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Overindulgence Poems - Poems about Overindulgence

Overindulgence Poems - Examples of all types of poems about overindulgence to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for overindulgence.
Premium Member Patricks Tale
...Saint Patrick died on March 17th. So we celebrate the day with green and drink. Patrick, was kidnapped to Ireland as a slave, a condition he never fully forgot or forgave. Patty (as he was kn......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, eulogy, history, holiday, horror,
Form: Rhyme



Gluttony Takes No Prisoners
...Gluttony takes no prisoners, And leaves nothing behind to grow, Except the need for more. Gluttony unchecked will end our planets usefulness, But not our usefulness, In helping Gluttony get to......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, abuse, addiction, allusion, drug,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member What Is Real
... Scriptures speak to us in riddles Relying upon esoteric symbols They may be well intentioned But it’s time this truth is mentioned That addressing mind, invoking fear Guilt of imagin......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, religion, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Lingering Glimpses
...Tentativeness has become pure permanence. Overindulgence turn true to life temperance... Boulders resemble icebergs of sturdy snow rocks, Bonfire looks like lively long burning lava blocks... So......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Give a Fig
...To aid the celebration’s overindulgence of snow and damp, sugar and fat, serve a cornucopia of felicitous fiber and its vitamin rush— whirligig of walnuts and crisp cranberries, Honeycris......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, celebration, fruit, health, holiday,
Form: Alliteration



Its Christmas
...The sleepy eyes, the excited cries, the whoops and hollers and the early rise. The stampede downstairs, the jumping on chairs, the ooh's and aah's and the wide eyed stares. The tearing of ......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, celebration, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Sweets
...sweets after the war in Norway, there were little in the way of sweets and what we could buy was rationed. But all was not lost, my mother melted sugar in a frying pan when the sugar became li......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, confidence, father son,
Form: Blank verse
A Mother's Cry
...Why, oh why can't I deny That the ones I love Are causing my soul's hope to die, But will you ever see it from my point of view Or will you always consider my treasures Were stored up for your......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, beauty, cry, earth, earth
Form: Light Verse
The Prodigal Son
...The Prodigal Son Why do babies leave home at such a young age? Like premature hatchlings falling from the nest before their wings are even capable of flight, only to succumb to the wildness of nat......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, 12th grade, age, care,
Form: Free verse
Sleepwalking
...Existing in chaos, mind’s fog World of haze, devoid of color Mindless drone, autopilot Going through the motions as if Sleepwalking Through the dense gloom, the gray horizon seen In a daze, the......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, depression, lost, sad,
Form: Free verse
Valentine For My Ex
...Subconscious thought periodically drops you into my cotton candy dream world. The FM dial drizzles my mind with syrupy sweet remnants of the past. I bite through the chewy nougat of what-could-......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, addiction, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Succor For Winter's Sabotage
...Spring mix sprinkled with balsamic and fig A whirligig of walnuts and crisp cranberries Décor’s sweet dawn of strawberries A fork and buds to taste At first so cold then so warm someh......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, food, health, winter,
Form: Free verse
I'M a Junkie
...Addicted to somethin’ My thoughts no longer own A fish tank full of submarines Swimming schools of piranhas Waking up soaking wet Sharks swimming in my sweat Sleeping on the cold floor Pet......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, addiction, life,
Form: Rhyme
Grand King
...When I lay down on my deathbed, Remember me…remember me forevermore When I give in to silent slumber, Don’t grieve for me… I’m in God’s hand – A pleasant placement that I adore When I wake u......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, beauty, courage, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Work In Progress
...I don't have to be a monk, tucked away on some far off mountain, to feel the profound joy of contemplation. Nor do I have to be a party animal to laugh at ridiculous jokes, during game night in the ......Read the rest...
Categories: overindulgence, me,
Form: Free verse

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