Long Painkillers Poems

From the error of my ways 
in the blink of one's eyes 
falling backwards I called out 
Oh God please save me
Inside the crunch mercy echoed 
as warm blood soaked the hands 
running through fingers...

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>I have a blinking broken foot.  
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
&
Poetry soup honourably mentioned.

I have a blinking broken foot.
My left one can you not see.
The picture’s on my Facebook page.
For all of...

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The year was 1956
and I distinctly recall 
my mother's lovely face
as she told me 
Szererlek (I love you) 

and as I seen her lovely smile
I remember her face
as she held back bittersweet tears
tying to hold...

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on his deathbed
he stares up at the ceiling---
a stale, supposedly calming
light blue, basks down upon
his now disease ridden body &
with all the tubes pumping
painkillers & poisons into him,
he’s finally fallen into submission,
giving up the last...

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There is quilt of comfort made with silver threads.
For friends and families of alcoholics, that have given
up, and just shake their weary heads.

You cannot ever on your own power save an alcoholic.
To play God~~is a...

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Sitting here in this cold dark cell thinking about hard we was liven in the hood!! Never thought I would be 15 years old strung out painkillers doing atleast twenty or thirty pills a day...

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>This is a poem I wrote on my daughter’s Facebook page in November 2015.  I had just been discharged from Ipswich Hospital after an operation on my back.  Movement was nigh impossible, but...

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Running Water 

Cold, lonely, fears
Heartache,pain,tears
Abuse, torment all of her years 
Sick of the lies
sick of the guys 
hurts so bad inside 
Samestuff everynight 
Men walk the earth with no souls 
Night after night it takes...

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“The Queen-Sized Bed”.
			 © London F. Buss

  A queen-size bed was coming slowly,
  down the rough dirt track.
  As it drew closer,
  The wheels clumsily mounted on the base of each...

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commercials for cellphones
commercials for lipsticks
commercials for fragrance
commercial for a gas company
commercial for a golf club
for a car
for shoes
commercial for a cellphone
commercials for painkillers
commercails for a gun
commercial for the lottery
commercials about my happiness
commercials about my life
about...

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unbearable agony for months
heavy painkillers that don't do much
psychologicaly screwing me up
in the midst of your cure for my obsessive compulsive disorder
the guy who leaves
to make it all make sense
undeniable the amount of pain constantly...

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Push breathe
I know it will hurt
I am aware of the pain 
And I will be aware as they push lava in my veins 
I am an innocent man 
I am a man of no contest...

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Superficial Smiles by Shane Cogan

A trapped house can be worse than a prison
Cell doors open daily, a sealed house door never
Guards who snarl or smile is a guard forever
They also torture, but you found your...

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2/1/23

Shout out to Einstein
How has it not already been a sign of the times?
What a tragedy the way that Christ died
Too real it's lifesize
To this day we got all these wise guys
Full of white lies
Critically...

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Little sweet Lucy..four years..so small. 
Her pink teddy bear.. and her Barbie doll. 
Pushed strollers of fun. ..in traipse of malls. 
Then a Topsy turvy evil.. stifles her a thrall. 

She cries, " Where are...

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My mind  is thinking as my heart is beating
Time is ticking as my thoughts are itching
Thanks to evolution I have an enormous brain
Thanks to love my heart is in a lot of pain.

Inside this...

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Seeming unseeing, expressionless being
Asleep in this wide awake town 
Leant on the side of a bridge cross the river 
Her gaze and demeanour are down

Considered a knife for taking her life
But thoughts of whom-ever might...

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As i walk down the hallway of my school,i can't help but wonder what people are 
thinking when they see me walk by.
In my mind im hearing the worst.
When i look in the miror i...

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26 Nights

Date: Thu, Dec 3 2015 at 12:25 PM

I think 26 nights crazy
I think 26 nights crazy
I think Me and Vashawn crazy
I think Me and Laquan crazy
I did 26 falls on the floor an the...

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When it comes to

What my definition is

Of a good night in

Which and what

Box Sets I want to binge on

These are my preferred favorite's

Placed in no particular order

Boxes of

Beer

Cigarettes

Take-away

Chocolate

Sweet's

Chip's

Painkillers to quell the morning hangover
bound to follow...

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Suicide letters
Or love notes to death
I an not sure what to call them
I have read so many
From my friends of course
Saying they are sorry
How they just couldn't take it any longer
How their sorrow swallowed them
The...

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Revoking Doc's License #1

A word from the State Medical Board committee
The #1 injection will always be P.D.
Doc, I am considering to slam you out of pity
I do not mess with poets whose licenses come from...

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I see a first-time daddy holding his son’s tiny hand for the first time.
I can see a baby, creating his first soft, fragile memory in a smiling hospital bed.
I hear the constant, high-pitched beep-beep-beep-beep coming...

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The huntsman and his peregrine

Woods was all his belongings 
The huntsman's only pride and his holy livelihood 
Flew an injured peregrine to his land one evening 
Her quill feathers perfumed of mountains and coastal
She was...

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I suit up my manhood
Yeah it’s a choking tie
I put on a pleasant mood
Otherwise you could die

The world outside’s a pain
So painkillers I swallow
Wash down with champagne
To drown my hollow sorrow

I’m a living scarecrow
Mimic death...

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