Short Sobriety Poems

  So much anxiety in our society

    Unplug, chillax, feel the sobriety
...

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Sipped one Pabst
  Sobriety lapsed
Resolve collapsed

  Resurrected
His checkered past
  His fiancé aghast
Once more, outcast...

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Sadness is the gaiety of grief- 

         gladness, the sobriety of happiness! 








 © Demetrios Trifiatis
       28 July 2020...

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Sometimes I'm afraid that I'll turn out just like you
Lost, alone, sad, drinking from my brew

Maybe if you wake up
I will see
There's still a chance for me...

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Hard headed, hard working, leader
January third's your day dear brother
Leave off the booze, clarity
Best for all, sobriety
Hot blooded bachelor needs caterer....

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Sobriety
Lucid self-possession.
Clear-headed, composed, steadied
Abstention, temperance; Carouser, lush
Staggering, tottering, gibbering.
Intoxicated high.
Drunkenness...

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For Bobby sobriety just fit the bill
But he longed for a love, his life to fulfill
He found a lady
Who's job was shady
She was a bootlegger, but he loved her still!...

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Sometimes I think
I would love you more
if I was still drinking.
And then I decipher the code:
I would love you more
if I still loved myself less....

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There once was a man who wrote poetry,
but his words caused bad notoriety.
Poems full of bad grammar,
Souper's thought he's a spammer!
But he was struggling with sobriety! 
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enclosed in their sobriety 
 strength encircles defeat 
 entwined in a world 
 of tears for fears 
 we struggle 
 remove the sealed masks 
 of denial 
 and of change 
 live free 
 from that that devours...

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20
I don’t even wanna talk
About drugs anymore
Got offered brown today
And I turned him down
Told him I don’t do that
Anymore and eyes wide
He said ok my bad
Sobriety and God
My Higher Power
Keep me safe...

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ALCOHOLIC

Annoying
Liar
Cunning
Offensive
Hopeless
Obnoxious
Loathsome
Inebriated
Crafty


6 February 2020 For the contest sponsored by Matt Caliri

(Written by a recovering alcoholic with 38 years of sobriety)...

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CLEAR THINKING

There was a time, long years ago
When I allowed the beer  to flow
My mind was foggy, thoughts impure
So I don't drink beer, I drink Ensure

	Curtis Moorman
	11 January 2019
	Celebrating 37 years of sobriety...

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How am I 
Living on
Without
The mess
That was 
My life
Seems
No tears
Left for those
Good old days
When I would
Swear to you
I was clean
But you know
And after all
That wanting
My Higher Power
Has set me free
In sobriety...

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Butterflies drift
before a man
before
the
dawning night.

Clouds retreating
beyond the veil
beyond
a
setting sun.

Ruminate long
within this space
within
this
sober sight.


(click on the pic to preview my poetry book!)...

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Sobriety
     
Somber sobering.
Sadness surpasses surprise.
Silent seclusion.

Poetry Form Ekphrasis (art inspired) Haiku with alliteration.
Inspired by Brian Strand’s Imagine Contest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat_(painting)...

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The Walk 

Long hot desert
Empty of people
Not even a camel in sight
He clutched a euro coin
In his sweaty palm
He was left handed 
 Wanted to buy 
A glass of beer
Hatless he fainted
Belly up
 Awoke at sun-down
 A date palm
Clutching a coin...

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The sobriety of others cross
Our paths in shadowed lines

Their blur, a noise, a quiet breeze
Recedes in stretching time

Small permanence of our design
That we exchange in parts

Across the cobbled stone we stride
Hard fashioned, in who we aren’t...

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As an addict, you think you are alone.
Family and friends turned their backs.
But you are all wrong.

You need to turn your lights on.
Admit to your problems.

Clear up the fog, that's clouded your mind.
Travel towards sobriety
Get back your own life!...

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Sobriety was good only in the past
For all those who are gentle, the die is cast
You reap what you sow, no more
Learn tricks of trade, all over
All the nice guys would always finish the last!


Inspired by Mark Twain's Quote: "Be good and you will be lonely."...

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Trust was broken at a young age.
Alone most of the time.
Problems in all my relationships.
Evil thoughts turned to evil plans.
Sadness surrounded me.
Turned to drugs to ease the pain.
Recovery has been brutal but life-saving.
Years of sobriety have led to happiness....

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In an era of celebrity
Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush 
First Ladies who chose progressivity --
  Nancy R. 'Just Said Yes' to sobriety
  Laura B. 'Just Said No' to illiteracy





          

              **True PROGRESS-ivity, that is: Saying NO to drugs & illiteracy...

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I am running 
out of daylight and in this 
forgotten chasm, soon 

I will meet my own 
fate to become star-blinded
But I do not mind.

My telluric heart 
is going to lose its poor
blindspots of stifling

sobriety by 
embracing your ravenskinned, 
asterisk lighted nightshade....

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The object I hold is a dream 
Some people hate it and scream 

Their being a hypocrite in humanity 
The participants in the insanity 

I refuse to believe its the real red and blue
It depicts hatred from the likes of you 

My ambition is to square up 
It took an amount of sobriety 
To finish up...

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The Retreat:  Part 3

Opening Bell

And you thought YOU had it bad
Cancer
Homelessness
Divorce
Estrangement
Family Death
Pet Death
Molestation
Rape
Depression
Sex Worker
Sex Client
Bad Taste
Bizarre Taste
You people are really ed up
Ok I am too
Let's un—-k ourselves silly
And begin.

(3/24/17)...

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