Long Laryngitis Poems

Topics of conversation seem to change as we approach maturity.
As kids we talked of love - now it's lumbago and social security!
It once was enlightening to simply discuss the weather,
But now it's a litany of...

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One late winter early spring I developed laryngitis
to the point I could only emit broken, raspy ,unintelligible barely perceptible noise.
 My kids and I had gone on a Sunday morning for donuts one each,and my...

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Aged and mellowed, golden whiskey in a wide mouth Mason jar.
Poured over sweet rock candy, was the guaranteed cure,
of ticklish throats; sprained ankles; hair loss; hang nails and more.
Always kept on hand, for times of...

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Found on a pedestal, or hold, loneliness bends to isolation.
For silent walls to speak so comfort, felt with validation.
Feel the waves of silence as apathy chills you to the bone.
Few relish in self-centredness, or a...

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"MATCH LIGHT IN DAYLIGHT"

Sam Kinisin had laryngitis
the yellow brick road was checkered
 
a child stands in the corner 
for punishment
the woman in glasses screams
at 8:53 AM

I save the girl
from drowning
and she tells me 
I owe...

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Communication
Talking, Singing, Dancing,
Writing, Drawing, Praying,
Signing, Listening, Seeing,
Reading, Cooing, Touching,
Bridges in a list few,
That allow One to Two.
Or Expansion of One,
If the Ability to Be Common,
Is Ever Shrunk, Compromised,
The Feelings Become Numb,
We are Un-Mistakenly Downsized!
Laryngitis, Soundless,...

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Shouldering songs from the birth to the rhyme
of emotion, spring silver and burgundy 'spires
Slipping your words in a tragedy roll
tumbling and tumbling sweet in my mouth
Parching the lips from the birth to the hip
of elation,...

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Tomorrow’s the day
New job on the way
Interview at eight
You gotta look great
In bed on time
Wake up at nine
ALARM NOT SET!
 
You are the Star
Step out of the car
Know all the songs
What could wrong
Open your mouth
Nothing...

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maybe they just need some oinkment
when pigs get laryngitis
    i suppose they feel somewhat disgruntled

english teacher's nightmair
observed in a book store: 
    "sale - all spelling workbooks 50% of!"

too...

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Sleepily the night's rain and morning fog
Click-clacked upon leaf covered ground from the eaves
Coating things even roosters' monologue
Saturating it heavily so tight like basket weave

One rooster sounds like has laryngitis
Maybe he's young one who just...

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I once worked with a youth who had gingivitis
Twenty years younger yet she already had arthritis

Pretty enough in spite of her dermatitis
She so craved attention we all thought caused by meningitis

Winters seemed worse with time...

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GUYS WHO WORK IN THE ZOO

Laryngitis specialist for the giraffe 
A dozen  lozenges for her calf
 
Dental assistant doing fillings 
Or bridgework for baby crocodillings

Pest control officer for monkeys
But I don’t  gotta eat...

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I sit by the sea
Let it wash over me	
Soothing my pain
her ebb and her flow
For I am still here
on this Christmas Day
I did not go away
for I needed to stay
Feeling so weak
Laryngitis ~ can’t speak
So...

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When there is a thunderstorm -
Bark! Bark! Bark!
When there’s a knock upon the door -
Bark! Bark! Bark!
When a cat comes into sight -
Bark! Bark! Bark!
When there’s noises in the night -
Bark! Bark! Bark!
When Harry’s practice...

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