Long Laughter is the best medicine Poems

Welcome, Soupers, to our special segment today. We have a very unique guest with us - a cherub! Yes, you heard that right. Please give a warm welcome to our celestial friend, Calvin.


Calvin, thank you...

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take it to the beat watch us meet to greet fooling in the street
tripping on the beach smoking fat leaves doing what you please
as busy as a bee making sweet history
there's a battle for your...

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I've decided to write a letter
To everyone who ever told me that I wasn't good enough.
It could start off like “dear humanity,”
Because sometimes I feel like the whole world is against me
Or it could start...

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Why do they say

you can't take money with you when you go?
So what do you do if you go out shopping?

The grass is 'always greener on the other side?
Not if you have a sandy beach...

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I know this lovely poet,
Her name is Ann Gilmour 
She really is an angel,
One that I adore.
She's a best friend of my Auntie,
They have a lot in common,
Parkinson's being one of them
Which is really rather...

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MY SHORTCOMINGS ARE OVERWHELMING - HOWEVER MY STRENGTHS ARE DEFEATING THEM - POETRY CONTEST

I stood there,
...slowly...
I removed my clothes...
you could tell that my date who was 
about to see me naked for the first time 
was...was...well...EXCITED!
I was worried...

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They claim the grass
Is always greener on the other side
But there is no grass just a beach and the tide
They say you never know whats around the corner
I do big Ada she's rough I have...

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Love is blind,

But it can see beyond what your eyes can do.

Love is everywhere,

But it only dwell in your being.



Practice makes perfect,

But nobody's perfect at all.

It can only make ineradicable things,

Out of those human imperfections.



First...

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OLD MA.

Old Ma always gave the kids a nice treat
Always nuts and never anything sweet
But they soon found out why
Nuts were in great supply
Choc nut bars she'd only suck cos no teeth...

NO HIDING PLACE.

An old...

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It’s her laugh…
Deep in conversation I share my comedic roots
Intrigued by my sense of humor she begins to laugh
 At first just a gentle laugh that we shared.
Then her voice cracks, and breaks into an...

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The Keystone Cops were funny,
Chaplain, Keaton, Lloyd, and Fields too.
Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers,
Were just some of the names we knew.


Who can forget the Stooges, 
Or all the pies we saw them throw?
Who didn't...

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Mr. Bean has made the world go laughing
and if laughter tis the best medicine
then Mr. Bean sure is doctor of laughter
for quite apt is he at appealing humour!

Perhaps the world's best most beloved buffoon
with antics...

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A Sweet Homily 

The lavender scent on the fallen dew
 Treasure the moments that brought things a new
 Inside we pause to reflect over the kindness inside
 Soft pillows to claim the ardent fields a...

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Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder,
But Whiskey makes you frisky.
Clerihews and epigrams are fine but
Do not tell these to one lost in love
Except when you mean to cheer up one
Fevered with temporary  amourous setbacks.
Gift...

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Collective Tapestry

Time To Swoon

through moments crossed in the sun
a bit of fun...
the day we first met
in bitter circumstance

to taste the flame that awaits
the circus bow
Spring time set in action
onto the weary eye

heart in one accord


The...

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I'm just your happy go lucky and very care free,
absolutely miserable SOB,
who deals with his depression by trying to be funny,
in a comical approach to writing poetry,
as opposed to depressing the hell out of everybody...

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"Laughter is the best medicine"

There was once a rich business man who was diagnosed with cancer 
doctor told you will not live for more than three months
Back home he decided to enjoy last days of...

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Amusing is easy. Real is impossible.
  
    March 23, 1949 I arrived to spectacular reviews.
    When I was first male child things went swimmingly!
    Passed...

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Laughter is the best medicine
               To chase those blues away
           ...

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Start

We often come across a certain day
When we cannot find a single way
To replace despondency with hope
Discard the thought of taking dope

We remember God and seek his blessing
Offer prayers  and keep guessing
Will He help,...

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I’ve had a fair share of tragedy in my life,
When my father passed away I found I lost two cousins too
When I flew to Zimbabwe I almost separated from my wife
So you see my tragedy...

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Etched in the vast brigade of your mind
Left at your best sublime
A merry heart does good like a medicine
Happiness is a lone gun momma bang bang shoot shoot
Laughter is the best medicine
Each of us can...

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Is laughter still the best medicine?
Of course it is,
I stake my life on it,
So, why the heck are so many people afraid to laugh,
In case it might not be PC

Maybe the problem is that we...

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Lean on the strength of a shoulder
We all need it specially when we cry
Strength of the shoulder comes 
Not from the Gym, but from the Heart

A heart which is tender
A heart filled with love and...

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Avoiding work like the plague is my main aim 
Picking the low hanging fruit sounds very lame 
The least I can do, at the end of the day 
My hope is that this dog will...

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