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Cacoethes Poems - Poems about Cacoethes


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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. Other...

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Categories: cacoethes, addiction, desire, humanity,
Form: Free verse
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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...

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Categories: cacoethes, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Couplet



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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...

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Categories: cacoethes, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
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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...

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Categories: cacoethes, addiction,
Form: Free verse
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Writing is compulsion and yearning within, for me a longing that I cannot ignore; and in my nightly dreams words weave and begin, ...

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Categories: cacoethes, poetry, writing,
Form: Rispetto



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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 __________________________________ Time...

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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...

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Categories: cacoethes, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: cacoethes, absence, addiction, anxiety, character,
Form: Lento
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inexplicable, this endlessly gnawing yen... and hunger for thee! Date written: 06/27/2020...

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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...

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

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