I’m an addict
There! I’ve said it..
to break it’s power over me
I apply a tourniquet
squeeze tight…..
searching…..
for my sweet relief
From Dickenson to Bukowski
words fire their way
through my soul
I close my eyes
losing myself to the bliss
©Vivian Zems
(#Quadrille)
All The Way~ Charles Bukowski
Smell The Coffee 
March 12, 2018 at 8:26 pm
Ooh, nice in the back door poem!
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March 12, 2018 at 8:40 pm
Thank you😊
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March 12, 2018 at 8:48 pm
Thank you!
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March 13, 2018 at 1:20 pm
🙂
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March 12, 2018 at 8:29 pm
Fellow addict here, Vivian. Love this.
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March 12, 2018 at 8:40 pm
Thanks De! I know I’m amongst friends here….we all do the same drug😊
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March 12, 2018 at 8:44 pm
We are all addicts… and a Quadrille on Monday is my perfect high
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March 13, 2018 at 1:24 pm
Excellent!
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March 12, 2018 at 8:50 pm
Me too me too 💖💖 this is lovely Vivian! 😊
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March 13, 2018 at 1:19 pm
Thanks, Sanaa!
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March 12, 2018 at 9:04 pm
I know exactly what you mean, Viv! I missed my fix last week but made up for it with baby cuddles!
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March 13, 2018 at 1:19 pm
If you didn’t have baby cuddles, you would have had serious withdrawal symptoms..lol
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March 12, 2018 at 9:20 pm
Pleasure from words can be addicting, keeping me from pleasurable walks.
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March 13, 2018 at 1:19 pm
Ah, 2 pleasurable things…lucky you!
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March 12, 2018 at 10:29 pm
Brilliant take on the prompt!
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March 12, 2018 at 11:33 pm
Thanks, Jilly!
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March 12, 2018 at 10:38 pm
What a lovely addiction, though, to be addicted to words and books. I probably shouldn’t, but I had to chuckle at the addiction recovery ads WordPress posted below your poem.
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March 12, 2018 at 11:31 pm
Lol! WordPress is just trying to help me out :).. I’m listening to audio poetry and I’m likening it to a drug 🙂
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March 12, 2018 at 10:47 pm
addiction of words…beautifully expressed !
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March 12, 2018 at 11:17 pm
Thank you 🙂
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March 12, 2018 at 11:49 pm
with such sweet words, I woo 🙂
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March 13, 2018 at 1:14 pm
Thank you! 🙂
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March 13, 2018 at 1:34 am
Love your concept! Poetry words like heroin flowing through your the veins of your mind giving your the greatest natural high!
Dwight
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March 13, 2018 at 1:13 pm
And a cheap but quality high too!
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March 13, 2018 at 1:38 pm
The best addiction of all!
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March 13, 2018 at 1:41 pm
🙂 !
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March 13, 2018 at 5:48 am
Very nice – and thanks for the cool clip. You can’t argue with Tom O’Bedlam’s basso now can you? 🙂
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March 13, 2018 at 1:12 pm
Thank you! That bass is sublime. With a voice like that…I’m ready to propose marriage!
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March 13, 2018 at 9:32 pm
Well done! and I enjoyed the video reading as well 🙂
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March 13, 2018 at 9:34 pm
Thank you! That voice is so mesmerising.
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March 13, 2018 at 9:59 pm
It is! The voice adds a whole new feeling to the poem that my head couldn’t have created.
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March 14, 2018 at 8:11 am
🙂
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March 13, 2018 at 10:27 pm
I think all readers and writers can relate to this Vivian!
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March 14, 2018 at 8:11 am
I’m sure! It’s a compulsion:)
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March 13, 2018 at 11:19 pm
Thanks for hooking me up. Ah.
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March 14, 2018 at 1:32 am
No problem…anytime 🙂
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March 14, 2018 at 12:09 am
Yes, I am a word-a-holic too! I think you are in good company at dVerse. The best part is that we don’t have to kick this habit.
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March 14, 2018 at 1:32 am
You’re right. And thank goodness…an addiction to keep!
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March 14, 2018 at 12:30 am
That’s an addiction it’s OK to keep. (Well, I would say that, wouldn’t I? Being a fellow-addict.)
Looking at the title of your blog, at first I imagined you’d be writing about a coffee addiction! (I have that one too.)
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March 14, 2018 at 1:29 am
Ah Rosemary…I suffer from both, too. Glad you liked it 🙂
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March 14, 2018 at 12:36 am
PS Yes, the vid is superb as well.
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March 14, 2018 at 1:30 am
Thank you! I got hooked on that, too!
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March 14, 2018 at 12:49 am
kaykuala
words fire their way
through my soul
I close my eyes
losing myself to the bliss
The beauty and attraction of creative writing can never be done away with when the passion builds up! You got it right there Vivian!
Hank
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March 14, 2018 at 1:28 am
Thanks Hank- glad it resonated with you 🙂
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March 14, 2018 at 5:49 pm
A nice addiction, Vivian. My bod is addicted to opiods. I’ve not done anything crazy on them but have driven a few times, bad (I go to sleep while stopped at green lights, etc (. When I’ve had one I tend to be more aggressive playing games, like “so what if i/we lose?”
Probably I won’t take any more until my next surgery. I don’t tell my doctors.
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March 14, 2018 at 7:43 pm
Wow! Take it easy on those things😮
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March 15, 2018 at 12:31 am
Come on in, little girl, we are all addicts here. The pen is our needle, the words, our rush.
Love this, Vivian!
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March 15, 2018 at 3:29 pm
Nicely put!! Thank you😊
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March 15, 2018 at 4:07 am
Oh, yes.. I’m an addict also!
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March 15, 2018 at 3:27 pm
😆
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May 3, 2018 at 3:40 pm
https://addictedfitnessblog.wordpress.com/
Started writing about addiction
Hope you like it 😃
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May 3, 2018 at 4:04 pm
Well done! It doesnt help me though, because- like my poem said- I’m addicted to writing and poetry. All the best though!
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May 3, 2018 at 4:06 pm
Thanks a lot. Loved your work.😃
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May 3, 2018 at 4:11 pm
And you keep yours up…. it’s serious stuff and I’m sure will help many people.
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May 17, 2018 at 8:16 am
Shiiiiit.
I’m almost a year sober, but I’m still addicted to bukowski.
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May 17, 2018 at 8:44 am
Lol! I have no plans to ‘get clean’ 🙂 Thanks for dropping by!
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May 17, 2018 at 8:46 am
Girl, I don’t blame ya lmao
I started reading his stuff in high school and I doubt I’ll stop devouring his words any time soon
And of course, ma’am! :’)
xoxo
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May 17, 2018 at 8:59 am
🙂
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June 6, 2018 at 4:45 am
Thanks so much
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June 6, 2018 at 6:34 pm
😊
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February 11, 2019 at 11:13 pm
That was wonderful. I loved it
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February 11, 2019 at 11:15 pm
Thank you 🙂
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