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Monomaniac Poems - Poems about Monomaniac

Leaving

...I am the monomaniac who masticates 
edges of my own mandible 
to keep from swallowing you whole…
I feel the hunger crawl through me,
a hot hellish hold—
pressing its way out of my ribs.

—but ...

Categories: monomaniac, absence, abuse, break up,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

The Discarded, The Forgotten

...I am accustomed to spitting out bones of my prisoners, not witnessing their escape. I hear whales whistle their stoic dirges as I descend—they know the doomed are villains and freedom is promised to ...

Categories: monomaniac, allegory, angel, character, confidence,
Form: Prose Poetry

Egomaniacs and Heart Attacks

...No one likes an egomaniac
      or welcomes pain in their sacroiliac

    And what kind of monomaniac
      enjoys a sudden heart attack

    Yet it's my opinion, if not established fact 
    ...

Categories: monomaniac, health, life, pain, sleep,
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Vines

...I rest my eyes away from you,
and I feel the grip of our 
entwining vines. 

I feel how tightly they hold us—
I smell the fragrance of the
monomaniac squeeze—
and I feel the grip of my vines
...

Categories: monomaniac, addiction, anxiety, beautiful, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Frequency

...
“Frequency” 

we are separated 
from the others
by a thin membrane

electromagnetic

we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own

frequency

existi...

Categories: monomaniac, future, humanity, muse,
Form: Narrative

Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 34

...I listened to his heart profusely, 
For a beat like his was much to ponder
I often wondered, his thoughts, and,
A light in me knew, with wretched wonderment
What the whispers in his mutterings me...

Categories: monomaniac, desire, destiny, endurance, feelings,
Form: Epic

Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 25

...I was restless all the night,
The demoness softly singing a haunting tune
The Holy Spirit sifted in swirls around me,
And she touched with her claws its essence with strange wonder

I awoke to h...

Categories: monomaniac, courage, gothic, heart, light,
Form: Epic

All But a Dream

...How easily you return,
Within this mind's hindsight,
Never knowing how the swelling,
Gaping hole of your absence,
Weighs me down heavily,
With the confusion of your presence
In my dreams...

...

Categories: monomaniac, addiction, allusion, desire, devotion,
Form: Free verse

You Will Be the Last

...Feel my curling vines surround this unyielding fence
For years they have been tightly gripped against your rust
Above us, a darkened raincloud,
Threatening lightning and stinging sorrows…
Though ...

Categories: monomaniac, anxiety, character, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse

That Day Came

...Pointless…a strange existence, lost in the panoramic leisure of humanity's walk
I am consumed, doomed to non-being, with lingering darkness
A pain to wake up to the sound of its heavy breathing ove...

Categories: monomaniac, absence, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Walls Will Be Broken

...9/8/12

There is a wall that no one can break through
It has stood silently for a long time, begrudgingly still
Many have tried to climb over the wall, but somehow they always slip
Many have tried fo...

Categories: monomaniac, confusion, nature, giving,
Form: Free verse