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StitchesStitches
A wound, deep and wide.
Gaping, Ragged, Bleeding...
Cover with the cloth of
False Smiles.
Cover with the cobweb gauze of
Empty Sympathy.
Clamp it shut with fingers of
Chemical Laughter.
Hold it together with shaky hands of
Liquid pain relief.
...
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Categories:
addiction, depression, grief, health,
Form: Free verse
The fixNervous hesitation
The fix is close
But scared there chasing
Shaky hands that
Cant hold
Times touching
I'm being impatient
There vein awaits
Blood is craving
My high is in
Pushing in
Im free again
On my way
Too Never Land
I've...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, allusion, blue,
Form: I do not know?
Thoughts on lifeLife is so strange,
Nothing stays the same.
Everything change,
But who to blame?
It is like a game
Where you lose,
Before you gain
And to win you have to face the fearful rain.
The closest people you need, go away
When you...
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Categories:
abortion, addiction, adventure, allusion,
Form: ABC
Burning
So you find your light down there in the dark, down there the light burns for you so bright.
You feel the warmth of the cold street light where rain finds the tears you cry.
Sharp edged...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Beacons of hopeThere are people who are beacons of hope,
Who keep bitterness at bay,
Despite all that comes their way,
Each and every day.
Of course they feel anger,
Despair, sadness, and loneliness,
And want to scream out loud,
But bitterness they keep...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Romanticism
trees breeze - pleasesat one night
back in the fifties...
on a window sill
and watched...
hurricane hazel
snap a large tree...
across the road
in the morning...
we walked about
a hundred yards...
on the sidewalk
torn by uprooted...
trees and washed
out by heavy rains...
an unforgot-ton of
3d memory ease...
stan...
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Categories:
addiction, storm,
Form: Free verse
Infantile Poetry Soup, Part 10Behind these words are words, word words
Words, words, words, words,...
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Categories:
1st grade, addiction,
Form: Free verse
22-5-2024I’m not amongst them
You’d think I’d been taken along with the breeze
I’m not so fussed
The stem doesn’t typically part with the leaves
In relations we trust
Why so quick to condemn then?...
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Categories:
addiction, bible, religion,
Form: Free verse
Silence reigns supreme in my reichSilence reigns supreme in my reich
No don (except me)
doth trumpet within the aborted
barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm,
I annexed courtesy manifest destiny,
which peoples now inhabiting said jurisdiction
circumscribed by following coordinates -
Latitude: 40° 16' 22.20"...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
WHEN I WAS A LOVERIn my young life I loved,
In my young life I was loved,
Love at the time was given.
Love at the time was born,
Love at the time, was part of life,
When I was a lover I was...
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Categories:
addiction, black love,
Form: Free verse
Just one more beer
Time passes slowly when the mind is clear
But when the mind gets muddled, like mint in a jar,
There never seems enough liquor by far
And you tell yourself just one more beer
To...
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Categories:
addiction, dark, drink, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Soldier PITFALL-Cowboy Oh-boy
Combat Kit Kat
Rapid Salad
Baseball pitfall
Soldier Dozier
5/20/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2024
...
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Categories:
addiction, analogy, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Footle
Karwa Sach: Dhan Aur RishteU gujarna ab raaste pe badla badla sa lagta hai
Wo najariyan logo ka ab kuch kehta hua rahta hai
Pata nahi kuy ab rishtedar ijjat dene lage hai
Wo dost jo yaad tak nahi krte the aaj...
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Categories:
addiction, birthday, change, family,
Form: Rhyme
An ode to a wounded childO tender soul, o innocence defiled,
What cruelties did your youth upend?
Tormented by she who should cherish her child,
Instead her addictions made her your fiend.
Those eyes that should have beamed with a mother's love,
Grew cold and...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Since English language my mother tongue, no surpriseSince English language my mother tongue, no surprise...
etymology encurtains, encompasses,
and encapsulates healthy fixation
why I can spend countless hours
engrossed with printed material
courtesy select magazines or books,
plus aiming to craft satisfactory
poems or prose as an avocation
to share...
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Categories:
addiction, analogy, books, dream,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Addiction Poems
Definition | What is Addiction in Poetry?
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