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Best Vices Poems

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Vices
Powder dreams and acid queens
Snow white bliss and razor 
blades
Rails so thick your heart will 
bleed
Find your fix so you’ll succeed 
Uppers, downers, sweet cocaine
Every...

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Categories: vices, death, depression, health, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member World Day Against Racism
You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how...

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Categories: vices, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns...

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Categories: vices, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Featherless Angels
“People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another.”
- Rumi


He struggles to forget
that little boy anticipating his hero's return.
Staring out...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vices, absence, child, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dino
There once lived a gambler named Dino
who was terribly fond of vino.
Since he’d drink and play bad,
and lose all that he had,
he was loved at...

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Categories: vices, funny
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Racism: Humanity's Deadliest Social Disease
The other day
you asked me my friend, who I am
I replied:
I am you in another body!

Yes, it is true
look, how much alike we are,
no matter...

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Categories: vices, humanity, love, peace, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Constant Friend- Potd
I needed, craved, and desired you very much;
I loved the feel of you going down,
Over the years, you were a constant crutch.
With you, I loved...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vices, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
The Memory
In the garden she said goodbye.
A kiss filled with remorse.
Moonlit memories she asked to forget us 
as I promised to try.

Time and addictions.
A change in...

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Categories: vices, angst, introspection, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member With My Dying Breath
* My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun. 

A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vices, anxiety, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Our Good Shepherd
Oh Lord, Our Heavenly Father of all creation
We rely on you in all tribulations of life
Hope you will come down to touch and heal 
Our...

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Categories: vices, cheer up, encouraging, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Waltz
La dernière valse

From the skies
Clouds fall upon my dreams
I am up high, away from it all
I am far, but my tears still fall
I stand up...

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Categories: vices, grave, heart, longing, love,
Form: Light Verse
The Unchangeable
The situation in my country is terrifying
I wish I can do something gratifying,
Selfishness and corruption by leaders are annoying,
No job,no food ,no water,in a land...

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Categories: vices, life, people,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member These Days
Met with you the first time, knowing not what I had just found.
Working days and nights beside you, walking unit’s hard ground.
Helping one another in...

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Categories: vices, appreciation, christian, friend, god,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Canto Xxvi Hell Translation Part2
After the flame had come here for news
When to my duke right seemed time and too place,
In such a way I heard him to diffuse:

“You...

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Categories: vices, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Face of a Beggar Child
FACE OF A BEGGAR CHILD

I saw your tear-stained face O’ child
It swam before my eyes at night
I clearly saw your life’s struggle,
Your painful hunger pangs...

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Categories: vices, caregiving, childhood, children, life,
Form: Rhyme

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