Codependence Poems

TROUBLE

...In your presence, I rode an emotional roller coaster.
A wild journey through peaks and valleys, no poster. 
From dizzying heights to the depths of a dungeon.
You stir my soul, unraveling emotions,...

ReCentering Domestic NonViolence

...This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.  

Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking a hug...

Control Freaks In Love

...One of the most conceited couple complained then conceded
On a compromise which comprised of all the things left unspoken,
While comprehension and codependence due to run rampant....

The Arsonist

...You set the bridge on fire, burning away all of our connections
You are the most calculating arsonist looking back in reflections
You might as well have staked my heart like vampire rejections
You...

Love Isn'T

...Love isn’t amorousness,
Nor is it hunger nor thirst,
With vehemence, I insist:  Love is a perpetual motion machine
O!  Break!  Break!  Break!  My Hardened Heart!
Be shattered by Love,
And let al...

Cooperative Future Owners

...Kids,
like adults,
who become ecologically active,
join in gardening,
urban, and suburban, and rural cooperative farming,
green environmental sciences,
school gardens as group art installations...

March 25, 2016

...This poem 
is about 
how much
I adore
my sister
and the
pot brownies
I’m in
trouble for
and how 
they are 
related for I
have an 
unhealthy 
obsession 
with one and
unhealthy 
Codepe...

If Poetry Were a Man

...If poetry were a man
And he would be a man
As he exhibits all the symptoms of the most haunting members of that sex
On the one hand, a near-crippling arrogance, yet balanced by great likeability
...

Dysfunctional

...Being with you is an emotional roller coaster …instability
You circulate my emotions from the heights to the dungeon 
my guards are down I own the humility
You are the destroyer of my being, my so...

Begat Primal Rhythm

...Time begat space,
energy begat matter,
function begat form,
as Yin begat Yang.

Concave begat convex,
negative-squared begat positive,
ionic waves begat radiant sprays,
as NotNotBinomial Func...

Battling Addiction

...I loved you once years ago 
Our passion was divine
Could see our life together forever
But instead I could not compete
For your lover was a bottle.

I tried all I could do 
Being your wife and suppor...

Who Can Find a Virtuous Woman

...Who can find a virtuous woman?
She is worth far more than rubies.
She is not a possession but a partner.
She is a fantastic conversation starter.
My wife found out that her brother drowned and that s...

The Rescuer

...finding a depth in the 
vulnerable person
standing before him--- 
a hole he feels needs filling
by someone compassionate,
by someone who would just 
listen,
he moves closer to her &
offers his hand i...

Ours Alone

...she & she or
she & he or
he & he or
locked in a cage
like birds with clipped wings
staring through the bars out at the sunlight making its way over the back of the early morning mountains
with a cool...

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