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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
inceptionInception
A near accident almost run over by a train
old heart, she collapsed in my arms
wrapped her in a blanket, looked asleep
we drove thro' the long night headlights
made a temporary tunnel
If I turn the light off,...
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Categories:
abortion, absence, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
BakeMy plate is always piled
yet my fork has nothing on it,
beamed up by sensory overload
onto a different culinary planet.
Please don’t think me rude
for leaving most of each meal,
it’s simply an agreement I made
with my...
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Categories:
addiction, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Things changeMy heart is crushed
My thoughts of love vanish,
Thinking of you
Makes me weak
As if I couldn't move,
Only if u knew
...
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Categories:
absence, addiction, allusion, anger,
Form: I do not know?
Midas WellMidas Well is the final destination
Of pilgrims who are slave to their thirst.
It’s also known as a criminals’ oasis,
A palm tree-shaded den of the cursed.
Midas Well tempts the lazy and the foolish,
With hazy gas-lit visions...
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Categories:
addiction, allegory, happiness,
Form: Burlesque
Lily GardenShe is an evil blossom
the day lilly of disorder
she exhales a deadly hypnotism
Marion breathes in the heady elixir
which wallows in her eyes
those lilly stalks
are perhaps intercoursing a nostrum daily
...
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Categories:
addiction,
Form: Free verse
AddictionWhy have you plagued me?
Why have you latched on my soul not ready to leave?
What's my offense?
Why have you fought my desires to do away with you?
Why have you cried me to sleep?
Why have you...
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Categories:
addiction, anger, cry, desire,
Form: Prose
StuckIce touching the
ends of my hair.
I guess I am
no longer going
anywhere.
I thought that this
would be a fresh start.
A new beginning.
A start of something new.
But the clouds have followed
me all the way through.
DOOM! DOOM! DOOM!
My arms...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Prose
Hungry Ghosta hungry ghost greets me at the door tries to act normal though I know what he is not normal at all with...
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Categories:
addiction,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dermatillomania
Am I a freak?
I pick my skin until I bleed
It brings me peace and comfort
Google says it’s my mental health or OCD
It goes away for weeks, but when it comes back I...
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Categories:
addiction, anxiety, deep, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Addiction Poems
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