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It Could Help But Is SelfishGone today
Because the waves were leaving
The sound of my footsteps pressed in sand
A pink sky
What’s behind me is never seen again
Becoming detached diving in
Maybe it’s time
I can’t see my body
Not a dream or nightmare
“Tell me,...
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Categories:
addiction, confusion, destiny, hope,
Form: Free verse
Lapsed contra dancer rediscovers his happy placeLapsed contra dancer rediscovers his happy place
I tip figurative hat to the late Cathy Robertson, longtime (lifetime) Thomas Paine Unitarian Church member, who unwittingly and quite casually made mention of contra dancing, which inopportunely, inextricably,...
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Categories:
12th grade, addiction, adventure,
Form: Free verse
I Quit!Snowflakes falling light but steady
Watching them, I feel like I am ready
Contemplating, as I slowly inhale
I know this will become a story to tell
I have an addiction, don't you see?
I am quitting these that are...
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Categories:
addiction, anxiety, courage, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Prodigal sheepJesus, you say bring home my sheep
You say be a shepherd like perfect You
I say my sheep have gone prodigal
They have my credit card, I say resigned
At least they buy cheap wine on my dime
They’ve...
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Categories:
addiction, depression, drug, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
DEPTH OF RECOVERYDEPTH OF RECOVERY
From the top of the den
I bring my humblest words
To raise you slowly out
And above this dreadful pit
Where the ladder I lowers
Is insufficient emphasis
As ascending tears
Labor my heart helpless
With...
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Categories:
addiction,
Form: Free verse
Bettersweet RomanceHe yelled at me in Ewe, my friend.
I asked him to calm down.
Such an accent, powerful and forceful,
It fired me up, igniting a desire:
Passionate love with him, that's my aim.
For this, he'll need a bouquet...
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Categories:
addiction, betrayal, birth, break
Form: I do not know?
MedicationMedication! By Sammie 2006
A row of bottles on my shelf
Caused me to analyze myself.
One yellow pill I have to pop
Goes to my heart so it won't stop.
A little white one that I take
Goes...
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Categories:
addiction,
Form: Rhyme
The pain for what gainI can be your doctor the pills won’t hurt
Take a couple baby or you’ll get worse
I am the medicine queen come and hit me up
I was only 13 getting called that in the traphouse...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, anxiety, death,
Form: Free verse
Deep blue denialLust,
the phantom hand
that clipped our wings,
cracks a smile
as we tumble
like raindrops
cascading through
blankets of nimbostratus clouds,
exiled to this rugged
stone laden labyrinth
We were soaring eagles
galloping across the horizon,
banished to sprawl
these tainted soils
as vermin,
severed from our
celestial fountainhead
We are...
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Categories:
addiction, christian, god, innocence,
Form: Free verse
I've started wearing a wig in the carIt's thrilling
But so is this poem
I want to take up a most profound authority
Throughout the neighbourhood
A village pastor
And various pursuits of a similar kind
Give me my own planet
My own earf
Postmodernist scumbag
And cowboys from hell days
I...
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Categories:
addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
PARASITEIt’s a parasite’s world.
The worm of laziness
Clogging the mind,
Ego refusing change.
It’s a parasite’s world,
Seeping through one’s blood and breath.
Adoption, adaptation to change, an uphill task.
Ignorance, dark, deep, masquerading ugliness.
It’s a parasite’s world---
Where dependence is...
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Categories:
addiction,
Form: Free verse
Sister in the CloudsSister In The Clouds
I warned you about the alley filled with snakes and waste.
I told you not to walk it, I told you not to turn down that passageway.
You were meant for more, you were...
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Categories:
addiction, angel, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Bye Bye Fat MeI can’t believe it’s really me
Waist to head, I’m a Christmas tree
From this fat, I’ll never be free
A healthy life I’ll never see
I gained a little here and there
And now the people seem to stare
This...
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Categories:
addiction, body, change, food,
Form: Sonnet
The night takes youLouder and louder - becoming inaudible
Neck
Neck
Stick it out long
Flash Flash
Images distilled, frozen and framed
Drinks flying
Clothes torn and lost
Crowds getting bigger
Wanting the floor and this spotlight
It's...
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Categories:
addiction, allusion,
Form: I do not know?
UnchartedCould have wished, would have shown me earlier,
If it weren't only for the tranquil color,
Covering energy, wasted serene past finally dissipated,
Uncomfortable in others' comfort, glossy sight surroundings,
Reexamining this position wasn't all it was cut out...
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Categories:
absence, addiction, adventure, art,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Addiction Poems
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