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Best Avoidant Poems

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Avoidant Personality
Fears conversation
Elaborate avoidance 
Of social outings...

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Categories: avoidant, angst, depression, health, life
Form: Haiku



I Am An Avoidant
i am an avoidant

i avoid the eyes that stare

they make me feel like handcuffs to a chair

and I'm afraid of the face

how it comes to...

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Categories: avoidant, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
Fearful Avoidant
I've been sneezing since June from the dust.
I took bupropion with mountain dew-
Now I can't sleep, my heart is beating fast,
I'm a little dizzy and...

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Categories: avoidant, june,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Avoidant
Mixed signals 
Superficial love
A hoax
A dismissive love
That come so genuine 
To only fool 
Break
Cause 
Pain to the receiving soul

Once loved
Once thought as the one
The dream...

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Categories: avoidant, anger, angst, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Did It Go
I have been looking for my voice
                 It is...

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Categories: avoidant, poetry, voice, words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Misguided Meditations
I am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.

Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hear
and feel,
touched by wounded toxicity.

My training...

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Categories: avoidant, anxiety, appreciation, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
The Art of Self-Destruction
I am the queen of self destruction.
Ritualistic Razor sharp scrutiny of my reflection -
constantly spewing hate at my mid-section, 
whilst effortlessly faking the pursuit of...

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Categories: avoidant, bullying, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
It's a World of Threes
Past, Present, Future.
They are all Now. 
In the disappointing Present, 
I desire the unfulfilled Dream of Future,
Yet i am Plagued by memories and comparisons of...

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Categories: avoidant, lifefuture,
Form: Prose Poetry
Mirror Minds
The mirror knows.
It shows
More than you’ll allow it
More th?n you’ll admit.
The music stops
The heart – it drops.
At least, while you are dancing
You’ve got no time...

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Categories: avoidant, analogy, anxiety, art, dance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Between Man and Boy
The silent street in evening shade
Glistening wet with shallow puddles
Where a frightened dog drinks
And runs

A hand in his neck, constrained
A guide without compromise
Bypassers glance without...

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Categories: avoidant, abuse, anxiety, boy, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Begets Resilience
Back in our preverbal day
of healthy regenerating time,
indigenous wisdom
pursued peak experiences
of cooperative pleasure,
deep co-empathic embrace.

Sometimes,
especially when this pleasure was sustained,
euphoric,
ejaculatory
and reverberating in resonant cycles
of deep...

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Categories: avoidant, earth, health, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse
Depression and Schizophrenia
When at last you have become aware deep down yourself
and of the people whom require at last some mental health
be serviced, come to services
and you...

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Categories: avoidant, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hanging On To Trauma
There is this hypothesis
I unjustly
and perhaps traumatically
just made hard and patriarchally up
is not down 
and retentatively not out
soon enough for healthy comings 
and goings

A ridiculous...

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Categories: avoidant, culture, health, humor, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Too Little Too Late
Know of a lady
Who patiently waited

To at last be seen
Seen and heard

Given the merest scraps
 Biding her time

Time she watched fly
as the swiftest bird

Always warmed...

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Categories: avoidant, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Impulsive
prone to
bouts of 
spontaneous
impulsive
self-restrictive 
avoidant 
emotive 
interactions
full of in-actions 
that appeared 
to come on 
suddenly 
automatically   
without prior
planning so 
it seemed at the
time...

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Categories: avoidant,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things