Anodyne Poems - Poems about Anodyne

A rebuttal to Lord Tennyson's famous lines of 'In Memoriam' ~ "It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Please tell me there's a healing anodyne, some kind of mythical enlightenment, a cure capable of extinguishing the flames of grief burning deep within my heart. It's a fire I cannot douse or smother. If...

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Please tell me there's a healing anodyne, some kind of mythical enlightenment, a cure capable of extinguishing the flames of grief burning deep within my heart. It's a fire I cannot douse or smother. If there is a balm, something known to man, I beseech you, bathe me in its pacifying waters before my heartache drives me insane. Cleanse the malignancy...

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I have learned in the reclining chair, while the dentist mined deep veins of decay, how to transfer pain. The needled anodyne of novocaine is inadequate to allay the harrowing ache he engenders there. But not even by bending fingers until they pop or stabbing nails into the tenderest flesh can I get the dedicated ache to stop. Nor did my visit to another...

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"Denmother, this forlorn morn I'll be without Her scorn.. Gone from Her deceptive songs, Never again shall I do wrongs!" Seventh summer Moon arose, My life drawing to a close and sleep with daemon kin, A silver halo above my grin. There She stood; an Angel tarred Ringed by silver as the maypole barred, Bewinged like the horizon at autumn's dusk Clad in black, Cruella's orgasmic...

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I feel you inside me As blood races to my brain Screaming your name. You burn through me like an acid flow And everything I know is left in ashes. You move me to extremes, Out of the in-between Were sadness lies just behind the eyes, Into the realm of sound and substance. I feel you inside me As I come to the...

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