Best Abstention Poems

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 do this
In abstention

At my table there are three
Their are four including me

The second...

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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 new however haunted or not

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

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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 time
Neglecting to see who payed for his crime 
Greatly loved regardless to say 
 
Genuinely missed...

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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 commoners, but transcending all menial patronization.

Subtle smile endears, but spurns all gratification;
Distant stare, onerous repression or dark depression?
All encompassing view, mistrusting miser or...

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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
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Only to wimpier without a sound
Which echoes to the name...

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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 lucky spontaneous introduction
No friendship – nothing so false
Glass shards and a detruding splinter
The faithfully real make a decision

A brand new connection accompanies...

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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 in fragrant fumes ferry
crimson tales filter through light
as pure visions come to sight

Rest weary pilgrim rest...

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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 ask not what might wake my demon.

In matters ‘tween you and almighty,
Ask...

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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 but tucks
whereby mood linkedin
to nihilistic abstraction
particularly as quasi pincers jabbed
like sharp serrated knives acceleration

guaranteed, where bum rapped cheekily
prospective hemorrhoids increased accentuation
pro bono (cher red)...

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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
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Seems' that, that the thing's
That we do is just an act
But, in the truth of the matter
The whole world is wack
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AFTER DEATH

Hand out stretched caught my tearsArms out stretched caught my fears
A cage outheld caught all of my sinsAn angel came gave me flying wings
With them I ascended up to beyondAll chains broke no shall to me bond
I'm leaving I won’t be coming backGone are...

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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 madness captured liberation,
powered manipulation indoctrination.
The new discovered sensation,
the will in determination.
The longing heat by blind admiration,
consequences in slow damnation.
The fanatic obscurity as separation,
freewill in...

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