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Best Cortisol Poems


Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
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In the intimate interlace of free will and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is.. is over in the stormy, swarming sp......

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Categories: cortisol, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Fight or Flight Mode Switched On
...Fight or flight mode always on
Can't explain to anyone
what is going on in life
Internal/External strife

"Take a breath; you'll be alright"
Set a match to dynamite
World without is going mad
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Categories: cortisol, depression, loneliness, mental health,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Live Onstage--Amphetamine
...A relay of moods dribbles on and on
when euphoric tunes kick in:
Jazz, R& B, slow funk, wild pop
igniting primal ecstasy, in the flesh...raw!

Live music leaves me breathless
as thuds o......

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Categories: cortisol, music, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Biology
...Biology! Biology! How many times have I called you?
You frighten me every time I hear your name,
Because I can’t withstand your lies and pain you cause me,
You lack conscience since you introduced......

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Categories: cortisol, 8th grade, black african
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Intellectual Snobbery
...When I was in grade school
I was, already, 
on my leftbrain dominant path
toward acting the intellectual snob.

This, in large part
my best offense,
my trump card, sadly,
against marginalizin......

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Categories: cortisol, appreciation, emotions, farm, gender,
Form: Political Verse
Ode To Shadows
...ode to shadows

as i peer out the glassed portières
penumbral visitations mock me; dare they
deign to scare this parched crypt of
adrenaline and cortisol, usurped by unquiet
scourges ov......

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Categories: cortisol, dance, dark, night, pain,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Paranoid Delusions
...Beelzebub arrived between the christmas lights strung inside my dorm,
Buzzing on my walls and brain to display what he must warn.

Voices scream inside my head when no one is around,
Dragging me ......

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Categories: cortisol, anxiety, psychological,
Form: Couplet
De-Stress the Dis-Tresses
...Watch the multi-tasking drivers talking on the phone.
This is a story of our daily life-style that we overlook and condone.
Recognize the familiar a.m. and p.m. rush-hour cast? 
Could this be you ......

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Categories: cortisol, angst, funny, happiness, time,
Form:
50 Words For Poe: St John
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"50 Words for Poe: St John"




St John was his name
Sinjun for short
Temptation was his game

Ah Black Monk of my dreams
A hot car on a fast ......

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Categories: cortisol, car, dark, mystery, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Hormones
...My body is awash with serotonin,
Endorphin and adrenaline,

I pounded the pavement with such fury,
With earphones, with such fury,
On ears, Metallica pounded mine

I followed the track with su......

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Categories: cortisol, uplifting
Form: Free verse
Anxiety
...I'm going to bed at 10:30 tonight, cause I know il have a 2 hour psychological warfare until past midnight,
morning, I managed 5 hours sleep, floods of cortisol starting to peak
I need go brush my ......

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© Jack Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cortisol, anger, body, character, depression,
Form: ABC
Wrinkles
...the wrinkles on your own hands

 

(no matter how many lotions you have rubbed on them, no

matter how much vitamin e oils, no matter how many

antioxidants you consume---all in the attempt t......

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Categories: cortisol, life
Form: Free verse
Why We Complain
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Does complaining helps, I don't know; but they say
yes it helps, keeps one away from taking action;
It gives excuses to procrastinate, stay
away from achieving goals as reaction;
Com......

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© Pratap Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cortisol, conflict,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Bird and The Worm
...Crawling upon desecrated ashes,
whispers haunt ~
“You will never make it.”

Vermilion skies rumble over the brutal horizon,
splitting open as a deafening rain pours forth,
drenching an already ......

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cortisol, dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Worrying
...Laying here worrying
What’s on your mind?
Your silence stab’s my soul
And I’m left here wondering
What is going wrong?

Looking through photos of you
Makes me smile, you’re so Beautiful
You’r......

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© Daron Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cortisol, life, love, people, romanceme,
Form:

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry