Best Toxic Poems

Senseless fear of others, being shy.
All my life, been the uneasy guy.
It's a functional thing, not organic.
Social situations, just that little bit of panic.
"Stranger anxiety" from early childhood,
never left me, then even Mom and Dad weren't good.
You'd think I wouldn't feel it, at least with...

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Toxic Cake
       by Odin Roark

How drippingly fine
The words that coat
Such layered density 
Icing thick enough
To entice the fool
Along with seasoned critics
Into toxic waste goodness

Persuasion chefs united
Gourmet salesmanship
Learned minds 
Street smart minds
Tribal and nepotistic minds
All hawking hidden contagion
Beneath their ever...

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To claim no purpose for this toxic state,
other than hate or desired submission.
To find a spirit chained to the walls of circumstance,
by birth and denied just cause, 
because of skin color.
To struggle in the land of the free,
trapped in a quagmire of unreasonable eyes,
fighting the...

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Non-Toxic Love

Pecking order glances
Destroys friendship chances
Dissolves love, annuls romances.

Surviving smart as a fox…
Smooths that road of hard knocks…
So step out of the box.

Live above mental kicks.
Care, without verbal pricks,
Strengthen homes made of sticks.

Avoid hot gossiping lips
Prevent ill judger's grips.
Watch the evil one do flips.

Find peace...

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I bent the universe

I bent the universe
back and forth
rapidly until 
it cracked


and still couldn’t
fit through
to the future
or the past

Written for the Toxic State contest
Sponsored by FJ Thomas...

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Acceptance


How long before acceptance calmed his mind?
At first, he claimed the news was ill-acquired.
Each day he pushed and kept himself so blind
to reasons why he felt confused and tired
and strove to do all things that were required.
But slowly he began to acquiesce;
with sense of calm...

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Cold and withered my heart mildly beats,
As my mind plays my past in short repeats.
Withdrawn and rejected, I feel so low,
The world doesn’t stop repeating its blow.

I look out the window and feel the wind brush my cheeks,
Even when I want to let go; my...

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melt with me against a toxic sunset of lust
light the burning candles

illuminate the red hot metal lanterns
dive naked into my arms raw

take of my flesh as i take of yours
lose ourselves one in the other

devour the creamy liquid of my origin
and i the nectar from...

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I sit in your webb  of destruction waiting 
waiting for the bite that will be suffocating 
turning my love into death 
as the spider takes his last dying breath, 

Toxic love, the only love I know 
smack in the fsce was the way I...

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My house is a toxic place
 hidden under a mask of a loving home
I was constantly compared to others
And would be stuck listening to my parents adult problems
But constantly told I was to young for things
I was told I should not settle for the boy
Who...

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Know any???
They NEVER have anything good to impart,
they fondly embrace doom and gloom!
Everything with them is all grief and strife-
they walk in and take warmth from a room!

Bad karma and drama they wear like a badge-
"that will never work", they are known to say!
When you...

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Let's play pretend 
Pretend you are the hero and I am the damsel in depression 

You sold me a magic future you'd crafted out of fool's gold
And I fell into the shimmer 
A siren song in rough seas and
 I sang merrily we fall

What adventure...

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Your ocean waves have, 

Beaten me down, 

Across the rocky shore,

As I lay facedown, 

Thinking about our lore, 



How nothing I did, 

Seemed to even the imaginary score,

Nothing I ever did,

Seem to matter to you anymore.



My stomach will always be,

Too soft for you, 

My presence...

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Coffin lungs unhinge a chest open bare, 
fragile skin ripping thin as bat membrane-
flutter in waves of vapor, from the heart that beats itself,
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Betwixt our deceptive connection
Lies told, to always end in
I’ll never have a profound perspective
As my skepticism results in your grin

When our paths crossed
Like two sailboats in a panoramic sea
I believed you were mannerly
Though, sprouted unexpectedly was your immorality

My standpoint was already set 
My conception was...

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