 austerity, no one flocks to buy anything
 when...

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Categories: addiction, art, bereavement, books,

the dancer
The Dancer

At fifteen, he was a dancer with a  slim body
and narrow hips, after school he walked to 
the dance studio where he was welcome
and danced...

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Categories: abuse, addiction, age, april,



love they say
Love, they say 


When I was fifty-two, I fell in love and that
was hard; I lost my sanity for the sake of love
I had been married...

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Categories: addiction, age, allusion,

Jesus killers
Jesus's killers
I looked up the Wikipedia to see if a man I had
known for thirty years but never met was there. Do
not exist, was the...

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Categories: abortion, addiction, anger, beautiful,

Patrick Chaves
Agent Patrick Chaves 

in the beginning of this month, I was contacted by 
family relation telling me of a quick way to make 
some extra...

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Categories: absence, addiction, allusion,

how it is done
A very rich man, not the one who springs to mind
likes to leave behind as many children as he can 
Clearly, it would be wrong...

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Categories: absence, abuse, addiction, april,

soldiers women
The applause
I had a drink before going to a poetry reading
 since I was nervous
drank a few whiskeys and spoke dramatically about the plight of...

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Categories: absence, addiction, age,

we had it coming
we had it coming
looking at pictures of an empty Piccadilly Circus
or the Eifel Tower in Paris is empty of life except
for police cars cruising to...

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Categories: abortion, absence, abuse, addiction,

Greenland's American future
Greenland’s American future

In Nuuk everybody lives in festive houses made of wood, green, blue and red looks homily in the winter landscape
Thei are the people...

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Categories: absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,

the women in our life
Women I our life
n the line	
The cashier talks to another woman
They are both about forty
The age when women are the 
Most handsome
And they know
So much...

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Categories: absence, addiction, i love

Nepal
Nepal
Nepal I know little of this country, nestling
Among colossal mountains
It used to be a kingdom, but the king was so
Autocratic that he lost the job.
Later...

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Categories: absence, addiction, allusion, anger,

the rich and my English brother
My English Brother and the Rich
I find it impossible to be envious of the wealthy, buying superyachts one bigger than the other, when they get...

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Categories: absence, abuse, addiction,


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