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| Searching... Subject: SUBSTANCE ABUSE Matches Found: 46 ADDICT, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: He's given up booze Last Line: Hunger that gives %him no peace Subject(s): Substance Abuse BABY STEP, by ELOISE K. PODRAZA Poem Source First Line: Mamma's sad, veiled eyes Last Line: Instead, elate in this moment %when I take one more step away Subject(s): Substance Abuse BOTTLE, by MARJORIE J. BEYER Poem Source First Line: Once you were my friend Last Line: I will not call you friend again; %you lied Subject(s): Substance Abuse BROKEN GIRL, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seconal and wine I lived on the street Subject(s): Alcoholics & Alcoholism; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Substance Abuse Recovery; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin CLOCK IN, by JAMES G. REDFERN Poem Source First Line: When I touched %the gauge Last Line: ...Just another day on the job. %--clock in Subject(s): Substance Abuse COCA NUT'S UGLY TRUTH, by BOB D. BUCK Poem Source First Line: You little bitch %ripping out the pride and self-appreciation Last Line: Grand mal %respiratory death %you little bitch cocaine Subject(s): Substance Abuse DENIAL, by BRIAN ELLICKSON Poem Source First Line: In the future will be love Last Line: In the future will be the face %that I can show to the world Subject(s): Substance Abuse DOUBLE SIXTEEN, by STEPHEN SEDDON Poem Source First Line: I am double sixteen Last Line: And it looks like %feels like %I will live %forever Subject(s): Substance Abuse EACH DAY: EACH MOMENT, by SUSAN KLINGMAN Poem Source First Line: Alone in the dark fighting demons Last Line: Each day is a fight. %each moment a struggle Subject(s): Substance Abuse ELEGY ON A QUID OF TOBACCO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lay before me on the close-grazed grass Last Line: Thou didst thy duty, man can do no more. Subject(s): Duty; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Substance Abuse; Temptation; Addictive Behavior EMMA, by CHUCK KRAMER Poem Source First Line: When I was drying out in the hospital Last Line: Faded into the darkness with the pain that %ached in the echoes of her empty heart Subject(s): Substance Abuse EPITAPH FOR A VETERAN OF THE DRUG WAR, by WILL CASEY Poem Source First Line: He never licked it Last Line: He lived fast %died young %and left a seventy pound corpse Subject(s): Substance Abuse EVEN STILL, by W. E. HARVEL Poem Source First Line: Now - even still... %after all you've taken from me Last Line: But just for today %it's not enough to take you back Subject(s): Substance Abuse EYES BELIEVE, BUT THE LEFT BRAIN WANTS TO KNOW, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes believe whatever they take in Last Line: Smoke collecting from both ears again Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Smoking; Substance Abuse FOG, by JEFFREY SPAHR-SUMMERS Poem Source First Line: The fog has cleared now Last Line: Laid out like the yellow brick road %and I know this is the way I must go Subject(s): Substance Abuse GENERATIONS, by LINDA K. MILLER Poem Source First Line: Today, my mother is seventy-one Last Line: They love me, but-- %god, I'm so much like her Subject(s): Substance Abuse GRIEVING, by CHUCK KRAMER Poem Source First Line: When her husband died - the Last Line: Eyes never dared to condemn his %whiskey dance with the %devils in his soul Subject(s): Substance Abuse HE WALKED OUT. I COULDN'T SHOUT, by BEVERLY JOHANSSON Poem Source Last Line: Recovery! Serenity! %life for me - now full and free Subject(s): Substance Abuse HELP! AL-ANON NEEDED HERE, by CATHLEEN SCHANDELMEIER Poem Source First Line: Talkin' with my boss Last Line: But I don't want it %no more %I can't stand it %no more Subject(s): Substance Abuse HITCHHIKER, by CHUCK KRAMER Poem Source First Line: She always %needed a ride Last Line: Her heart %and blinded %her cold %highway %hungry eyes Subject(s): Substance Abuse HOW THE HEALING TAKES PLACE, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the face changes, the cloud Last Line: Stones from entrances Subject(s): Substance Abuse; Healing IN MY MIND I SEE LIQUOR AS A LADY, by CATHLEEN SCHANDELMEIER Poem Source First Line: Tempting ;you with her Last Line: I'd change into alchol %just to be a part of you Subject(s): Substance Abuse LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, by CHUCK KRAMER Poem Source First Line: My son %sneers at me with that Last Line: Kissed my %lips to the %sterility of %addiction Subject(s): Substance Abuse LIVING LIFE'S EDGE, by THOMAS R. MASH Poem Source First Line: Sirens blare %in the dead of the night. Mothers stir; fathers Last Line: Keep running %faster, faster to your supplier... %cause you're always running on life's edge! Subject(s): Substance Abuse LOVE POEM TO STEVEN, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Rust on the razor Last Line: It's a time of scraps, %cold bonds Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Substance Abuse MAGGOT, by JANICE MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I've got a solid gold maggot with obsidian eyes Last Line: It is too hard to tear the messle and the muddle apart Subject(s): Substance Abuse MARIJUANA NOTATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How sick I am Subject(s): Substance Abuse; Addictive Behavior MOTHER, by SUZAN EREM Poem Source First Line: I wonder sometimes %if she still lies Last Line: When I take %the sip %that makes us %stink Subject(s): Substance Abuse MOTHER JUNKIE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has the shakes, thinks she's gonna die Last Line: To the east river, five blocks away Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Medicine; Substance Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Drugs, Prescription; Addictive Behavior MOTHER'S MILK & VODKA, by LES STASEY Poem Source First Line: Babies %and %old men Last Line: Cradle to the grave %the lessons %we learn %fill %us up. %some of us wait to be drained Subject(s): Substance Abuse MYSTERIOUS LIQUIDS, by JOHNNY MASIULEWICZ Poem Source First Line: Streams %streams of sun Last Line: Another 4:30 a.M. Morning %with mysterious liquids %in my bed Subject(s): Substance Abuse NIGHTTIME EUPHORIA, by JAMES G. REDFERN Poem Source First Line: Sitting in my garden Last Line: Sacrificial, %cement-laden pain. %at night, %it's euphoria Subject(s): Substance Abuse NO REPLY, by JEFFREY SPAHR-SUMMERS Poem Source First Line: Pity is a four letter word Last Line: Why you were left alone, %truthfully %it never replies Subject(s): Substance Abuse ORPHEUS PLAYS THE BRONX, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was ten (no longer Subject(s): Mothers; Substance Abuse; Childhood Memories QUITTING SMOKING, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: The phone says smoke when it rings, the radio says smoke, the tv Last Line: Cameo Subject(s): Smoking; Substance Abuse REMEMBERING BAR-HARBOR, by CYNTHIA CANNON Poem Source First Line: At times %I miss the scotch-lit afternoons Last Line: From our safe and scotch-lit harbor %through the storm-filled night, toward home Subject(s): Substance Abuse SKIP THE WORDS -- SUPPLY THE DEEDS, by CATHLEEN SCHANDELMEIER Poem Source First Line: You're so full of it Last Line: So, skip the words %supply the deeds Subject(s): Substance Abuse SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 6. ADDICTION, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: I had one wife and one dependency Last Line: Back to her. One day it followed me home Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Marriage; Substance Abuse STEPS, by WILL CASEY Poem Source First Line: Where it took me Last Line: Save your money, brother %enjoy the walk, I'm with you Subject(s): Substance Abuse STORM OF ADDICTION, by JANE ASIMUS Poem Source First Line: The lightning showsits face again Last Line: Mama, can't you see? %there's a storm raging in my heart! Subject(s): Substance Abuse THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD, PT.#2, by JAMES G. REDFERN Poem Source First Line: The stereo was on Last Line: Threw the old can out the window, %sat down at the typewriter %and wrote this poem Subject(s): Substance Abuse TOBACCO, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing in the world like it; you can tell aristotle.' Last Line: At how much it costs, think too what fun it is Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Lungs; Smells; Smoking; Substance Abuse WAGON MASTER, by JEFFREY SPAHR-SUMMERS Poem Source First Line: Grab the edge if you must Last Line: And you might chance to ride %like a sailor flying a sobering wind Subject(s): Substance Abuse WOMAN WHOSE HUSBAND CHOSE BEER, by KIM BEREZ Poem Source First Line: She used to have breasts Last Line: The shape of punctuation anymore %she slumbers %& doesn't dream Subject(s): Substance Abuse WORDS, by C. J. LAITY Poem Source First Line: The woman descends the stairs Last Line: Her words linger in his living ears %long after he finishes writing this poem Subject(s): Substance Abuse YOU AGAIN, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I'm smoking too much too many cigarettes Last Line: Every day this week and I'm glad I don't drink so there Subject(s): Fire; Smoking; Substance Abuse; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Addictive Behavior |
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