Addiction Villanelle Poems

Its all so destroying,
Clear as broad daylight,
We pretend not to witness a horrendous sight.

Self-sabotage, addiction, hatred,
Neglection, stubbornness, negativity
Its all so destroying.   

We see...

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Before the carbon dioxide, is a breath worth taking 
We'd be stranded without the pointed fingers of our finest locators 
But even hell frozen over...

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If I had a dying wish
Your pain would exist no more
All the agony would ease, diminish 


The withdrawals would quickly finish
Hoping you'll remember what you...

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Among the unfortunates in life I’ve known
Are some who’ve slipped between the cracks,
Most are they who have their wild oats sown.

Practices in adolescence still make...

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It's done minute by minute which adds up to 
An hour.
I feel your pain.
Don't give up you have the power
To give up these addictions that...

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A person sits down, figures out the position 
Of the planets, and the stars
At the exact time of one's birth to do a
Forecast under their...

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I sigh through dear retirement of a beloved pastor.
Ah, zeal of crossroads drove an interconnected strand.
Oh,goodness, how my initiative has flustered.

If we communicated then we...

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I am traveling lite.
Trying to get away from terror, 
Bewilderment, frustration, and despair.
I left my life behind as I travel
Through the night.
It hides all the...

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These half score years for me have been a war,
My soul a broken bone reset in place,
The girl He made was meant for so much...

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This feeling is common
I am frequently told
If in Rome, I should be a Roman.

These feelings for you are uncommon
Although I try to be bold
For I'm...

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Alcoholics and Druggies die every day
That's the chant.
Their vice is a monster they endure at first, then regret,
Then fully embrace until life just slips away.
Their...

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A life with drugs and alcohol is not hard to achieve.
You do not live in a fable.
You know drugs do deceive 
The lies they weave
Make...

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I loved you so much it hardly mattered,
Blinded by your million, shiny shards of glass,
Before we laid our love to waste, bruised and battered.

I failed,...

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Poem is © Dana

A Pawn of the Devil’s Deals

He kills, he gives life, he injures, he heals;
there are none who escape from his hands.
Surrender to...

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Villanelle: Wander not into a land where the indigene’s indolent

Wander not into a land where the indigene’s indolent
Likely as not the country will be run...

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