Best Salutary Poems

I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Nestling in my realm, as you host a daydream,
Reveling in breeze of my splendor evergreen,
I welcome you to my domain of rhythmic trills
Where roam the...

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"Marching Band"
Dapper dilettantes take over one hundred yards 
Showing their feathers like a cockatoo on pointy shakos 
Displaying their talents on grass they are anything...

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The alarm hits me over the head like a rock
Extra scoop of exhaustion, work-related
Timer says it’s Cranky-Past-Grump O’clock
But fear not, the remedy has percolated

The mind...

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From the brow of the hill
I could clearly see the panorama
Beneath me.  Worried I saw 
From afar a dark man,
Scythe in hand reaping…..God knew...

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"Strange Vampires"

all those years 
ago, when conspiracies
flourished around 
did we or didn’t we go 
to the moon, when we
were once human,
proved to be lies,
whichever way...

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I was told in the beginning
    That a wish may not well be  unicorn
    With two winged thrust-thronged
...

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Outside, being outside, I thrill in nature’s seminary.
All lives sincere within earth’s sweet, sylvan sanctuary.
Trees never lied to hide their ancient commentary
or nature bid to...

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Come, oh Love! 

You, salutary medicine of the soul,

Come!


Let your presence in Man’s heart, panacea* 

For 

Humanity’s ills to become!



© Demetrios Trifiatis
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Love

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I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness,
Running down your ravaged with pain
             ...

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From the fathomless well of blessed
Emotions,
The salutary water of love my 
Soul drew

For

To quench her burning thirst for  
Affection
And make my life’s dreams to...

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It’s another red-letter day
a holiday in the U.S.
a national, religious holiday
known also as a ‘Turkey Day’
a very important day.

A chance to be reconnected,
a moment of...

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I miss her, Mother Egypt
and those friends I left behind,
timeless history, marvels and mysteries
etched in stone by her own scribes.

Longing for the waters of the...

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Consonant Like A Vow (el)

Now ma nada twirly (to early) twittering 
condolences to the esprit de corps, qua 
(just recently) late John McCain, and his...

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