Best Intoxicants Poems

Getting high is a state of mind
and this altered sense
of reality
can be achieved
without chemicals.
Life's full of natural highs
free for the taking.
Running injects a "runner's high"
a...

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Natures Womb - Haiku 

aphrodisiacs 
wind carries intoxicants
Seeds spread, open wide...

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Generic flying, eating healthy, fly like a cockney
Like a Martial Arts beast, like a young terri'ble.
So far so good, driving force, all cards in hand,...

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RESPECT YOUR FREEDOM

I glance through my verandah window,
Birds flying over my head freely.
I imagined myself floating like them,
In pain complicated, reminiscence shown deeply.

The afternoon breeze...

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Calcutta. 

Hot and unberable in the searing summer heat 
and unberarable for more reasons than the heat. 
In a popular tourist cafe an American widow...

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IF TONIGHT WAS MY LAST.........

   it would be okay.......I have lived a good life......and found the blessings in pain.....
I have inspired people for lifetimes.......and helped...

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Summer arrives and the Brooklyn Cyclones are 
in first place
Saw them the other day and they won in twelve(!)
Just spoke  to a friend 
who...

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2/1/23

Shout out to Einstein
How has it not already been a sign of the times?
What a tragedy the way that Christ died
Too real it's lifesize
To this...

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The evening air spreading its soft chill,
Playing with the blue mountain to nature's will,
New snow flakes engulfs the barren hills,
Taming my heart with tender warmth...

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Auto-annihilation is stupid, 
It breaks hearts, 
And ruins lives,
I hate that I was ever self-destructive, 
I rue the day I became entranced 
By its shadowy...

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Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

You hack down everything you see, War God!

Rising on fearsome wings
you...

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Drowning myself in contemplation 
I began to drift into meditation

Sincerity
Trust
Hope
Elation

Was my upbringing bound to permutations?

Laughter fills my thoughts,

Children play hop-scotch across an eighties playground,
Full of...

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Praise, a chronic disease
Ruins humanity
Increases sugar in blood
Spreads intoxicants in artery
Hangs a curtain before eyes
Hides truth.

Mind dips in self-enchanting
Always seeks false praising words
Credits
Clappings
Honours
Rewards
All treasures of...

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Sitting here
   gazing out 
of 
my 
window 
    hearing autos rush by 
   I meditate on our dilemma...

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As adults, we have a sovereign right
To life and liberty.
Pursuent to every manner and fashion
Of that which makes us happy.
The ecstacy of intoxication
Is a fundamental...

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