Best Tobacco Poems
“I never travel without my diary,
One should have something sensational to read”
5-4-11: I never knew about the above quote of Wilde
But an event in life taught me to keep one.
4-23-94: Let me start with the initial jotting
A local doctor said it’s just cough, a thing seasonal
5-5-94: No cure, consulted again after two weeks
Advised to consult an ENT specialist attached to
A Medical College Hospital.
5-8-94: Diagnosed cancer of the vocal chords
5-10-94: But preferred to have a second opinion
Confirmed the first opinion and advised radiation.
The word spread in the University Campus town
In the Bohemians circle that a Wicket (Cricket) down
Heard from many mouths the fate of the tobacco chewer.
5-15-94: A friend of my son came to see me on hearing the news
He had the disease of the same type and category 10 years back
He took the radiation and there he was a positive case.
7-4-94: Started the radiation therapy of six weeks
Resigning 4 months earlier than the regular retirement.
Along with the radiation started the nature cure therapy
And the greatest of all therapies, the rosary with HIS name.
8-12-94 the radiation machine, only one in my State went off
Consulted the Cancer Hospital at Mumbai
Got the reply appointment after six months.
8-22-94: Luckily the treatment restarted after 10 days
9-2-94: And completed the radiation course.
12-5-94: Retested and was declared cancer free.
Thus the history of trials, tribulations, tests and tobacco taste.
5-4-11: The habit is still with me even to-day.
Oh, the digit 5 could be a lucky number for me.
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*The dates and events taken from my diary are real*. I have written
two poems on the event
1. What Gods there were
2. Butterfly Counts not months but moments.
Thanks, Constance, for sensational refreshing of my memories.
Dr. Ram Mehta
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Second place win in :
Contest: The Diary sponsored by Constance La France-A Rambling poet
There are tears mixed
into the pancake batter
sun is still obfuscated
by the window shades
without sunshine, I still
wind up a morning person
Tobacco clings to me,
where your scent would be
sewn with many memories
into the mesh of myself
a premature family crest,
stained and worn
The new day shows
only one outcome remains
the eggs are runny,
my nose sniffles into an arid oasis
no sunny side seems
to show up these days
I wake up to an empty pillow,
your space hollow through
but I still cannot but help myself
from making breakfast for two.
Old flame memories, and game show repeats,
viewed through tobacco, it's smoke fills the room,
loneliness, only, stays glued to defeat,
blue-bottles, can't help, but choke on the gloom.
Dreams like the remote, corroded to rust,
unopened, unpaid, bills sit by the door,
surrendered and lost, to despair and dust,
no-one levelled up, around here for sure.
Each day's an ashtray, of stub filled regret,
while moth eaten drapes, block out the world's light,
another neat gin, will help to forget,
added indifference, towards day and night.
The blocked drains and sink, dirty old dishes,
all that remains of, yesterday's wishes.
Tobacco is a silent killer…..
He is known as a cigarette and He is a silent killer whoever loves him.
He is a responsible person for a large number of deaths every year across the world.
He is made out from Tobacco leaves and whoever consuming him in any form like cigarettes,
Beedi or chewing crushed tobacco is very harmful. Initially He will make you happy with smoking
But at the end He will kill you slowly through your lungs infection.
Even you know him that He is a silent killer, but still you love him.
The experts says it is contains more chemicals and carcinogenic which causes cancer in your lungs.
They say “A cigarette a day keeps the doctor in pay”. How true it is. You are spending your
Hard earned money for paying hospital bills just for nothing.
Please think yourself hard that you have a beautiful life ahead and why do you want to make your life short?
Your family needs you and your presences at home are very important with your loved ones.
Please do not allow the killer tobacco to kidnap with your life and make you and your family paralyzed.
God has given you a wonderful life and he has shown you the value of life to be lived very happily.
Please do not disappoint those heavenly words other than respect its wisdom.
Please stop smoking at once.
Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka
All rights are reserved @ 2016 Ravi Sathasivam
Tobacco Match – Questionku with Tobacco Bridge - Haiku
Tobacco Match - Questionku
Children Playing
Cigarettes and death
What bum gave the matches
Tobacco Bridge- Haiku
young ones cover smoke
under bridge, hid with matches
lungs cannot forgive
He met Tula on a road -
Tobacco Road,
After a play.
She twirled for him at night,
But that was some time after.
First there was the long Tobacco Road.
4/24/2015
tobacco growing
in the field, green luscious plant ...
lung disease, cancer
“I never travel without my diary,
One should have something sensational to read”
5-4-11: I never knew about the above quote of Wilde
But an event in life taught me to keep one.
4-23-94: Let me start with the initial jotting
A local doctor said it’s just cough, a thing seasonal
5-5-94: No cure, consulted again after two weeks
Advised to consult an ENT specialist attached to
A Medical College Hospital.
5-8-94: Diagnosed cancer of the vocal chords
5-10-94: But preferred to have a second opinion
Confirmed the first opinion and advised radiation.
The word spread in the University Campus town
In the Bohemians circle that a Wicket (Cricket) down
Heard from many mouths the fate of the tobacco chewer.
5-15-94: A friend of my son came to see me on hearing the news
He had the disease of the same type and category 10 years back
He took the radiation and there he was a positive case.
7-4-94: Started the radiation therapy of six weeks
Resigning 4 months earlier than the regular retirement.
Along with the radiation started the nature cure therapy
And the greatest of all therapies, the rosary with HIS name.
8-12-94 the radiation machine, only one in my State went off
Consulted the Cancer Hospital at Mumbai
Got the reply appointment after six months.
8-22-94: Luckily the treatment restarted after 10 days
9-2-94: And completed the radiation course.
12-5-94: Retested and was declared cancer free.
Thus the history of trials, tribulations, tests and tobacco taste.
5-4-11: The habit is still with me even to-day.
Oh, the digit 5 could be a lucky number for me.
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May 10, 2014
Form:Free Verse
Tobacco Plants
Life emerges,
Like a silent cigarette,
Pre-ordained to kill.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
April 4, 2008
You don't always die from tobacco.
Sometimes they'll remove part of your lung.
You don't always die from tobacco.
Sometimes they'll cut out your tongue,
and you won't speak worth a heck with that big hole in your neck.
No you don't always die from tobacco.
You don't always die from tobacco.
Sometimes you'll just keep coughing till you choke.
You don't always die from tobacco.
Sometimes you'll just have a stroke,
and you can still do many things despite your amputated limbs.
No you don't always die from tobacco.
You don't always die from tobacco.
Sometimes you'll always feel like you're always out of breath.
You don't always die from tobacco.
Sometimes you'll just be wishing for your death.
Sometimes you'll live in constant pain as your quality of life goes down the drain
becsuse you don't always die from tobacco.
- Inspired from The Tobacco Song on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQE043K0bTM
I've been smoke free two months today.
I haven't smoked and I hope that's how things will stay.
Please don't start smoking, it wasn't a good thing for me to do.
Please say no to nicotine because that is what is best for you.
From Buffalo to San Francisco,
from Fargo to El Paso,
you don't need the tobacco.
It has got to go.
Give it the heave ho.
Sung very loud:
Wouldn't you like a ride on my beautiful cigar
Wouldn't you like to glide in my beautiful cigar
We could float among the puffs together, you and me
Cuz we got fleas, we got fleas.
Pity the Poor Tobacco Companies
By Elton Camp
Oh, how much to be preferred was the former day
When government didn’t tell business what to say
With the regulations on ads the government’s givin’
It’s hard for honest cigarette sellers to make a livin’
Libelous scientific studies just keep on pouring out
On the safety of smoking to cast most serious doubt
Then the big government stuck its nose into things
And demands on advertising very unfairly brings
“You can’t advertise on TV or to kids anymore
For your unhealthy products we surely do abhor.”
Concern for free speech it showed most total lack
And required warnings be put right onto the pack
The audacity of such action can anyone believe
They have a right the trusting public to deceive
Tobacco smokers have a right to pollute the air
So about the rights of the sellers we should care
It’s not like they are producing illegal meth
To avoid exposure you can hold your breath