Prayer Drink Poems

Some nights I need a second glass of wine
Here we are poised like vultures on a limb
internal yearnings turn thin fog as we dine.

My mouth...

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How to rid myself of addiction
Let it run to the cross soiled
Here on the 1st station of the cross
Feel the self-hate go to its fate
Carry...

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Though one may begin to scoff
They may remain-- to pray
To get into reading, it's enough
For the A.A. book --this way


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Reply to "The Doctor's Opinion"
"I earnestly...

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coffee and a cup of poetry
pleasure on a reading spree
looking up…it’s mid morning
chores pressing in, warning

cup was hot, warm, lukewarm, cold,
empty…not so the bouquet i...

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Dear Lord God the almighty who owns all
Grow him feathers to flying higher and not fall
Spark your guiding light
Whenever he is faced fright

Make this day...

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Matters not we drink coffee or tea
   Creatures of habit are we

Three meals a day, work before play
   A prayer before...

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Her eagerness to be successful
bought her to him to be alone
Her need and. desire to copulate
Made loving her less a chore
The wines and bread to...

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Their victorious voice peal:
“We’ve grandly struck a deal!   
In many ways now real 
And worth a struck whisky seal!” 

But their joy others...

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cold
sea fog
shrouds the road
corn whiskey breath
permeates truck/s cab
flashing lights dead ahead
break too late - crash certain, glass
shatters, blood splatters like red paint
I didn't hear nobody...

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Have this cocktail straight up with no ice.
In a stemmed glass, it looks very nice.
If you have white rum, cognac, triple sec, and lemon juice,
you...

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Coffee for One 

You greet as you serve
My refreshment and stuff
Sometimes we chat
But your smile is enough 

I'm not sure you know
As you dutifully grind
How...

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Many have been healed by faith.                   ...

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To drink deep of life
  Imbibe ever-so-slowly

Sip her nectar in reverence
  ~ In worship holy...

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NOTE: The Natchez Trace is the Nashville bar where I met my future wife Beth. We invented a game called "twister pool" which involved billiards,...

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Somewhere in this world today,
An addict will quit drugs or alcohol.
In a Recovery Program, or try his
own way.

I know it's so cool to have a...

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