Best Lithium Poems

Law, English, business, and so on—
    alas, are tiresome!
All the professors here go on 
    with a prime axiom. 

A moldy, college campus where 
    knowledge and books abound,
freshmen and co-eds are clueless
   ...

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Part 1

Lithium, Sodium, Potassium
All from Periodic Table Group One
Their reactivity is maximum
And they affect the human condition

Rechargeable batteries use Lithium
As a component in their production
It tries to make mental health optimum
In treating the bipolar condition

Sodium is essential in nutrition
As sodium chloride salt in food for...

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chemical crane,
 lithium albatross.

 iodized magnetic zion
  in my head.

  i'll run for days,
 inside a solar haze.



corrosive reduction 
under the sun.

the old search for
 the purified lithium.


metallic filter to drain
 the silt.

empty the heart of all
 its guilt.

  
so salt the...

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when i play guitar
for real
i can bend the notes
only so far

in my mind

when i play guitar
i can bend the notes
beyond the breaking strings
beyond the bleeding fingertips

in reality
the lithium
keeps a lid on things....

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Is the power that keeps our love alive 
It's energy resolving in tons 
All around my living soul
Stuck in my mind that only you behold 
The Lithium 
Controls me like sounds of your voice 
Soothing my very being 
Like liquid water in the stream 
Your...

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Where are you
Black, blue, red sky?
Beautiful chaos?

Where are the colors?
Vibrant greens?
The rapturous blues?
The violent reds?
The unbearable blacks?
All I see is a dull brown.

Where is the genius?
The Mozart?
The Einstein?
The drunk?
That blade of grass? –
That everything I was at that moment?

Who am I now?
Where are my thoughts?
Where...

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I'll give it all away just to have some peace in my mind
my self criticism to others is blind, manic to the point
of panic my indecision in all things should paint a picture
of  destruction and wavering growing pains. Deception
is my key i'm normal as...

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The mood stabilizer, and 
Crushed air.
The hurt of thoughts, for 
Our songs of care.

But, 
I’m so happy, because
Today, I found my friends, 
They’re in my head. And
I’m not gonna crack.

Swiftly now, 
Through our veins
It swims.
Anti-depressants, 
…Our favorite sins.

Sing and dance, for 
Worries have no control.
The...

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LITHIUM EQUILIBRIUM

“All Apologies” to Kurt Cobain
this drug is decidedly an undeserving
 song depicting a drug you avoid to obtain
 logically-- wisely your ‘sanity’ preserving

People and places—intensely uninteresting
social withdrawal--  avoiding all feelings
bipolar depression is a flat hollow distancing
irritable, paranoid, humorless empty meanings

High is magnificent with...

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Lithium keeps me current
On river raft sans torrent
Dreaming by cloud tufted sky
Scoring rustic lullaby
Hands caressing cool water 
Passing coarse cliffs which totter
Lithium keeps me current...

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lithium
element of exploitation and mayhem 
used in rechargeable batteries
prevention of Alzheimer's disease
spacecraft and nuclear reactors
advanced war weaponry..
They say a trillion dollars worth
is under the blood and burn of Afghanistan
was it ever really about freeing the oppressed
and sowing the seeds of democracy
Xi is licking his lips...

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He invented things
all sorts of things
Electronic things
that were usefully
and novel
More things than he
probably will be credited
for
He created or recreated
God's gift to man
the dog
He created a tree with a
tethered horse.
Perfect likeness to the
real thing.
His mindset was off the grid
Something that would 
add to securing people
By giving...

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The air is open-ended,
The wind sends a whisper through my spinal cord at lightning speed 
Acres upon acres of oceanic scenery plunging itself into my irises 
The horizon is as wide as the Milky Way 
You can see where the opaque waters begin to blend...

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Eunice tried to break the cycle;
caught again, hunched at the plug,
charging up the unicycle.

Many thought it rather strange,
but as for me, I simply shrugged.
Anxious, she, about its range.

Ignorant, this thief, methinks..
Like a whisper, off this thug,
had she known it was a Lynx.

Now she's truly living...

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