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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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A resilient addict with corona

Believes he is immune as a stoner

Puts Mary Jane on the mask

And Jimmy Beam in his flask

Fortifies his deluded persona


Quite soon...

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