Short Opium Poems

I have a phobia for loss
I ache for the podium
A challenge is my dose
Success is my opium...

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Religion ...
opium
of the poor
And roadmap
of the forever
— lost

(1st Book Of Prayers: May, 2025)
...

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At the start of his reign
King Obama offered us 'hopium'

  At the end of days
  It felt more like opium...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Opium was his mind bridge
It took him down to Xanadu.
Just think what Ecstasy would do....

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Samuel Taylor Colleridge of some poetic intellect
sadly his health he could not protect
Opium became a daily habit
ruining hismarriage his  life quite a bit...

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What my teacher
 injected me with
While in the school
was not education

It was opium of life
That made me drunk
And with imagination
Of an eagle in the sky...

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I surf through the silks
of his opium essence
swathed in moon-swept sparks
for this love stirs in silence
a verse sealed with fervent flares...

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by Wayne Wysocki

A poppy is pretty and bright
And its juice is so far out of sight
    That the smoke in a den
    Full of dirty old men
Makes all of them high as a kite....

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A paregoric solution might be the ticket.
To making me feel more spry like a cricket.
If I could find the wonderful opium I need
I could start over like a phoenix with baby bird seed....

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A paregoric solution might be the ticket.
To making me feel more spry like a cricket.
If I could find the wonderful opium I need
I could start over like a phoenix with baby bird seed....

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> 
> Siren
> 
> He heard the siren of opium.
> 
> He'd been warned to
> 
> cover his ears.
> 
> He did not.
> 
> He follows the song still,
> 
> moons and moons later.
> 
> He never whistles.
>...

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wind whisks smoky veils
sun’s dust on spidery silk~
gossamer dreamscape

sky undresses gold 
filling the air with roses~
an opium kiss

trees adorned in brown
mirror the silent corn moon~
fallen escapade...

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I no longer await you,
nor I mark my calendar.

No more staring,
no more howling,
no more skinny dipping
in your light.

I peeled off the shine.

You are just a bitter opium
that rots in my veins
and gives me headaches....

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Previously seen in Opium dreams,
These scenes of Deja-Vu
Future reference balance beams
(The Present misconstrued)
In retrospect, I do reflect,
"Did I see the warning signs?"
Time is met with sheer suspect
As Life rewinds the past unkind...

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Gluey aftersight
here is a drunken police officer
loved by a friendless prostitute
here is Chinese opium den
taping around your eyes

Here is a boy loved by many
adored by the crowd
a lonely ballerina who 
would love to change places


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Flowing freely your ebony hair
like the night sky
scattering fragrance 


my heart clamoring in my chest
like a storm you triffle with it

your pristine glance
like a feast when you smile


my thoughts disturbed
my breath like opium
it drives me mad...

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Flowing freely your ebony hair
like the night sky
scattering fragrance 


my heart clamoring in my chest
like a storm you triffle with it

your pristine glance
like a feast when you smile


my thoughts disturbed
my breath like opium
it drives me mad...

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ominous skies of gloom
orbit through my head
obsessive while oblivious
ornery dragons and 
offspring hovering
o’er lofty castles 
obtusely perched in
opulent misty glens
of opportunistic prophecy



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on October 30, 2018...

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"28:06:42:12" OR "the red death"


hookah's pookha
hocus pocus
an opium dream
or backyard rabbit

sincerely Sinclair
habitate but not quite
suburban but a matter
of fact so i ask:

red rover red rover
come over to eat 
some crimson 
clover and 

relax...

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Beyond these dark days of ever-growing political dystopia

Social and claustrophobic phobia's 

Find something or someone to love and try to absorb that feeling like 
illicit opium 

Why

It could be the way to survive this life cycle's current pandemonium

(C) Copyright John Duffy...

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After beginning Coleridge’s dream,

    (exotic fields, great heights, in juicy Kubla-kahn),

lungs met nefarious opium pipe,

quickly rendering Samuel’s tale unremembered

via wicked Xanadu’s yawpish zephyr.


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yawpish - hungry
zephyr - a west wind...

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The climate

Is an elephant on opium
Weaned off.
Going berserk 
Throwing things around 
Tearing the
Polaris into fragments.
Hurricanes
Storms
Flooding.
Scorching summers
Arctic winters
There is no end
To the elephants
Despair.
Slim the elephant
Normal food
It will soften
Its rampage
And trumpeting....

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It may come as quite a shock
but Queen Victoria
Loved a curry on a Friday night
liked plenty of sex
and smoked pot.


Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, had 9 children together. Her Indian servant and confidant introduced her to Indian food. Taking drugs and opium were legal in such times.

P Dome. copyright 2012....

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Your kiss is laced with opium
and your eyes ablaze with fire

Gaze at me and I burn
caress me and I'm captured

I am yours
I run to you as a traveler

seeks the shade of a tree
when scorched by the sun

It is Spring
shelter me with your blanket of leaves

It is such joy to find you
where meadows are in bloom..
~...

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If love was just a picture, 
Then the frame would be the heart. 

Those who waited in faith and patience, 
Remained recluse in love. 

Love is the little hope that one's wants,
But deserts in times of needs... 

Abandoned by true love is the misery of reality,
As only those who went through knows the opium of true love....

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