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Best Addictions Poems

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Premium Member Small Addictions
“Small Addictions” 

bit by bit 
the hunger begins,
the time when everyone,
it would seem, is giving in
to those small addictions

inevitably they become
your sole purpose for living,
your...

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Categories: addictions, love, muse,
Form: Narrative



Sexual Addictions Are Destroying Our Families
Sexual Addictions Are Destroying Our Families!
Many families are being destroyed by sexual addictions!
As they bring into their homes unneeded afflictions!

There are affairs of adultery of...

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Categories: addictions, culture, divorce, faith, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: addictions, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Peace of Wild Things
Alone and left to contemplate, 
had I a pair of wings,
I’d fly away and search the world 
for the peace of wild things.

To live among...

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Categories: addictions, peace,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Songs & the Makers
My soul understood Lynyrd Skynyrd
Like Ronnie I had monkeys to
Just simple boys chasing life’s joys
With our needles playing our blues

My soul understood Pink Floyd
For I...

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Categories: addictions, dedication, inspirational, life, music,
Form: Rhyme



The Memory
In the garden she said goodbye.
A kiss filled with remorse.
Moonlit memories she asked to forget us 
as I promised to try.

Time and addictions.
A change in...

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Categories: addictions, angst, introspection, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
The End of the Rainbow
Remember the days when we all felt free
Back in the days when we were happy as can be
Not a worry in the world,where all our...

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Categories: addictions, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unheard Plea
She could bring sunlight to the darkness
Warmth to the cold
Joy to the sorrowful
The inner child to the old

She had such a passion for life
Viewed through...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addictions, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Gotta Have Heart
Tag words: advertising, bebop, bird, bottle, Charlie 
Parker, Coca-Cola, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie,
door, flag, heart, jazz, light bulb, Louis Armstrong,
Miles Davis, palette, Pepsi Cola, pluralism...

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Categories: addictions, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Greatest Affliction
Addictions, restrictions, afflictions, decisions,
A needle, a bottle, step down hard on that throttle!
Disaster, no more laughter, destruction for years after.
Placate, eradicate, fornicate, masturbate,
Addiction.  Restriction....

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Categories: addictions, addiction, body, corruption, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Tape Measure
tape measure in hand
soft spoken,"Can't believe it"....
dust upon treadmill  


Inspired by the contest about addictions
not an entry....
Since my back problems and then the surgery,
I...

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Categories: addictions, addiction,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Kids' Table
Laying my head back, eyes closing,
reminiscing, the years falling away into decades ago
to the 1950s at my grandparents' grand home
for Christmas.

It was a gracious dining...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addictions, christmas, cousin, family, friend,
Form: Free verse
Affliction of Addiction
The feeling of a mind in a constant rotation 
Regardless, the effect is a sensation 
Erratic thoughts and a foggy haze 
Trapped within an infernal...

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Categories: addictions, addiction, introspection, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Jesus Christ Has the Power Over Any Addiction
Jesus Christ Has the Power Over Any Addiction!

I often hear of people who battle addictions.
This often leaves many scars and afflictions.

There's counselors to help, "a...

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Categories: addictions, addiction, faith, freedom, god,
Form: Rhyme
Eternal Struggle For Serenity
Serenity, the gift I’ve forever longed
To be peaceful as a lily in a still pond
My fear drops away like raindrops down a windowpane
Love flows like...

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© Nick Faber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addictions, life, philosophy, recovery from...,
Form: Rhyme

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