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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
FateShe spoke to me today.
Her maudlin phrases poured out of her like liquor.
Her cup half empty, and her eyes half closed, she wept.
For the knowledge of her faults and her flaws, for the knowledge...
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Categories:
addiction, mother,
Form: Free verse
Calls My NameThe orb calls to me, beckons breast beat,
blood in veins permeates, face red with heat,
as I asphyxiate, am dominated, reach climax.
Each time lustful, more powerful, sensual.
I crave this fix, my only reason to exist,
addicted to...
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Categories:
addiction, cute love, dark,
Form: Free verse
UntitledFor there are things I've done to you
A reflection of me
But let the thought alone
Let it be
Oh, I wish it was
A yearn in my heart
A smell, like I'm drunk
The...
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Categories:
addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Broken promisesPromise me your hands will reach out
Resilient attachment starts in childhood
When the brain has colic outside the womb
A mother’s unconditional love soothes worries
When a birthday missed slices the cord
Like two neurons missing a connection
Like a...
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Categories:
addiction, father, mother, mother
Form: Free verse
You All Hold The KeyIn this cell is where it all grows
The fear
The hope
The lost
The dream
The success
The grace
The signature
The fall
The race
The plan
It all grows here
Inside you
Inside me
Inside us
The balance shifts
The weight heavy
The cross awaits
Time the judgement
In this place
We are...
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Categories:
addiction, anxiety, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse
Consuming FireLicking my wounds.
Recovering from the pain.
Is it supposed to
feel this way?
Empty, cold, and dejected.
Ashamed of not enjoying it.
Radiating heat filling me up
from my pelvic floor.
Somehow, I am wanting more.
More of the pain
without it there’s
no...
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Categories:
addiction, body, dark, drug,
Form: Prose
if the kids are good they get to watch a frame of snookeri nominate green
foul
the referee didn't hear me
the opponent accuses me of the same
he therefore,
can -
no longer -
use my extension
in fact i'm not using it either
i'm off home to
throw cue balls
at
the
moon...
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Categories:
addiction, sports,
Form: Free verse
Lovely dummbie boy
,, Bliblablubb",
,, bliblablaaa",
at 3o'clock in the morning,
shadows shed my eyes,
,, maybe I should've listened to dad",
since he always said,
dark ruines your eyes.
The days were funny made,
though indeed I need to thank the World for the...
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Categories:
addiction,
Form: ABC
The PredatorDenying reality not to feel guilty,
doesn't mean being free of misery;
he sits alone, he grumbles, he detests
the pathetic glances they flash at him;
he fills his tall glass to the brim...
and spit out all the...
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Categories:
addiction, anger, death, emotions,
Form: Lyric
The PredatorDenying reality not to feel guilty,
doesn't mean being free of misery;
he sits alone and grumbles, he detests
the pathetic glances they flash at him!
He fills his tall glass to the brim...
and spitss out all the untold...
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Categories:
addiction, anger, death, emotions,
Form: Lyric
The dayA day full of cigarettes
A day full of riding,
Oh what a calmness
My face was full with dirt
And mind with lust,
I'm alone here
Like nobody else,
Living every hour
I was mine
Cause it's only mine and mine..????
...
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Categories:
addiction, allegory, anxiety, black
Form: Free verse
A Distant Goodbye
Make changes to break the cycle
Be mindful, always aware
Never create a fearful unsafe home
Always protect and care
Fear as his dads car pulled into the driveway
Watching the removal of his dads belt
Knowing what was coming next
Not...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, change, family,
Form: Rhyme
a female worldThe female world
There is a new low in the Trump hatred
by the political class, a new court case
has turned out to be a titillating show
where a prostitute appears as having
the time of her life, as she...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, angst,
Form: Burlesque
Bob the BuilderYou apologize over and over,
Yet do it again cold shoulder.
In church every Sunday saying you’re a “righteous” man,
But at home you’re the devil’s right hand man.
It’s crazy how your so smart and calculated with...
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Categories:
addiction, anger, childhood, dark,
Form: Narrative
Specific Types of Addiction Poems
Definition | What is Addiction in Poetry?
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