Best Apothecary Poems

Apothecary of fate
Mix me well 
Mix me a wishing well
Make me one so strong 
A wonderful blend
Fill it with all kinds of bends 
Got so much to say 
I will buy in 
Keep you around 
Just keep going on 
Make the road long 
Just set...

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Beloved Apothecary, you are most
     lovely to me in ways you cannot guess;
your subtle smile, which haunts me like a ghost,
     exalts and elevates me nonetheless.

More beautiful than the rest, you beguile
     the...

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on endless summer days
   winter's feeble sun

 apothecary of toxic tinctures
   phantom of the night...

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My sleep is disrupted, badgered
by incessant wordplay,
a thesaurus of woolgathering
in semi-conscious dreams.
I keep a voice recorder,
bedside, to record the tidbit morsels
Lest they're forgotten
when I awaken and make bread
from the crumbs dropped
on my passage through the night.
The poet's worst nightmare is that
the crumbs will be eaten...

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