Long Backache Poems

7/22/21

People continuing to show hate
As if they themselves are so great
While the planet continues to rotate

Boy you need a lot more than Colgate
You thought it did, but it carried no weight
Don't make me, or I'll...

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We puddled together in the pit,
           sweat wetting the earth.
Hand in hand we kneaded bricks,
        puffing in the...

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Little Johnny came home from school with a bellyache    
Naturally Mom feared the most recent local outbreak
Johnnie thankfully had no fever, she suspected it might be a fake
But strange and most bizarre...

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Time slips away
In a brisk flow,
Ooze of nine days
Where writes don't show.


A spinal pain
From a wound old,
Comes yet again
As hurt unfolds.


A pain so deep
As backache sheers,
To disturb sleep
In moments clear.


A fatal step
In awkward turn,
Can set...

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Spring cleaning
Here in good time;
Cold rain outside

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Change redecorates
New whim and fancy;
December comes

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Daydreams curl
Settee slumber;
Airy posture

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Words ooze
Nothing odd;
Blank gaze hollow

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Distant echoes
Cat day dreaming;
Walkway bench

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Page leaves
Ink stains dry;
Verse scripts curl

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Family meal
Loving hands set;
Soul food spread

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Headache pains
Pin pricks...

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When you go deep in your silence, there is nothing can break you but the faint sound of your days and when you read my poetry you will know that I am a farmer from...

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Headache? Pop some pills!
Fever or for any of your ills -
Sore throat? Running nose?
Backache? Joint pain?
Bad bowl moment? Sleeplessness?
Low libido? Birth control? Weight loss?
Feeling blue? Under the weather?
You are cranky and pain in the neck?
Yep,...

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What will become of you 
Worries me.. she told me..

You need to get a job..
Earn money... she said..

She had had her job for 38 years.
For 38 years they'd tried to kill her.
They bought her youth,
Her...

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My Gallery

In upper part of my body
A cognitive bell rings
From a dial-up connection
of live wires

The modem is working just
To repeatedly provide
the facsimile of
Barren and bald paths

Inner lumbering of daily freight
Coiling, clutching upward
There is no vivacity
The...

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Three Needed Wishes

Genie in the bottle, it is time that you awake. 
Three wishes that you have granted me, I shall not forsake.
First, make me physically healthy, free from every ache.
It would feel great to...

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Part of me says yes, yes, yes to a hot air balloon ride.
The other part shrieks NO! Because we know what could happen.
It happened once in Iowa, and the photos were on the front page...

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When I drowned into the sea  of pain.
With all the efforts gone in vain....
Money too, gone down the drain....
My back though, remained adamantly lame....


To you doctor, for treatment I came....
And life was never the...

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Whatever troubles we teachers undertake
We change you to truth from clear fake.
Teachers are doing work hard for your sake
Want you all to be like sweet and quiet lake
Whose water is drunk by all people in...

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Sunrise found the farmers waiting 
 at the grits mill by the stream. 
 With the sound of grinding corn, 
 neighbors worked as a team. 

 Sharecropping is just a memory... 
 No more...

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The Prince and the Fairy--


See the soaring of the prince,
I think he's angry at the vince.

He finds it hard to see the flowers,
Overshadowed by the glorious towers.

Who is that standing near the skies?
I think she'd...

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I'm  nursing a headache the size of Corfu
my stomach is tied up in knots,
it's the seventeenth time that I've been to the loo
feeling sick with a dose of the trots.
My memory's blank as to...

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I want to be free from this pain
Have a smile on my face once again
Dress myself on my own
Without a moan and a groan
I want to be free from this pain

I want to be free...

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I love to rap and tap most times ,
My wrist ,I can twist with real ease ,
Even though I’m not in my prime ,
My femurs and knees slide like grease ,
Hip for hip-pop dance and...

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Have I got my glasses
And my hearing aid
My bottle of mineral water
No fizzy lemonade
I cannot find my handbag
Or my money purse
Putting on my shoes
Have made my bunions worse
I have a box of tissues
For my runny...

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What's ailing my stomach,
Is causing me a heartache,
And a backache,
Ache like an acne,
Stubborn
Stubborn to the bone marrow
To the morrow
With chances so narrow
For glances
Or advances shallow
But piecing my heart like an arrow
Causing my hurt.

Looks like it...

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Truism 
Wit of wife
sharp as knife.

Observation
Easy to see
you love hyperbole.

Insult
You’re so fat
you're a habitat.

Emotional
I easily cry
when feelings intensify.

Scolding
You naughty boy
don't be coy.

Annoyance
A constant backache
keeps me awake.

Irritating 
A pesky mosquito,
an itch incognito.

Condescending
One last time,
charades...is pantomime!


Couplets
Sept. 13,...

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Just let me die! She screamed. Let me DIE!
She wanted to because that would have been a relief.
They left nothing in here, so hurting herself was not happening.
But she could yell and scream and torture...

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Nothing bothers me, not today.
I relax into the knowledge. No one can irritate me.
Because I have done my best, today.
Delighted forty people, maybe more…

Children - second, third and fourth graders.
My day is complete.  I...

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Barmaid Betty
Barmaid Betty's big bouncy boobies
beggar belief, bada bing bada boom.
But being blessed by bountiful breasts
brings burdens, bada bing bada boom.

Backache being barely bearable
by bedtime, bada bing bada boom.
Basically, Betty's beautiful boobs
beguile, bashful blokes, bada bing bada...

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