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Abstention Poems - Poems about Abstention

Ask Not For

...See no water for perspiration,
Ask for flowers, not all the garden.

Light a lamp if ye feel there’s darkness,
Nights are always dark, ask for no Sun.

Blame me, all the evil will I bear, 
But...

Categories: abstention, analogy, conflict,
Form: Ghazal

Democracy of America

...Democracy,....

When we cease
To be a democracy
By extension,
We cease to be a dream
Muffled in the seeds
Of division and muddled
In abstention in acumination
               ------
Only to ...

Categories: abstention, art, cinderella, destiny, endurance,
Form: Narrative

The Invisible Fire

...The promised hope disappointed,
excusing words in denial anointment.
The lover unanswered certainty,
rescued by solidarity.
The call en mass and its hysterity,
common ground fraternity.
The mad...

Categories: abstention, 12th grade, allegory, anxiety,
Form: Ballade

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Onerous Anus Complex Number 2

...cuz poisonous toxins sting like scorpions
severely crimping ability to sit down absorption
radiating throughout every
cell guaranteeing abstention
against hidebound contract, no

ifs, ands, nor...

Categories: abstention, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Release

...AFTER DEATH

Hand out stretched caught my tearsArms out stretched caught my fears
...

Categories: abstention, death, freedom, god, heaven,
Form: Couplet

White Before My Eye

...Within a gentle breeze I move
carrying white before my eye
gliding forth a Canterbury sky

Lions roar and tees get crossed
puffs signal a strength inside
anxious slays abstention lost

Shifts...

Categories: abstention, art, life,
Form: Free verse

Halloween Night

...Halloween Night

Remember the dead on ‘Allhallowtide’ and do not forget the living 
not just for an evening and not for one night as Halloween is for all 
time’s sake for souls and places old and...

Categories: abstention, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Letting Go

...Lingering threat of what was condemning me
Everlasting fear became quite depressing 
Tail spin spun under a dark wing duck
Tiny tunes heard in a ear stood stuck
Interference during after school t...

Categories: abstention, absence, abuse, addiction, childhood,
Form: Free verse

Special K

...SPECIAL K


Devour loneliness
Destroyed being misunderstood
She was eagerly accepted into my fold
Brought in from a harsh winter
Desolation -  wet and cold.

Love likewise abstention
A luck...

Categories: abstention, absence, for her, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse

Progression of a Night Out

...Sobriety
Lucid self-possession.
Clear-headed, composed, steadied
Abstention, temperance; Carouser, lush
Staggering, tottering, gibbering.
Intoxicated high.
Drunkenness...

Categories: abstention, social,
Form: Diamante

Telling the World Off

...I know that'
I shouldn't saying this
But, baby it's a fact
Here I am
Telling the world off
And I shouldn't be
Saying that
      ------
Seems' that, that the thing's
That we do is just an act
But, in ...

Categories: abstention, business, fantasy, satire, world,
Form: Rhyme

The Poetry Soup Convention 2011

...My name is Gary Fields
And I am at the Poetry Convention
Their are a myriad of Poet's
They are all in contention
There are so many that I may
Want to mention'
So, pay attention
Fore they must ...

Categories: abstention, anniversary, on writing and
Form: Narrative

Mona Lisa: Courting Favor, Spurning Patronage?

...Beckoning forward, then muting purpose with placid expression;
Courting favor, but scorning gratuity with nobler accession.
Reconnoitering all, yet countenancing none in stolid derision;
Regaling ...

Categories: abstention, art
Form: I do not know?