Advil Poems | Examples

Long to Amaze

The clock is ticking, and thoughts race through the haze,
Three minutes to write, and I long to amaze.
Glancing around for something to jump at me,
Jumbled thoughts swarm; nothing I can see.

Fifty-two seconds—how fast time flies,
Now pressure mounts as my mind’s tries to be wise.
A big blank, a writer’s cramp, and still nothing clear,
But sunlight shines through the patio, near.

I pause to admire its yellow and red,
Bright as my thoughts, full speed ahead.
The clock ticks on, but beauty holds me still—
The buzzing of the buzzer breaks my reverie; I might need an Advil.
I turn it off, smooth my cover,
And wonder if I’ll ever recover.

Stung

They surrounded me 
With utter hatred 
Flying in sting
Sting yellow jacket 
Pain and swelling 
Filled my hands
Oh what burning 
These brilliant yet 
Barbaric creatures
Can inflict upon a soul
My innocent composure 
Was just trying to fix
Rotten wood 
Devious yellow striped
Whipper smackers 
Of ill will do they know?
Obviously or they would 
Be equipped with 
Some other form
Of defense by design
They say they can
Remember faces
Well two weeks ago
I filled their humble
Cantankerous abode
With foam sealant
Obviously today I
Thought I was safe
Little did I know 
Pelted with flying
Carnivorous yellow
And black hellraisers’
They must have 
Remembered me
Thank God for advil
And calamine lotion 
The war will finish 
Tonight at dusk 
When my wasp 
And hornet killer
Shall take back 
My home.

Kill the Shrill

there was a young man from Seville
whose wife's voice was chillingly shrill
	he said please shut up
	he’d more than enough
sending him looking for advil!

(caveat: no endorsement of product intended)

Iron

Sunday did not pan out,
an iron faith faltered;
events planned
wandered off like drunken sheep.
It was the Advil,
it was the insomnia,
it was not enough iron in my soul.

Speaking of which, my stools
are obsidian artifacts;
a consequence of iron therapy.

The day got no better,
the drunk sheep returned all at once,
tin replaced iron,
anemic confusions swirled
my spirit grew pale.

Within me
body bugs binged
on iron
while the blood dieted.

Sunday smelts to Monday
a peaceful time,
my inner ghost is recovering,
sheep are grazing.

I suck upon nuts
and bolts
make plans,
iron-out
future road bumps.

Instead of 222 Choose

yup two twenty two's
used to take four at one time
next came tylenol

then x y and z
from pharmacies deepest seas
thought i'd tried 'em all

now the cure is advil
in the pocket or aleeve
in my wallets sleeve

headaches just a pain
sometimes yes they're overboard
but sanity gains

through long years that teach
life's like that and i've wondered
"write home!....about what?"


stan sand

Pain

was that an ache
or a pain
hold on a sec
here it comes again
if i had 
to give it a name
it definitely
would be a pain 
now to guess
where it comes from
up or down
back to front
in or out 
out to lunch
points in-between
is my hunch
can it be helped 
with advil
or do i need 
something stronger still
to try and take
the pain to nill
or at least 
bend it's will
this ache that i 
now know as pain
that makes its way
into my brain
that is the best 
at playing games
disappears 
shows up again
it's such an ache
to deal with pain

Sprinter

My headache is a sprinter
And my Advil likes to trot,
But I'm a desperate sucker
So I give it one more shot.

The finish line approaches,
As I am well aware.
I'd hoped for a conclusion
Like the tortoise and the hare.

Alas, though, it's the headache
That has got the Advil beat
And I will chalk it up to yet
Another sad defeat.

Prescription

My headache was a killer;
I was overdue for lunch.
Two hours at the iPhone store
Had wearied me a bunch.

The remedy was simple, though 
(Much more so than the phone) – 
Two Advil with some water
And a Shake Shack custard cone.

The flavor was a favorite
And the wait was not too long.
In just a flash I felt that
Not a thing at all was wrong.

So here is my prescription
When a headache makes you groan – 
Take some Advil for your head
And for your soul, an ice cream cone!

Toothache

Tortures the nerve constantly 
Ongoing severe painful throb
Only abstraction is the cure
This pain is worse than labor pain
Horrendous sharp electric shocks,
And advil is just a temporary fix
Can't sleep at all
Hurt all night long
Eating food is not an option 


Alexis Y
08-19-16


* Author's- May not be writing for a while due to bad toothaches.

Paperbacks and Coke

PAPERBACKS AND COKE 

Two partners in crime, my love affairs…
Bookmarked pages dumped on my soft bed
An urge to roam among fays and lords,
With visions of despair or triumph
Knowing insomnia is the nemesis;
While Advil cannot comfort night’s plea
A hubris …firing my imagination.

While leafing through chapters, I find relief
From another quirk; an ally so sweet…
Oh,cold fixes of Coke Zero quench
This need to satisfy all day’s thirst,
Eluding water therapy…how bland
How tasteless when hero and villain
Begin a venture of mighty feat;
Jittery, hand reaches for the next soda
As my brain excrete adrenaline…
With paperbacks and Coke at 3 am,
I conquer twilight’s watch, quite drained!

But life is short, my love affairs agree;
Did I include the M&M’s cravings?



For rob carmack, A Vice You Love
11/21/2015

Headache

Little hammers tapping
In the space behind my eyes
Warn me that there’s more to come
As pain intensifies.

It isn’t quite a migraine – 
Likely it’s induced by stress – 
Yet that knowledge gives no comfort
Nor does it hurt any less.

Advil often takes the edge off
By providing quick relief;
There are times, though, such a respite’s 
Non-existent or too brief.

Headaches all my life have plagued me
So I know that it will fade,
But ‘til then there’s no escaping
All those hammers on parade.

Twelve Days of Cursemas

On the twelfth day of Christmas
My true love sent to me:
Twelve lotus pinching,
Eleven surgical gauzes,
Ten boxes of advil,
Nine cheating photos,
Eight tissue rolls,
Seven colorful beehives,
Six facebook dislikes
Five red sea snakes,
Four French novels
Three black roses
Two sleeping pills
And a pink round coffin.



(c) Glenn Sentes

Doc, These Pills Are Killin' Me

Seems each time I visit my doc he recommends more pills for my health!

I'm not sure they're effective but this I know, they're depletin' my wealth!

And with all the side effects, I'm really concerned about my early doom!

"He expired from excessive medications!" might aptly be etched upon my tomb!

The list is endless - Diuretics, Beta Blockers, Nexium, Advil and Tylenol,

Alpha Blockers, Vitamin D, Zantac, Zocor, Micardis and a bit of Timolol,

Carisoprodol, Hydrocholorothiazide, Alphagan, Moltrin and Fosamax,

Hydroxyzine, Caltrate, Phillips Milk of Magnesia and some Atarax!

The black-box warnings say I could suffer everything from dehydration,

To blurred vision, dizziness, diahrea and a serious case of constipation!

My Pa seldom saw a doc and lived to the ripe old age of ninety-four!

He survived by sippin' SSS Blood Tonic and usin' horse linamint for

His aches and pains and other such stuff peddled by the Watkins Man!

I may toss the bottles and use his home-remedies to increase life's span!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Break Up Part Two

Pain kills
I wish I could take Advil.
Your lips I still feel.
My heart is broken
Your gone,is this a dream or is This real.
We had plans, what's the deal.
I'm gonna love you better than he will.
I'm gonna love you until.
Your name on my heart start to peal.
I got it tat because I thought this was for real-Mario Perez

My Third Eye

My third eye is
Stuck with the unfortunate view
Of the brass band that connects the two spheres of my glasses.  
I take Advil for the head-aches.

Closing it doesn't work, I've realized.
When I close the middle eye the left and right want to close, too.
My face then becomes a mad-house of shuddering lids, like a giant sleepy baby,
I stumble through my days blinking and bonking into things and people. 

I'm a little better at mastering the new eye every day, though.
Ever since it appeared between my eyebrows,
That day at the cave's mouth,
When I released my spirit from my body.

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