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Obsessing Poems - Poems about Obsessing

Flaws

...I know making you less perfect
won’t make me any better
yet I can’t help it
I fabricate your flaws in my head 
as if it would make my own disappear 
almost as if ruining you 
made me any better...
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Categories: obsessing, girl, high school, identity,
Form: Free verse

Desolate Symphony

...When you're lonely and exposed.
Blood, shred and tears.
And after all this time that you still owe.
And after all the blood that you still owe.
After lie, after lie.
Nothing, nowhere.
You're st...
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Categories: obsessing, angel,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThanks for the Past Couple of Years

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    Here’s an extra-large thank you to Israel and Ukraine
       who have fought the West’s wars for them
    holding Iran and its proxies, and Putin’s Russia at bay

    Imagine if Putin was n...
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Categories: obsessing, appreciation, imagination, international, thank
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Cavalcade Rondine

...A cavalcade of savage singing lights  
whip worshippers of ultraviolet;
Indulging the most hedonistic threat 
they raise hooks to meritorious heights;
DJ’s entourage being read last rites
at the...
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Categories: obsessing, dance, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Other

Premium MemberI look deep into the tapestry of my mind, where shadows dance incessantly

...I look deep into the tapestry of my mind, where shadows dance incessantly,
There where fear and insecurity weave imaginary stories, fluttering beneath my ribs.
None of them are real, not one, just ...
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Categories: obsessing, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLove Jones

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Love jones, love jones. I’ve got a love jones for that guy.
Obsessing over him both day and night am I,
Visualizing him with me, we’re flying in the sky.
Effervescent I’d be feeling (were it tru...
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Categories: obsessing, love,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberWe Will Have the Blessing--NOW

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Mama’s Thanksgiving plans went awry.
Football lovers might understand why.
Mama called for the blessing.
Everyone was obsessing 
over touchdowns. Mom uttered a sigh.

“Keep the food...
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Categories: obsessing, 10th grade, football, thanksgiving
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberThe Spirit of Christmas

...Take away the tinsel and the sugared treats.
Take away the decorations and all those pretty lights
twinkling across our cities and across the globe.
Take away Black Friday and frantic shopping,
t...
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Categories: obsessing, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTrying To Be Less Type A

...Balance to me means to try and be less Type A
To stop obsessing over things I cannot change
Balance to me means not to play all weekend.
I am so Type A during the week that I feel I deserve it.
B...
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Categories: obsessing, me,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFalling Through Eros

...Love is...

a hot lead brick in my babbling brain
a brainless storm in my gloomy gut
a greedy clump of lava in my headless heart
a haggard heart chained to a torrid tornado
a t...
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Categories: obsessing, dark, love, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNo Need

...Stop analysing 
No need to dissect 
Stop labelling 
No names just accept

Stop obsessing 
No need to overreact 
Stop complicating
Keep simple and intact...
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Categories: obsessing, change, life, simple,
Form: Free verse

Blueberry

...4/3/22


Can't stay gloomy
Or think looney
Because the outcome will be puny
It's nothing new to be
All this tomfoolery
Won't ever be cool to me
The same can be said for obsessing over jewelr...
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Categories: obsessing, dark, deep, life, nice,
Form: Rhyme

What Is Wrong With the World Today

...What is wrong with the world today
So many people have lost their way
Led in all the wrong directions
While losing the one on one connection

With emotions from real human beings
Only respondin...
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Categories: obsessing, america, political, world,
Form: Couplet

Obsession

...I obsess over nothing,
I obsess over all,
I obsess over the smallest things,
I obsess over the big things too,
I obsess over the things out of place,
I obsess over what I could have done,
I obs...
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Categories: obsessing, angst, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDrowning In Debt

...He goes through each day 
obsessing over how to 
increase his earnings. 
Times are hard. 
He's drowning in debt; 
his bills gradually piling up.
Creditors bug him so much, 
he feels like screa...
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Categories: obsessing, life, money, perspective, poverty,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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