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Best Carbon Monoxide Poems

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Carbon Monoxide -Co- Week 3: Talkin' 'Bout My 'Noxide
The steady pull
of temptation--
a tease on
my resolution.

When I can sleep, 
I take what dreams 
afford me.
In these dreams,
my 'noxide comes
to ward me.

Her smoke is an...

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© Hyle Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carbon monoxide, confusion, depression, devotion, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Carbon Monoxide (Co) Week 1: O.D.A.A.T.
Chain smoke until
I'm in care of the CO.
There's one left, still.
I smoke it really slow.
"It's the end," I anticipate
As the last inch evaporates.

I can't get
Over...

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© Hyle Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carbon monoxide, confusion, dedication, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Carbon Monoxide (Co) Week 2: Carbon Cabrona
Smokeless inhales hurt.
I cough tar on my shirt.
As my black lungs breathe,
Shrilling exhales wheeze.

Cabrona
Falls me
Down to
My knees.

The nicotine cracks
My will.
My composure
Spills.

I want 
This.
I must 
Have...

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© Hyle Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carbon monoxide, confusion, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Carbon Monoxide Alert
An odorless/colorless gas highly toxic is the report
It’s Carbon Monoxide by name but I’ll call it CM for short.

It’s known as The Silent Killer and...

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Categories: carbon monoxide, health, life
Form: Rhyme
December Is Lost
Without you next to me as I sleep, it’s like carbon monoxide in my lungs. I awake rotten and malnourished. Experiencing life as a ghost,...

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Categories: carbon monoxide, adventure, art, dark, december,
Form: Romanticism



Our Environment Today
I was taught by   my father to be obedient in the dense forest to save the individuals trees, stop destruction to plantation. I...

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Categories: carbon monoxide, earth, farm, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dragon and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
We were looking at pictures from the Mars Reconnaisance Rover.
Dragon became so very excited, and he wanted to go right over.
Before we let him go...

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Categories: carbon monoxide, imagery, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Light Verse
A Very Rude Awakening
My dream was such that I just didn’t want to be awake
When an unexpected change in tone caused my good mood to break  ...

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Categories: carbon monoxide, funny,
Form: Quatrain
Corner of the Street
Pedestrians are moving ups and downs the day can define the differences he experiences in the bathroom, cars buzzing their noise, around my understanding I...

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Categories: carbon monoxide, appreciation, butterfly, candy,
Form: Chant Royal
In My Night Journey
I travel in my imagination to talk to the sky about the sound from crying 
 Mum, the coastal area erosion my interest to take...

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Categories: carbon monoxide, blessing, loneliness, love, ,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part Two
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carbon monoxide, august, autumn, farewell, lost
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Day of the Bees
Through her window,she could see nothing in the clear blue sky. 
Its deep colour was reflected in the calm waters 
Of the estuary  which...

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Categories: carbon monoxide, war, people, rain, sound,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part One
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
 Part One           ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carbon monoxide, august, autumn, farewell, september,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Freelance Romance
I saw the universe inside your eyes,
missing the self loathing that was within;
Ignoring my past and what had just been; 
Flames expelling carbon monoxide highs
replenishing...

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Categories: carbon monoxide, emotions, feelings, romance,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Ford Anglia
Ford Anglia

Ford Anglia, Ford Anglia,
You were always my favourite Car.
Distinctive shape and two-toned colour,
In the showroom, you were the Star.

Cortina, my Cortina,
Your sleek lines made...

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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carbon monoxide, car, emotions, memory, remember,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs