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Arabic toffeeMy face is lighted like coffee
My breath is as fresh as Scottish cake
Now when you look at me
I look like A Scottish Drape
Do you believe in rape!...
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Categories:
addiction, age, allah, angst,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Modern KnightPeople Rarely see you protect us from the gangs
the killers of the innocent
People Rarely see you protect us from the drugs
the dealers or the pusher scum
People Rarely talk of the accidents and...
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Categories:
addiction, blessing, dedication, encouraging,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Twisted loveI keep trying even if I might fail
Another pull, now let me exhale
I keep saying I'm fine but I'm lying
I just dont want you to worry
I got to take my feelings...
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Categories:
addiction, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
SocietyWe keep covering our faces with masks because we dont want to risk getting infected by inhalation
But we keep contaminating our lungs daily by inhaling that tobacco smoke from cigarettes
We wash our hands...
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Categories:
addiction, faith, perspective, poems,
Form: Free verse
Salt Review
Households have used salt for many a year,
On dinner tables there has been a space
For salt and pepper, the purpose is clear,
Reached for upon the completion of Grace.
On dinner tables there has been a space
Those...
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Categories:
addiction, food, health, house,
Form: Pantoum
A L C O H O L I S MAll of the popular kids are invited to party
Laughter abounds as they get inebriated
Chortles and giggles, making less sense every hour
Outrageous behaviors run rampant, to prove they are drunk
He starts to get irritated with...
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Categories:
addiction, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Acrostic
POETRY IN MEPOETRY IN ME
Don’t come to my world
Its milk and honey
Are that of excreted inks
A world where
Lines are made into walls
Out of a dancing pen
A world where
Her neighboring villages
Are called stanzas
And her clans
Known for words
A...
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Categories:
addiction, desire,
Form: Classicism
His Love For StormHe laid next to her, incognizant and numb.
His skin once blanche white and smooth, now almost mustard color.
Sickle shape impressions were on his cheeks and chin, an obvious telling sign of the effects of the...
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Categories:
addiction,
Form: Narrative
Storm's AbeyanceIt was a righteous hit and the silky smooth euphoric familiar feeling was racing through her veins to her encephalon.
It was an energetic stimulation to her central nervous system.
Her whole body fell back onto the...
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Categories:
addiction,
Form: Narrative
First love my last love mango'sMango's
When I first saw you from my backyard
The first time I planted a Mango seed
That eye contact I still remember,
A nine-year-old boy with heavy luggage,
I smiled for your dangerous dog,
Your family remained as sweet as...
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Categories:
addiction, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Personal ServicesAfter doors close after hours
when scarlet neon flickers out
redlight nights fill voids of need
my body is a ripped flower
my throat tingles to the burn of vodka-fire
Gleaning the gleaming water-washed street
for an...
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Categories:
addiction, business, lust,
Form: Free verse
This DiseaseIt began by taking my heart
attacking my immunity
warming me up as hot as fever
leaving it broken in disunity.
It traveled on, to my mind
destroying on its course through me
my veins lay broken and sad, alone
but my...
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Categories:
10th grade, abuse, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
JinnJinn are men who sleep like logs at night
And give me a thunderous fright
I love you my snow man Android
You remind me of
Rainbow Bright,does any one get my point???...
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Categories:
addiction, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Verse
Sad Truth2/19/21
Among the dirt and grass
Near and far from curving paths
It's proven, I don't need to determine that
Many once thought, the Earth was flat
People so quick to judge and be the first to laugh
Events happened slowly...
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Categories:
addiction, dark, deep, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Petal on the RoseWhen all else went to hell
And even he thought, he was too far gone
She found hope in desperation and she promised
She’d keep hanging on
What she sees in him he doesn’t know
Cause...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, blessing, death,
Form: Lyric
Specific Types of Addiction Poems
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