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Best Anesthetic Poems

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Premium Member Pains of Stupidity
Egotism is the anesthetic that deadens the pains of stupidity

   It lowers the shield that lets one think they have complete validity...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anesthetic, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Roll of the Dice
Started drinking fruit flavoured water now
Not the tastiest but I'll keep trying, I vow

In the winter months I always seem to gain
Inactivity is the culprit,...

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Categories: anesthetic, age,
Form: Couplet
Double Setup
Double Set Up


The first lump was the scariest in 1983.
 I had found it in the shower.
 Two other major surgeries I've already had that...

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Categories: anesthetic, cancer, health, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ouch That Hurt
Time, night, and sleep, I could not tell,
For down on the bathroom tiles, I fell
I hit my head but not so bad,
My hand, my muse...

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Categories: anesthetic, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dem Bones
Your toe bone's connected to your foot bone
That's usually how this ditty begins
Continuing on up there's your ankle bone
Commonly known as your shin

If you ever...

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Categories: anesthetic, funny,
Form: Quatrain



Angel Dust
On the street, it is known as “angel dust” colloquially.
It has a formal moniker in pharmacology.
The name is rather long, but is abbreviated to “PCP”
It...

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Categories: anesthetic, angst, health, recovery from...,
Form: Rhyme
Strangers In Peoria
I met a proper woman in a proper pub on a Monday in Peoria. It was noon, time for lunch, and we were sitting stool...

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Categories: anesthetic, break up,
Form: Prose
I Think I'M In Love
"I'm not going to say it, but my emotions are spilling and breaking, and it's you I'm chasing, forever face this, I really like you,...

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Categories: anesthetic, beautiful, beauty, best friend,
Form: Verse
Premium Member On Near Death Experiences
A woman’s spirit hovers
above an inert body that is hers.
She sees the surgeons cutting
and then sees their frantic efforts
as they try to bring her back...

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Categories: anesthetic, death,
Form: Free verse
Never Converse With Chaos
Find peace, 6 feet under 
Harsh wind tears the skin off of her soiled fingers
She's set fire to every bridge she built 
And inhales the...

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Categories: anesthetic, absence, corruption, dark, deep,
Form: Ballad
Introducing, New - Diet Dr Dishwater: a Manifesto For a New Kind of Nihilist
What's the point of Dr. Dishwater? 
Well, what's the point of anything? 
The only thing that appears 
to have a concrete purpose 
is my car...

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Categories: anesthetic, angst, dark, hilarious, parody,
Form: Free verse
Therapeutic
It is therapy for me
to make the pen dance melodies
across an otherwise bleek
piece of paper.
To create words that don't exist
because I WANT TO is simply...

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Categories: anesthetic, happiness, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Roll of the Dice
Started drinking fruit flavoured water now
Not the tastiest but I'll keep trying, I vow

In the winter months I always seem to gain
Inactivity is the culprit,...

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Categories: anesthetic, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Flower Power
Control me, console me, bestow and bless with your power and beauty
Possess me, caress my senses with exotic intoxicating perfumes
Cast spells with your existence and...

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Categories: anesthetic, beauty, emotions, feelings, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hat - Part 2
Josh’s drinking days were long behind him.  The three beers he drank before ordering his meal; the two beers he drank during his meal;...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anesthetic, life, wife,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs