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Best Drunkenness Poems

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Premium Member The Blind Painter
There is a part of me missing
There is a part of me that shall never be
Inside of this dark sad brooding mind
Is the painter who...

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Categories: drunkenness, analogy, art, beautiful, dream,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Turn and Repent
The innocent criminalized, chased down with pitchforks and torches of fire. Their names dragged through the mire, by the hair, stripped of their humanity.

Meanwhile the...

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Categories: drunkenness, christian, fruit,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member In All the Crummy Little Barrooms of the Soul
I wait in all the crummy
little barrooms of the soul.
I look about and sniff the air,
drink, and wait.
In the demi-world of honky-tonks,
which vie against night's
inner...

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Categories: drunkenness, angst, depression, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Edwin Hofert
Edwin C Hofert

4-14-15

I was born in nineteen sixty the lion is my sign.
All my clothes were handed down there was nothing I called mine. 
There...

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Categories: drunkenness, betrayal, childhood, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
The Greatest Treasure
THE GREATEST TREASURE

All the world’s diamonds, silver, and gold,
All the world’s antiques, polished and old,
All the vast treasures of empires now past,
All these together at...

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Categories: drunkenness, christian, forgiveness, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Swaggers Song
Swagger’s  Song 

This Free Verse was prepared by me on experimental basis to serve as a rustic Song. The free verse is yet to...

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Categories: drunkenness, song,
Form: Free verse
Bright Mistress
Soft hair blows across her face.
A sheen on excited skin emanates.
Bottomless eyes reflect attraction.

Immeasureable beauty pulls his attentions.
No equal can be found in any race.
Rowdy...

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© Wayne Hill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drunkenness, angst, love,
Form: Free verse
Poetry
In the tavern
Of Poetry flows the wine of 
Love, feelings, wisdom, 
Vision, sense and sagacity
Drunkenness permissible...

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Categories: drunkenness, on writing and words,
Form: Tanka
Pierce Hotel
Men enjoy the smell of Camel cigarettes at the check-in counter
just like they enjoy the sound of bones tapping on wood 
in the late AM...

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© Jg Finch   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drunkenness, addiction, angst, deep, lust,
Form: Lyric
The Vacuous Man
I drink...
Alone, all the time, always thinking,
About past times that should have been.
I should have done this, I should have done that,
I never get the...

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© John Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drunkenness, confusion, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Not Afraid of Fate
Saša Milivojev - NOT AFRAID OF FATE


Again
I am born again
First breath
Pain
Crying
Again I see arrays of colours
Everything has changed
What madness
It’s like a fairy tale
The taste of...

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Categories: drunkenness, dark, depression, fate, friend,
Form: Lyric
Paint Me Naked
Oh dear Artist, wield your brush upon my canvas,
Paint me naked, bared to the core of my essence,
Strip away the veils of societal pretense,
Reveal the...

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Categories: drunkenness, art, character, creation, dream,
Form: Ballad
Tunde Canada
The story of his pomposity
The gaiety of a been-to 
Embroidered in revenge.

Tunde Canada! 
Timid and denied by folks and friends
In his prime when the springboard,...

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Categories: drunkenness, discrimination, metaphor, pride, rude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abu Nuwas
Abu Nuwas


He proclaimed to the caliphate
In the dark hours of the evening
Rejoice! These splendid virgins are a bleeding
Drink our youth, and let not harm come...

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Categories: drunkenness, allah, arabic, inspirational, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Drunken Pink Elephants Allegory
Intoxicated pinkish elephants

electrified in splendiferous drunkenness

surmised surrealistic playgrounds

of surround sound echoing laughter &

expansivly lit hot air balloons

merrily drifting to embrace star-dusted

skies' kaleidoscopic enchantment

ever wonder, 

do...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drunkenness, allegory, drink, humor, imagery,
Form: Imagism

Book: Shattered Sighs