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Best Cold Sober Poems

Below are the all-time best Cold Sober poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cold sober poems written by PoetrySoup members

My Heart No Longer Bleeds For You

Sleepless nights
Held myself tight 
All alone 
I’m on my own
Tell me you love me 
Tears down my face 
Throwing myself all over the place 
Filled...

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Categories: cold sober, betrayal, break up, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Annulment Coming Up

I blame me brother for the likes of this predicament,
when we pub crawled up to Bunyip, and where our night was spent.
Thank God I wasn’t...

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Categories: cold sober, humor,
Form: Rhyme

The Ballad of Danny Fine

Not too long ago, back about 1929
Was conceived a boy, name of Danny Fine
Born on a Thursday, 24th of October
A day the stock market turned...

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Categories: cold sober, father, mother, relationship, son,
Form: Ballad

Last Goodbye

The Highwaymen softly play
Me And Bobby Magee
And for the next four hours 
Every single drink is free.
Order what you like friend
And stick it on the...

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Categories: cold sober, friendship, funeral, goodbye, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

I, Zombie, Part Xii: the Remembering

It’s ten years later
I’ve finally hit paydirt
It’s the motherload

I didn’t strike gold
I struck a deal with myself
To help me grow old

Not act like a child
But...

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Categories: cold sober, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental
Form: Haiku

The Glare of Truth

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In the haze 
   of lies and doubts
      all that's glinting and prisming
     ...

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Categories: cold sober, introspection
Form: Free verse

The Lectures

I was strolling down a side street of our little town last night.
Did I say strolling, no that’s wrong; I was a sad and sorry...

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Categories: cold sober, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Around the World In

AROUND THE WORLD IN ….

Phileas Fogg sought to amaze
And circle the world in eighty days
Long before the plane

One night, in an alcoholic state,
I bet I...

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Categories: cold sober, drink, travel,
Form: Tail-rhyme

Yikes

Stone cold sober
I was one day
When a lady
Stood in my way

She smiled at me
Like something weird
Then just like that
She disappeared!

Was she a ghost
Or a lost...

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Categories: cold sober, angel, halloween, mystery, religion,
Form: Verse

A Time Lord

don’t
blink
or else
the gravel
will harden your sight -
victory of weeping angels.
the waterfall of tears - Niagara iced over.
beware foreboding avarice of twilight, capricious wings, ferocious-flying fangs

Who
might
find...

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Categories: cold sober, dark,
Form: Fibonacci

Noble Or Downright Low

In the haze 
                     ...

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Categories: cold sober, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Tail-rhyme

Cold Turkey For Old Turkeys

Can I be seeing what I think I am seeing?
Those who would have sold their own grandmother,
Before the outbreak,
Now enduring the cold for the sake...

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Categories: cold sober, addiction, cancer, character, christmas,
Form: Dramatic Verse

You Are Scared of Me

Heavy lipstick and curled hair, 
Like a photograph;
But I feel the energy 
whenever you’re near me; 
I’m nothing like the rest of them 
that’s why...

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Categories: cold sober, emotions, longing, love, lust,
Form: Free verse

Her

It was nearly summer break, 
 We met as she bumped into me. 
She fell and I helped her up,
That was only the beginning.

We spent...

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Categories: cold sober, crush, cute love, love,
Form: Free verse