Hearing Aid Advertisements
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If, like me, you’ve been retired
for some time now, and your mailbox,
like mine, has become the repository
of all sorts of health advertisements –
vitamins, medicines, ointments, organ...
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Categories:
ointments, age,
Form: Free verse
MysticMist Eye Drops
...Introducing... MysticMist™ Eye Drops!
See the unseen. Blink into the beyond.
Are your regular eye drops leaving you… underwhelmed?
Do you yearn to gaze into the fabric of reali...
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Categories:
ointments, funny, humor, parody, satire,
Form: Free verse
Expensive Truth
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Thought doesn’t make any difference,
Or it does? It does in you!
and a bit in others too.
There is no end however,
To this, to that; Oh! Forever!
Why you want an end?
What’s that you wan...
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Categories:
ointments, conflict, confusion, courage, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
When Silence Speaks
...When silence speaks in broken dialects, to harmonize hurt,
I ponder, would the sky unravel synonyms for serenity,
amidst piercing thunder that strikes through raining regrets~
upon flowers, sway...
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Categories:
ointments, abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Bronzed coin Golden Championship Belt
...Tjhe Cretans have centered there
intentions
made foly of the traditions
stood in the Pool of Rightousness
to drink the wines of endearment and affection
callously they decieve
for those who bel...
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Categories:
ointments, character, jealousy, language, mentor,
Form: Ballade
The Wounded Soul
...The cut bashed from a hike in the woods , and the roll down the
Hill and the wound if not washed and dressed with the proper
ointment will fester and have a malodorous odor. The wounded
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Categories:
ointments, allegory, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Yearn For God's Plans
... "When we don't get what we yearn for, we must keep in mind that God has better things in store"
- by Poet
Sometimes life's not...
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Categories:
ointments, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Pills and Ills
...I have prescriptions coming out of my ears,
Do I take too many,
Something I fear.
I take so many pills and potions,
Ointments and such,
I now use a walker
Why do I need this crutch?
Age has ca...
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Categories:
ointments, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Let Wealth To Cure You
...Make dreams of midnight sleep-
the Ferrari in your head, sons and daughters
gossiping on your back, and sea foam as
your bed. Make them to baffle doctor.
Imaging calm heart, kissing an infant...
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Categories:
ointments, conflict, death, depression, dream,
Form: Free verse
Last Sigh
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The woman lying on the hospital bed
Silent, intuition discerning
The last breath, last sigh, goodbye
Whispered beneath a soft cry
From the soul who she was leaving behind
She had b...
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Categories:
ointments, caregiving, childhood, death, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Elixir
...Send me elixir back and bless me with the rain
The fruits of the sacred tree and the ointments of pain...
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Categories:
ointments, beautiful, blessing, color, death
Form: Footle
A Smoker Prostitute
...Her luring loin
And her customers’ seduced groin
Once again join
With a freshly released gold coin,
Even as she wasn’t his type
For being a smoker of a pipe
To whom final quitting could never ...
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Categories:
ointments, anger, beauty, character, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Words
...In the response to my letter
You have sent flowers of words
These words spread fragrance
In the stink room of my life
Just like a shawl in the cold
Which covers the body
In the same way,
Soft ...
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Categories:
ointments, fate, feelings, pain, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge
...These are poems about Ann Rutledge and her romantic relationship with Abraham Lincoln.
Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge
by Michael R. Burch
Winter was not easy,
nor would the spring return.
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Categories:
ointments, history, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Believed Protection
...There is an enemy too small to see with the naked eye.
The 1600’s, the 2000’s, years before and between –
Have seen its result. Waves of death and destruction.
And with each comes a new form of be...
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Categories:
ointments, death, old, sick, society,
Form: Rhyme
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