Quinine Poems - Poems about Quinine

Consequential Prez

...Trump says, Consequential Prez gets shot at,
Might e’en say, beauties ‘lone molested get!
Checked, if he felt all fine,  
Found, bitter than quinine--
A kind who e’en when clean-bowled, yells ‘ho...

Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live

...Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live

The following poetic account 
written more'n a dozen 
dirty dancing decades ago, 
while I (a socially 
withdrawn *****S...

Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled Adolescent

...Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...

therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?

Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered, 
and mortally wounde...

Tonic

...TONIC

Gin, with its memory of juniper
That imbues a certain sweet tang
But needs a slightly bitter contrast
To be well-rounded on the tongue
Relieved to deliver its full promise

Tonic water...

Late Explorer John Beecroft

...Why do these guys quit before seventy?
After achievements Life on Earth empty!
There was to be a Macgregor Laird:
Before sixty-one years to rest laid...

For my avid interest in History,
I coul...

Thru a Paroxysm of Tears

...Thru a paroxysm of tears...

I inconsolably wept a river of sorrow
starkly aware alienated daughter(s)
implacable woe sundered fatherhood
yesterday, today and tomorrow.

A series of unfortunat...

Body Wise

...Vitamin D for you for me
Sunlight and air; both still free
Quinine in tonic water clear
Filters blood in hearts so dear
To exercise in many ways
Four good steps to enrich your days.

©Joe Mave...

Still Dithering With Hesitation On Brink Ii of Abysmal Precipice

...Neither family nor scant friends twill mourn
severance outlook linkedin inextricably forlorn
accursed psychological agony since I got born
incessantly pilloried courtesy bullies hood scorn,
yours...

Nothing Boot Toe Till Rot and Duff Feet

...Nothing boot toe till rot and duff feet...

concerning yours truly
poor righteous leftist sole.

Great way to begin the new year
mine little feet about size nine wear
sneakers acquired At Ian'...

God Will Win

...In La Crosse we see it's not very pretty; a goliath is towering but Altman is gritty'
The numbers are stacked the way I see, but number One can make your enemies flee
I'd faced the foe five weeks i...

Dithering With Hesitation On Brink of Abysmal Precipice

...Infinite pitch black void zooms,
I vacillate to pitch headlong (head over heels)
where freedom looms
large (think) cosmic size grand canyon grooms
espouses, and cloisters unbridled wedded bliss
...

Confession of a Killer's Killer

...I killed a killer this morning! 
I gorged his eyes out with my naked hands
Counted his teeth one by one
Like pebbles on a plastic platter;
Belched after I drunk his cold blood
In a home-made che...

Wormwood

...Palm fronds clatter
in a Santa Ana wind
and I am bitter as quinine.
Leaves furl 
as the dead hands of summer
and I am bitter as wormwood.
The sun could burst in my anger,
leaves its fl...

The Enemy At Close Range

...

The enemy at close range
Loyalty sold for a piece of meat, a coin or a good dose of gossip


The enemy at close range
A friend with evil intentions
Searching for loopholes


...

Metaphoric Tissue Paper Cuts

...Obscurity's trenchant
     sorrows blotting 
        tissue paper cuts,
tears aptly smeared
    in hidden fears of
        first dashed allusions,
darkly flippant metaphors
       sans pass...

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