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Cacoethes

I love having—
hating the feeling of wanting.
Wanting cuts my guts as consequentially as diarrhea.

I steal casually,
like second breaths after waking,
or proper newborns latched onto Mama’s nipple.

It is inspired vice.
There’s a teaspoonful of buccaneering Barbarossa
sprinkled in my lines.

I commit careless crimes—
not much outside the magpie’s range.
I am the cupbearer at Mass now.

All men are wanting persistently.
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Categories: cacoethes, addiction, desire, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Cacoethes

My muse is an excuse for an insatiable desire
To empty my heart and set your heart on fire

I’m not much of a writer if you didn’t know
Unless life inspired or desired by sensual soul

It’s as if red fever has stricken my body
Words circle blue brain and join to party

I hate it yet love it the

Categories: cacoethes, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Couplet

Cacoethes

Cacoethes is a word I never heard.
It must be a kind of affliction,
and now a challenge has me spurred
to render its poetic depiction.

For me, this will be a difficult task,
as my judgment is always sound.
Indeed, this is a demanding "ask",
but I'll find a way to expound.

Personally, I find it's ill-advised 
to overshare my thoughts,
for I

Categories: cacoethes, psychological,
Form: Rhyme

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Cacoethes

Cacoethes as infatuation
visited me mostly in my youth.
Those deep yearnings fed my soul
with the lyrics of melancholy love songs
that revolved on my record player’s
turntable as I, in my callow days,
lay in bed drowning in my fantasies
of unobtainable desires.

Cacoethes as cravings
found me also as the obsessions
that were literally fed me as food.
Too easily was I led

Categories: cacoethes, addiction,
Form: Free verse

Cacoethes


  Writing is compulsion and yearning within,
           for me a longing that I cannot ignore;
  and in my nightly dreams words weave and begin,

Categories: cacoethes, poetry, writing,
Form: Rispetto

Cacoethes

Written: December 30, 2024 for Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh

Fearful individuals may find claustrophobic environments enticing. He battled his formidable opponent Cacoethes for the final two furlongs and won. By Poet


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Time

Categories: cacoethes, conflict, health,
Form: Rhyme

CACOETHES

CACOETHES

The urge comes upon us all, in time
To step over the line, however bad
Yet some of us know, others do not
How deep into trouble one has got
For a few, it can be starting the rot
But in ignorance, still won’t be sad
And not recognise when it’s a crime

One may even surrender to the urge
When being naughty

Categories: cacoethes, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Cacoethes

"Alone is an addiction for Agoraphobics," ... by The Poet

Fireplace, beg a question; spark fuels naught?
Tired face lit the embers that awaken,
iron mace walled, beyond, fox and bears fraught.
My birthplace well-hushed that quiet sneak-in.

Contented engraved on my face, falsely,
consent and circumstance, hunger and thirst,
extent and measure, fed and quenched shortly,
ingested fully well, blessed, and naught

Categories: cacoethes, absence, addiction, anxiety, character,
Form: Lento

Cacoethes

inexplicable,

this endlessly gnawing yen...

      and hunger for thee!




Date written: 06/27/2020

Categories: cacoethes, deep, desire, longing, passion,
Form: Senryu

Cacoethes Scribendi

Faint glimmers - The most radiant, - of hope
Have transcended such a lackluster horizon,
And words of wonder have yet,
But yet again and with assent,
Escaped my lips for better bet.

For haven't all who wandered near,
And wondered here - despite the years -
And fought the tears beyond,
With a missive and a word
Had what they held most dear?

In

Categories: cacoethes, imagination, love, may,
Form: Free verse