Best Lozenges Poems

From the back of a woman’s mind
A thought creeps, peeps and slips
Meandering through layers of blind rind
Summersaulting to scan sweeps

Teeming with spaces in vessels
Where the...

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All round the ring of Kerry’s highways, people point and cry
It’s 4 o’clock on the very dot and Mick’s rig is passing by,
It has glistening...

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A stuffy nose leads to runny nose, frozen toes and thick as jelly mucus
sitting in your chest not allowing you to rest, mucus really sucks...

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Putting his whole heart into it
Belting out the chorus so loud
Needing a prompter for the lyrics
No one listening in the crowd.

Signing up to sing again
Waiting...

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As the autumn and winter seasons inexorably unfold,
You can bet that I'm destined to catch my annual cold!
I've tried every remedy from the local pharmacist's...

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One winter long long ago
It was our first year together
My husband
God bless his heart
Decided he’d go shopping
You guessed it
T’was Christmas eve
We’ll say up front
The man’s...

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GUYS WHO WORK IN THE ZOO

Laryngitis specialist for the giraffe 
A dozen  lozenges for her calf
 
Dental assistant doing fillings 
Or bridgework for baby...

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Nature is a fugitive here now
the air thick with metallic salt
silver waves lap a barren shore

Governments bend and lie
as we all do – yet a...

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An Apache pilot once sought for a treasure
In booze, in fun
Sampling leisure and pleasure
Until an Apache chopper gun  

In his attentive ears whispered
Enjoining him...

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In my life, narrow margins matter
Opening my eyes wide
To better perspectives which don’t flatter
Dispensable pride riding on the tide 

Where populism portrays norms
To which I...

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Hell, let’s talk.

Heres my mind outlined in chalk/
Hold it tight so it won’t take off/
Holding you down with each of my thoughts/
Folding you over with...

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Felt a little lazy 
So I rested today 
Cancelled an appointment 
with an old friend
Took lozenges and 
many cups of green tea with honey 
Tomorrow...

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I’m feeling just a little off.
It’s just a little cold;
But yet there’s this annoying cough
That’s got me in its hold.

I carry lozenges in case
The cough...

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nothing is perfect
rain does fall sometimes
the weather can be temperamental
the sun can be stubborn
the moon can be uncooperative
in the end, we do the work to...

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Like a dog
With a sandpaper throat
A cough like a bark
And the mood of a scrote

Just tossing and turning
With no comfortable spot
A nose like a tap
Simply...

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