Best Abstinent Poems

An old Ethiopian veteran of the love wars 
once told a newlywed Kenyan kid:
If you want the infant marriage to survive,
make it to the golden years Mt. Kilimanjaro side
You gotta keep the giraffe standing up,
when the ecstasy mountain air gets thin at night
When you’re starting...

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I deferred the words " I love you"
Until the morrows light.
Words, that from my heart,
I felt impressed upon to say.

For sure, "I love you",
Would have best been said that night.
Still I reserved ownership,
For perhaps some abstinent day.

Instead, from my vast reserve,
Grating words were launched to...

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Now gather around, ye lusty lads, a tale I'll tell to thee
Of jealous Gods, monsters and ill-fated men who sailed the sea.
My tale is set in hoary times when fickle fate was by divine decree.
Then men were men who faced all odds, much sturdier than...

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I admit I approximated akin adultery
Abusively allowing my abominable,abstinent eyes
To absorb abstract,alluring beauty around me
Gazed galvanic glances guiltily
Thus glamorized God's grave gluttony.

    Abdelwaheb Dhaou....

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Here I let go a wish again
Here I lose one more bargain

Was ready to start early at the dawn
Would have accepted a game drawn
Was instead handed a routing defeat
Call it a harakiri or a rival's feat

Never aimed as high as sky
Anyway didn't have wings to...

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I admit I approximated akin adultery
Abusively allowing my abominable,abstinent eyes
To absorb abstract,alluring beauty around me
Gazed galvanic glances guiltily
Thus glamorized God's grave gluttony....

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The day I heard I had HIV

The letter from the health department read like this in so many words: “Your lifestyle has caught up with you and you have been a naughty girl. You have contracted something possibly, but we wanna make sure it?s positively...

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I admit I approximated akin adultery
Abusively allowing my abominable abstinent eyes
To absorb abstract,alluring beauty around me
Gazed galvanic glances guiltily
Thus glamorized God's grave gluttony....

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Her scars scream
 "Victor"

her eyes say,
Guilty

her hands,
lover,mother,wisdom

Her mouth,
betrayal,numbness


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Though no advocate of radical mass stick tummy, 
there must needs be 
some nonviolent modus operandi and/or 
modus vivendi spelling abandonment, 
whereby two party bicameral political  
system in United States buzzfeed ding, 
sans avarice, greed, nepotism... abasement

of sacrosanct principles enshrined in Constitution,
and Declaration of...

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Midterms are over and I killed ‘em (Yes, even physics) - yeah me! I spent the last two weeks like prisoners do, marking off days until - freedom. Now the pressure’s off and I can chill. Spring break starts tomorrow and I have NO plans....

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A voice From the Past 

My childhood friend rang me he hadn’t been ringing me for some time
 he is the shy type and only ring when he has been drinking and judging 
by his infrequency of calls he is rather abstinent. He spoke of...

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The one so close with effervescence is wavering though persuasiveness of fear is abstinent.
A force of delicate dissemination cannot stand with the overwhelming multitude of grandeur as your spirit of greatness is sewn.
For the wind blows strong with floundering ways yet blissful is the hold...

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Quit smoking, her son laments
as she takes a drag
from her
kingsize kents

You smoke too much, he cries
as tears fall down her face
from smoke blowing
into her eyes

You'll be sorry, he quips
as she swears while
her fingers slide down
the lit tip

That's the last pack, he demands
As the nicotine stains
disfigure...

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They said that some men had the callings of planets,
Stationary compared to mortals,
Abstinent and moral,
That the energy they were given to live,
Attracted others like a Sun would give,
That they were gods amongst men third person,
Always asking men to ascend,
Man didn't know that that calling was...

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