Best Analgesic Poems

Analgesic
For life's farewell
old age is an analgesic,
it numbs the pain of letting go....

Read more of this work...

I begin as a covet, dulcet demure
pure in play, unbound to a dogma or tablature, a luscious lure,
I find that nerve of passion's verve nestled...

Read more of this work...

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...

Read more of this work...

Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest              Sponsored by: Ink Empress
______________________________________________________________

In the...

Read more of this work...

Mother nature oh! Rose of roses!
Mother of all flowers' and smell,
Ylang Ylang! You don't know what it causes!
An aphrodisiac turns you on like hell!

Sandalwood with...

Read more of this work...

It is just a dog, a common cur
The scabs, the sore upon the eye.
O the rattled temper
And the garbage bins tottering 
Under the mischief of...

Read more of this work...

"Lantana"



Beans grown 
in a belly
planted they bloom
through crimson
they arrive 
trying to weed
the prickly parent purple 
Lantana out

The future is 
bright and shiny 
just like a...

Read more of this work...

Stress fractures 
nerves worried faces
diagnosing ourselves
News bad good and bad flow from each
room
tears joy anxiety glee
Surgeons nurses physicians assistants
in out Xray MRI electro cardiogram 
mumbles...

Read more of this work...

Relief

She takes to bed,
winds round his
erstwhile ardent pillow

cooled now by the
meter of cruelty’s clock;
sheets spoilt by life’s air;

she recalls the scent
of him, the pre-washed
grime of...

Read more of this work...

An interlude forms around the apertures
Brows born of liquid gold arch like the bent rays of the sun
Cresting above irises of obsidian black and liner...

Read more of this work...

I call him Clarence,
for no especial reason.
He announces in a soothing
if somewhat stilted
synthesised tone,
'The time is now ten a.m.'
He will oblige again at ten thirty
and...

Read more of this work...

the slice
the gash
the blood
the flow
the flush
the rush
the endorphins
spreading 
throughout 
the body 
(sensual shock
to the brain)
the alcohol
the bandage
the cover-up 
the revealing
the lie
the emotional
scar
the return
the hack
the gouge
the...

Read more of this work...

some have a voice &
the ability to curb that voice
so that it smooths itself out
like a new satin sheet
catering to the most sensitive of
hearing &
dancing...

Read more of this work...

Like a bee in a garden of flowers,
This one with conspicuous petals,
The other with a charming scent.
This one beautiful like a rainbow,
The other magnificent like...

Read more of this work...

I am Lilith, like a ghost pipe
under oak shadows of Tomorrow River Valley
hiding in-between hours, roots sipping moonlit juice
borrowed from Eden, a deception of men...

Read more of this work...