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Best Self Infliction Poems


My Foolish Heart
...Living life dangerously with my heart on my sleeve
So reckless, So careless. Others can't conceive
Have you no walls? Where is your protection?
You're bound to get hurt by self-infliction
They lo......

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Categories: self infliction, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Three Dead Gods
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Three Dead Gods
Jesus
The world according to Art

Three crosses
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Burdens
self infliction
caring, a full
blown crucifixion
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	Three ......

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Categories: self infliction, abuse, allah, art, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Asinine
...I am emotionally unstable, 
From being wrapped in the clutching grips of this mental psychosis.
I am now vulnerable to the plague of self infliction, 
driving me towards one of my many addictions.
Al......

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Categories: self infliction, conflict, confusion, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Tragedy In Black
...Obsessions jumped into his mind
The haunting unwanted kind
Unable to write off
He's a man of cloth.
Sexual images invade
No relief when he prayed
A parishioner's wife
Was dealing with strife
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Categories: self infliction, dark, depression, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
My Dying Wish
...Walkin around head down
Praying I'll soon be casket bed bound
Whether it's from a gun when it spreads rounds
Or catch a disease that causes me to shed
pounds
And I pass away alone no tear drop s......

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Categories: self infliction, lifeme, self, me, self,
Form: Light Verse
My Name Is Addiction
...To those of us that struggle with addiction,
 It's a choice you could say a self-infliction.

    You’re a slave to the substance and you’re not aware,
 A heavy cross for one to bare.

    All ......

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Categories: self infliction, addiction,
Form: Rhyme



Hiding From Existence-Invisible
...How easy it is not to be sought or seen;
hiding from existence,
weakening confidence,
missing its eloquence...
when feelings resurge
to question the misery of what has been
with a pathetic urge......

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Categories: self infliction, conflict, freedom, growth, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
The Closet
...Doubled up,
Hunched and hollowed;
Concealed, sitting in this musty closet.

Clutching memories to my chest and
Spreading out the others across this
Dusty darkened floor.
So dim, like these rem......

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Categories: self infliction, death, loss, love, mother,
Form: Elegy
Self Inflicted
...Self-Inflicted Contest
Sponsor: Anthony Slausen


Because addiction
I fell into the red fire
so many consequences
my self-infliction
darkness chose by my desire
I lost all my def......

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Categories: self infliction, addiction, how i feel,
Form: Sedoka
'no Quatrains, But Refrains' - Part 5
...(a poetry collection)

for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jallaladin Rumi

… the mind within mutely knows that much of love´s pain is not surrender, but self-infliction, 
ye......

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Categories: self infliction, romance
Form: Prose Poetry
The Music Stops
...The jaws sing
As the drip, drip, drip,
Of the petroleum chorus
Dances across 
The inverted aluminum
And the hissing starts
And the hissing stays
Its smell a warning
A final omen
Like the las......

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Categories: self infliction, death,
Form: Blank verse
A Means To An End
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A Means To An End




Innocense lost to a lifetime of cost
And a childhood mistake
Don't lose your health finding yourself
Or deny the journey that you take


The truth didn't die, and neith......

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Categories: self infliction, angst, depression, recovery from...,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ALCOHOL
...A Absolute wreckage

L Lights gone out in blackout consumption

C Carnage of gigantic proportions

O Oblivion through self infliction

H Hostage to addiction

O Obstructionist behaviour

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Categories: self infliction, addiction,
Form: Acrostic
Telepathic Connections---
...The world,The homes,
The people and their emotions,
Initial contractions of real
expectations, for I have 
telepathic connections

The world,The homes
The people, Hiding emotions
of true natu......

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Categories: self infliction, community, emotions, eulogy, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Infliction
...The burning sensation of lust,
Red seeping from her core.
Her shattered heart,
Followed by shattered tears.
The anger gliding across her wrist,
Her solution still remains.
Yearning to lead a no......

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Categories: self infliction, abuse, dark, death, depression,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry