Abstained Poems - Poems about Abstained

...Mana David J Walker As we too Fail to Live forever On this earth And seek Safe Harbor Of new birth A penance paid For what It’s worth Regrets displayed Abstained in dearth ......Read the rest...

... It was the hurt that made him good, from beginning to end as all things should. It was his loss that made him great, and from his pain, kindness escaped. It was a hole inside that made him ......Read the rest...

...Blame … deep and abiding Praise … a fleeting call Infliction kills affection shills Their contrast casts a pall One … a timeless burden The other … flits away Tomorrow’s pain all j......Read the rest...

...The evening of November first Brought forth a gentle rain For autumn sought to slake its thirst While October had abstained How fair to spare the children That they might prowl the night And ......Read the rest...

...Today dismayed as skies sag gray sad clouds complain it rained- I abstained!......Read the rest...

...Stepin' in I look around... inquisitively I'm coached, all eyes piercing yet no sound... it is all-new then I am approached not sure how long I've been detained only now I'm no-longer a s......Read the rest...

...La Fée Verte, Mistress of Wormwood, High Consort of la Belle Époque, Shimmering with joie de vivre. She’s holding court with bohemian charm, All haute couture with feathers and furs, Promising ......Read the rest...

...They say he is a loser, with his finger cut off, A politician in name, a president so soft. His people call him "nine-fingered Lula", An image of a man with much to prove, much to suffer. He ab......Read the rest...

... I’ll try my hand at every kind of rhyme; I find that they can help to prime the mind. Though oft when I should have abstained, I’ve tried, and ended up, knots in my brain, tongue-tie......Read the rest...

...Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches After an amigo accosted after an argument And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing, Because blackening bruises betrayed blather Berniccio b......Read the rest...

...The limerick, below, may miss the mark. I have abstained for too long: There was a poet named Hero Who went from tops to zero She thought about war, greed, our lies Blamed humans, not God above......Read the rest...

...Humanity, humanity; Why? You suffer from lack of apathy; It’s an increasing deterrent; Can’t you see, can’t you see; Humanity, O’ humanity; You hate me, I hate you; What do you think God w......Read the rest...

...Take a pot, heat it hot. Scratch it dry. Scrape up any brown, dry left-over bits. Check the sides as well. Sniff the seance of conjured smells. Imbibe the well-up of wafting aromas. OK, now, dr......Read the rest...

...He asked the world to see his plight. They came from the left to proclaim him right. So, he took to the streets and tore up the night. Feeling no shame, with others to blame; Driven with hate, ......Read the rest...

...The man I am is the man I made, Inventing, reinventing all through the loss and the gain, The joy, the fun the cry and the pain, In my was and now, the loss I learn, appreciating the gain. On a......Read the rest...