Best Remedy Poems

I've told you how desperate
I am for sleep,
And I got a suggestion
It made me leap
Simplicity itself ; earslugs!

So I went out on a slug hunt,
Without realizing what a stunt,
It takes to be a successful slug-hunter
I found one at last,
Picked it up and so fast,
It oozed...

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i life
Reflections in the mirror increase resentment.
Tarnished heart pursues vengeful contentment
Disillusioned, you hide in fictitious make believe,
possessed by demons who purblind and deceive.
In your bogus twisted fabricated state of mind,
answers to your questions you shall never find.
Your fraudulent mask poses, deceptively concocted,
mocking with a grim...

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I gnore the ones who try to get you down
G ive up the need to try to prove your worth
N o one will care if in their hate you drown
O r if they do succeed to steal your mirth
R emember that to Him you are...

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Last night I consumed too much grog
This morning awoke in a fog
and though I'm unsure
of the bartender's cure
I'm shaving the hair off my dog

2.26.11...

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Poison
wicked, pernicious
intoxicating, impairing, destroying
abuse, death, immunity, life
saving, healing, purifying
redemptive, assuasive
Remedy...

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After booking for a consul-tation,
The doctor prescribed medi-cation,
But when I stood on a rake,
Then stepped back on a snake;
That’s what cured my consti-pation....

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I ache from my nose to my knees;
I sniffle and snuffle and wheeze.
A small tot of rum
might settle my tum,
but what should I take for a sneeze?

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Apathy’s Remedy
                    by Odin Roark

Some acknowledge it,
Few reject it,
Many succumb to it.

Such is the torpor
Surrounding too much of today’s pressing reality,
That adopted indifference and ennui by...

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My husband has always loved 
The African bush and the wild,
From the time he was only a child,
So, when he was old enough in his late teens,
Persuaded Andre a school friend, 
That the bush was serene,
But hubby did not expect a disaster so unforeseen.
It was...

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Banished to the front porch
brother, sister and I lay, 
dispirited, on quilt pallets,

with knees drawn up 
to meet our chins,

spewing forth to the ground
the meager contents
of our aching stomachs.

Mom called it "Summer Complaint."
She took her third arm,
the garden hoe, into the woods.

The roots, scrubbed and...

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look and listen to the birds
watch the flowers as they grow
enjoy the sun wind and rain
life's medicine chest....

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I've glanced at heaven.
I've walked through hell.
I wish on stars and dandelions

I crave for fantasies reality cannot satiate
At night I talk to the moon and sing to the stars
I walk on clouds and speak to whispers
I follow faeries to far off places 

Where a bleeding...

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Early morning she stormed my bed chamber
Like a needy stranger.
She opened the door of her mouth 
And let out a strong request,
‘’melody, be my remedy’’.
My loins leap, if I failed to succumb,
She’ll slump, for she is my honey comb.

The sunshine of her eyes appealed to...

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sleeplessness appears

to increase stress
short-term, chronic
inflame the worsening

overstimulation in mindfulness
or
laughter
the emotional factor

wound healing
optimists

selves as our
physical
bodies rigorous in trial
contrast principles  but seeking
circulation
impairs the wise choice...

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a wrong thought
to be fought...

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