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Best Compulsions Poems

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Compulsions
Cloudy cool weather:
outing still a wishful though 
- chains of compulsions...

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Categories: compulsions, depression, life, passion, sad,
Form: Haiku



Escaping Rhymed Detonation
Malevolent imploded uncontrollably, 
  twisting wildly maniacal posies
   amid diabolically toasted brainstem, 
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses 
  purging stinging speech patterned...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compulsions, allegory, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Not Another Day
Impulsive or compulsive

Either way it's not conducive

Living with this disorder

Can't be good for my liver

Obsessions, when do they stop?

Compulsions, when do I stop?

Let me illustrate...

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Categories: compulsions, anger, angst, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Luscious
Sin

   Oh, my ...

      Desire, divine

         What I would give

...

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Categories: compulsions, appreciation, body, sensual, sexy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Decayed
As I stand before this old, dilapidated house,
A structure fast decaying and about to crumble, 
With its walls painted grey and white,
And the plaster bearing...

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Categories: compulsions, destiny, house, missing,
Form: Free verse



A Purple People Poem
Retro thrusters, smokey hot,
Thunder in the dim of night.
Sprouting things all green and broke,
Mutant brains are taking flight.

Mole like beasts with huge blind eyes
Push and...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compulsions, halloween, horror, humor, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
There I’ve said it out loud
Having it does not make me proud

I get obsessed with certain things
Like writing poetry or buying rings

I change my compulsions...

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Categories: compulsions, funny, health, me,
Form: Couplet
Frankenstein Rebounds
It started with a single thread,
something, someone once had said
something, for which I still felt dread
something, that I'd long thought dead

This thing, that would not...

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Categories: compulsions, freedom, heartbreak, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Bad Breeding
the list that was a fist
a) it is possible
b) it is inevitable
chained to a million pleasures
an astonishing compendium of compulsions
honed bright with a fool's ardor
the...

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Categories: compulsions, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
A Mutual Enemy
A Mutual Enemy
By Reg Rhodes



My friend and I have a dangerous and mutual enemy. It is called alcohol, and 
it is killing her. 

Masquerading as...

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© Reg Rhodes  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compulsions, addiction, drink, faith, spiritual,
Form: ABC
Hedonic Treadmill
Insatiable thirst and hunger
A bottomless materialistic pit
Always something for nothing
Prop your feet up; you’re the ****

Narcissist lazy behavior
Spoiled childish attitude
Snowflakes; everybody’s a winner
Except for people...

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Categories: compulsions, america, conflict, social, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Daddy Demands
EarthMama Invites

Without RightDaddy Dominance,
Left EcoMama
and Her still innocent suppressed Children,
share no opposing WinLose
assuming
internalized voices,
just anxious and angry
and fearful feelings
about LoseLose
ZeroZone,
ego and Earth
matriarchal-line 
extinguished.

Because all RightBrain...

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Categories: compulsions, bullying, caregiving, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Obsessive Compulsive Little Me
Nothing was ever going to displace my obsession for painting in my mind.
A joyfulness I had never experienced before entered my soul realm when
I finished...

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Categories: compulsions, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Its Getting Late
Each day, the inevitable draws closer 
Our time is measured by the number of days and nights
How we’ve chose to live in each of those...

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Categories: compulsions, abuse, addiction, allegory, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Haunted
I felt it – stirring, spontaneous repulsion,
the darkness
Recovering from the steel black holes
Eyes intent on raping the soul
Ravishing the vulnerable,
Violating the hope, the wonder.

He was...

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Categories: compulsions, abuse, addiction, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things