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Best Consumption Poems

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My Torment
A fleeting still small voice tries to warn me
A sudden overwhelming desire to run
The tell tale taste of metallic flakes
Means my nightmare has begun

Everything around...

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Categories: consumption, angst, confusion, depression, health,
Form: Quatrain



And the Road Begins?
Mornings are dreadful time in life unless waking beside gorgeous woman hopefully 
a not married one  husbans can be such a downer.
And when ya...

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Categories: consumption, friendship, funny, happiness, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Case of Appundicitis
A double sonnet in which the great detective and his faithful sidekick, Dr. Watson, alternately deduce the cause of Sherlock’s latest malady…

Part the first
Sherlock could...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: consumption, friend,
Form: Rhyme
A Black Woman's Ambition
A black stone with diamonds inside
She shines but you would never know
They hit her but she never falls 
They whip her but she never breaks...

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Categories: consumption, color, discrimination, slavery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The disease called shy
You have my voice that sings
My eye’s that love to see
My heart beating when it believes
My hand writing poetry of what should be
My steps walking...

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Categories: consumption, allegory, angst, love,
Form: Rhyme



Where Is Your Mind
Where Is Your Mind?

Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking cigarettes and cigars?
Is it way out there in the...

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Categories: consumption, adventure, allegory, analogy, desire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Going For Pinktober
Their murkiness has begun, an agony may follow,
Yet, you can see their faint smiles with their eyes losing their glow;
There’s a cap on their head...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: consumption, dedication, health, october,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Voice Crying Out In the Wilderness
Hard edged (unreality) you face away from my immediacy (candour eschewing) inimically you parody, offering as nice the complexity of ''vice''exploiting even nature 

(as voyeur...

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Categories: consumption, caregiving
Form: Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Ii
Gazing down along the zealously
Monitored borders of well clipped
Evergreen Privet hedges.
Standing watchful guard over 
Divisions
Re-enforced by concrete posts and
Darkly stained, wooden, wavy-lap 
Fences;
Age-old neighbourly disputes,...

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Categories: consumption, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Sings In Secret Symphonies -
As my youth goes yonder her beauty says to me yet, bet, yea,
in my mouth the word beautiful becomes a flavor of valor,
she likes to...

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Categories: consumption, beautiful,
Form: Romanticism
Too Young To Die
As the wind continue to sway,
We hurt from the inside but the outside can't lay.
Where there is a will there is a way,
But writing a...

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Categories: consumption, age,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Funeral
She sleeps forever
I sleep funeral day
she shall be buried in earth
I , buried in wine
one day flowers I will lay
at her graveside

Never the less
consumption will...

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Categories: consumption, art, death, funeral, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Lust
LUST

flesh screaming of sin
found pleasures deepening skin
raising body heat within

escaping passion
carnal knowledge attraction
attaining satisfaction

volcanic fluxion
viral viewing  seduction
stimulating consumption

sexual craving
concupiscence behaving
eroticism enslaving

magic hypnotic
display actions exotic
thirst...

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Categories: consumption, fantasy, lust, passion,
Form: Choka
Premium Member Bittersweet
Bittersweet 
	
Jose cuts the canes one at a time cursed by poverty's grind

What else does he want since he works on sweetness all
  ...

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Categories: consumption, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
The Drunken Bummmm
FrUm thE NUMB TuM Of A BuM  RuM sPiL
               ...

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Categories: consumption, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs