Best Withdrawal Poems

How different this place
this sanctuary feels, here
inside one’s head. Where
insidious illusions fondle
a subvert mind, and obscenities
resonate within the confusion,
when fidgety creatures, assume
guardianship of my preternatural
situation, scurry around my space,
creating lattice of fabrication
across the quaking ceiling.
My imagination becoming
their fodder, my perception
their power, my tenacity
their strength, before...

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Wide awake in bed
Feeling so afraid
For I'm at the brink
Of getting another drink

Drowning in the deep
Oh, I cannot sleep
For I'm at the brink
Of getting another drink

Depressed and downcast
How long would this last?
For I'm at the brink
Of getting another drink...

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RIGHT NOW
IF ONLY
I COULD TOUCH YOUR FACE
TRACE IT WITH MY FINGERTIPS
FEEL YOUR HEART BEATING
SO CLOSE
IN SYNCHRONICITY
YOUR BREATH UPON MY NECK
HANDS
EVERYWHERE
THE THOUGHT BRINGS TEARS
YOU ARE SO FAR
IN DISTANCE
BUT YOU ARE HERE
BESIDE ME
ALWAYS.

2000...

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Cool withdrawal from love

Do not think that I love you less
Than when at your mercy I lay
But to forestall the sad distress
Of forlorn love, I keep away.

Pipe dreaming for everything
Which I have known to be your traits
Your image to my fancy bring
And  makes my...

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We'll
hate it
if they do-
hate it if they
don't...

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What is love, just chemicals in the brain.
And when love ends, it can be a pain.

It’s like a drug, withdrawal to go through.
And there’s nothing that anyone can do.

There is the good and there is bad.
And regardless of both, it’s still sad.
The good is knowing...

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I write you, my handsome one. 
I can't kiss your lips. 
I can't send you a telegram. 
I can't call out your name. 
But I can write you...again...
again and again..
until your fire leaves my blood. 
Until I dance happily without you 
burning my brain.
Trembling hand,...

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 I need a withdrawal;
From the Heart of God;
That's the only bank I need y'all;
Just non-monetary,  just unconditional love, always;
I need a withdrawal;
From the Heart Bank of God:

2/10/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2023...

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Love soaked water kitchen porter barter with the gentle lentil casserole carpenter cloth froth poshy pudding pie on the table maple staple leaves to the kitchen table nails snails sitting in the garden nitting little hats flats bathroom mats in a row snow flowing water...

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During enduring winter rain
the small bird cheeping

his only wish of certain warmth
ducks out of the sheeting rain - each
 
grain aimed an icy dart poignantly
tipped with a hardening past -

into the chimney duct through
too-small a hole for use again,

tweaking his wish to certain flames,
some sorta...

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Arnold Palmer was knock-kneed
  when he addressed the ball
President Clinton smoked weed
  yet said he never inhaled at all

Tiger Woods fell in love with a Swede
  though their marriage did sputter and fall
President Biden's been known to mislead
  folks ~ He's...

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BOOK WITHDRAWAL

Mildew wafting from a single page,
in a cardboard box filled with library books.
I decide which ones to stage,
seek crannies and nooks,
but first I find the stinker and dispel dirty looks.

7/25/2017
Quintain (English)...

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I look in the mirror objectively
It haunts
Haunts the soul  and respects NOT my dignity
It comes close
But it drives me further away 
In vino veritas, they say the truth can drive you sane.


Maybe just
Maybe

We are not alone when we look in the mirror
Our shadows split...

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I'm a little paranoid
Just like an Android
That's about to get hit by an astroid
I woke up dead
There's a snake in my bed
Beads of sweat dripping off my forehead
Time stands still When you feelin ill
I think I'll take one more pill
Crush it up and try not...

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Only solitude and pain, 
Can blend into such beautiful damage. 
Poetry, 
A stage, 
A crowd.
I was my own creator and destroyer.
I opened deep parts of myself,
For strangers in dim light. 
The applause silenced the sound of the ever_forming cracks in my heart, 
The silence allowed...

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