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Laudanum Poems - Poems about Laudanum


Premium Member The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
... “The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown” That man built a house of straw and sticks and the stories that burned within - all consuming the titled prize; ......

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Categories: laudanum, muse,
Form: Narrative
Wanting What You Cannot Have
... You are the dusk that masquerades as first light. In the stillness of descending twilight, your spellbinder's expectorant opens the passageways of the feeble, weevles like a ......

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Categories: laudanum, art,
Form: Rhyme



People-Mirrors
...You know, there are people like mirrors, They reflect other people's thoughts. It's probably like a game of chance, Reflect them by unknown persons. They don't do what's right, They just refle......

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Categories: laudanum, emotions, mirror, people,
Form: Blank verse
A Soiled Dove
...Celia Ann Blaylock, one of Alice’s doves Plied her talents when the Wild West was A Hooker, a hussy, streetwalker, floozy a strumpet. Loose woman, whatever, a doozy and then she met Wyatt, a man ......

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Categories: laudanum, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tear
... “The Tear” How many oceans of salt does it take to form a tear? Unrelenting waves of sorrow pounding a broken heart hears the howl of sha......

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Categories: laudanum, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 50 Words For Poe: Dactyl
... “50 Words for Poe: dactyl” When Terror Fell came he had no complaints the joint was jumping it was do or dare he offered Her his old pear ......

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Categories: laudanum, dark, fantasy, freedom, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 50 Words For Poe: Foxglove
... "50 Words for Poe: Foxglove" What goes through the mind of Winter, when you are Autumn just past Spring Sometimes you’d squeeze IT in the ho......

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Categories: laudanum, dark, gothic, murder, muse,
Form: Free verse
On Bedlam
...He sat on the bed of roses They were spread in a confused manner Certainly intrepid in their graciousness Their petals waning at their edges And there alone, he sank into another She was distant......

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Categories: laudanum, depression,
Form: Free verse
Darwin
...From ancient blackened earth our lives emerged Affirming eon's cycling through soil's time But in the end all creatures had diverged. Though ash and cinder oft contributes grime To rising zephy......

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Categories: laudanum, earth, environment,
Form: Terza Rima
Detox
...No more water hosing or truncheons beaten on bare feet, no nightsticks cracking skulls on Bowery streets. No cold water straitjackets or rubber padded rooms, no laudanum doses sweeping minds lik......

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Categories: laudanum, caregiving, health, water, water,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things