Long Slimming Poems

To prepare for final cosmic breath
exhaled

echoing first breath
inhaling
waiting to exhale

silent sacred pause 
for Earth's final soliloquy 

Terminating all humane
and inhumane futures,
healthy
and disturbing relationships,
elegantly excruciating ecstasy

Leaving hell
without receiving Heaven

Surrendering commitments
to health
and lack thereof

Future obligations
and past assets

Resigning...

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When I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We were all this way, and there is no shame
In the...

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The Inflated Nation!

Americans growing wider by the minute!
Is there  a Russian collusion behind this illusion?
(Now, there's a breaking news headline
with real meat in it)

(Mashed potatoes, ah,don't forget, 
drowning in a greasy, gravy pit?)
Served at your table,...

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Linda Bentley, 

I remember the first time we met you came round for a coffee. 
I remember it well, we sat talking for hours, just you and me.
Over the next few years, We must have...

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I took my mum to slimming world 
On every Tuesday night 
She’d get her finest glad rags on
And beam with sheer delight

Not much of an adventure,
On the way she’d barely speak.
But she’d set her sights...

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I've started my stand-by diet: a few different fruits each day,
and having repeated it time and again, I feel qualified to say
apples, unless of a rare and crisp nature, are mushy and generally gross.
Halfway into...

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Thank You Sally

For almost 30 years I’ve been trying to loose this weight,
So obviously, I have been putting all the wrong food on to my plate.
I have tried almost every diet that has ever been...

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Thank You Sally

For almost 30 years I’ve been trying to loose this weight,
So obviously, I have been putting all the wrong food on to my plate.
I have tried almost every diet that has ever been...

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O Grace thou Art !!!!

like the smallest bells suddenly ringing  
in my ashen-ed grey hallways
 
a swirl of brilliant breeze 
light splashes in ...crests over the sills
blinding glory

startled awake
my eyes open

overwhelmed once again...weak with...

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The snowman stood in silence enjoying the winter chill.
He awoke to observe the beauty seen from atop the hill.
The couple who had come to ski took pleasure in their play.
and, thus, created the snowman who...

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I've had thunder thighs and cankles,
For a portion of my life.
Boobs the size of melons,
Causing me such strife.
I would puff like a steam train
On the slightest little walk.
And shove junk food in my mighty gob,...

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I am wanting to look good.
It is high time that I should
The mirror in the wardrobe told me so
I am now no longer fit
Just an old decrepit git
Who lost his youthful figure long ago

My hair...

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Pu Erh tea = shrinks fat cells & help promote weight loss (mornings)
  low-caffeine

* white tea = blocks fat absorption & increases metabolism and boosts
    slimming  (lunch time)  Caffeine

*...

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Mona Lisa is
Looking directly with fizz
Loving life more than slaying 

Her bent left arm looks
Curving as rushed water goes
Few miles into Sinai cove

Her left side’s dark cheek
A map of bliss’ Middle East
Tsunami comes to seek...

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Those endless talks of 
giving the fat a trim
Beauty is now the 
monopoly of the slim! 

Sinuous and slender
The hourglass figure
The thinner, the better.

Dieting and slimming 
down tricks
ofcourse selling like hot 
cakes

Tis a pity, I...

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She stared into the mirror,
wished she could utter the Queen's request.
"Mirror, mirror on the wall...." 
What was the use?  She was not beautiful.
Nor was she rich.  No plastic surgery for her.
 
Oh to...

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Forty days and forty nights in lock down

	Breathless for inhaling my own air ad infinitum

		Could be worse if I was left out to dry in the desert


Isolation in my own four walls in solitude

	Puffing and...

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You are the swell of my pride
My sunny sky
What motivates me day and night
Without you my life would be crusty and dry

Your my Peter Pan, my Robin Hood
My wish upon a star so true
You made...

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The pleasure of old age 
This is good morning only been up twice in the night and not 
Stumbled over furniture, his wife kept filling the house with 
Unwanted things. When he protest she says...

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A day to forget

It was a rotten day from the start, got up late
feeling as if he had not slept at all and the night had been dreamless
all his phobias leak into his dream, making...

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Have no pity for the overweight,
the out of breath at the garden gate,
the struggling in and out of cars,
cnsumer of syrup and chocolate bars.

Walking sticks and mobility scooters,
the difficult bras encasing hooters.
Red faced men and...

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By Fatmir Terziu

What could I tell a Londoner about the Fatherland? The adverts
Are copies of the unscrupulous inscriptions in tombstones,
Just as we are copies of the bestial goods,
Of our egoistic laughable thoughts,
Like fortune-telling using broken...

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It’s amazing how we meet people,
How they play a major role in our lives.
It’s exciting when we get to know people,
For whose smiles we strive.

It’s nice how they treat us,
How they free us from the...

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Little Billy Henderson got himself a notion,
He thought that it sounded like a lark to swim across the ocean.

He was never much of a swimmer but he thought it should be easy,
Unless the waves grew...

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The survivor


 
 The pandemic has taken its toll, the survivors have fled to the woods
 the town is full of mice, rats have decided to stay in their sewers
 and sea-gulls get fat.
 The...

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