Recovering Poems

Survival Tips for Recovering Cynics

One:
Wake up slowly.
Admit it was never that deep.
Let your first word be hmmm.
Let your second be whatever.

Two:
Stretch, but not like you mean it.
Pop one joint, then stop.
You are not an overachiever.
You’re alive. That’s enough.

Three:
Brew something hot
and unnecessarily complicated.
Call it process.
Sip. Sigh.
Spill a little on purpose.

Four:
Reintroduce yourself
to color.
Start with gray.
Work up to a muted mustard.
No pressure.

Five:
Trust

Recovering Hope

                            **(Recovering Hope***





                        Existing in

Recovering

smoldering fire pit 
recovering from last night 
like two drunken men

Strong Winds Recovering

Twenty-four hours ago,
the wind ran across the lake searching for a place to land.
Some shingles followed, torn from their topless roots.

This morning there is some abuse,
feathers fly on their own,
the mallards are whispering in the huddled reeds,
however, daylight stubbles upright
into a high-rising sky.

The television is predicting clear sight soon.
The radio coughs, and stutters, its talk
flutters

Chicken Soup For a Recovering Mind

After a brief illness, some dry toast
and the turgid sloshing of rehashed thoughts.

Slowly the former becomes the new now.
I bathe in new invigorating light.

This is how we recreate our world;
with carefully paced electro-chemical reactions,
brittle notions are chewed soft like moccasins
until they fit new feet and legs.

This is how we create a life
no sudden catharsis or

Recovering Addict

"Powerful addictions sink their long, hooked talons into the afflicted, latching on" - quote by poet


          Life is hard for Rod, an addict 
               Living with chronic pain
    

Recovering Alone

My abduction is near. 

But there is nothing left inside me to cure!

Before I even have time to be willing-

They take my brain for a drilling. 

And then free me into my doom. 

They let me live in the wilderness, where there is plenty of room. 

I will circle the trees, as if to find

A Forever Recovering Addict

The door opens.
And a shadow looms.
That’s the one!
A hand is given.

Paper, metal, plastic.
It’s all the same.
Its all as grand as the other.
Desperation does not discriminate.
Nor greed, nor desire, nor hunger.
All is welcome!

A bright light leads the way.
I look ahead.
Below the shield lay not poison, but medicine.
It tastes terrible. 
But I take it.
The light goes out

Recovering White Survivalists

I've now read evolutionary
and feminist historians
and economists
and political scientists
agreeing, in a side by side custody
of the over-specialized eyes
and ears
non-dialogical way

Not competing against each other,
except maybe for journal space,
nor actively cooperating with each other,
beyond normal ethical Golden Rule academic standards,
occasionally co-opting hybrid terms
from each other,
word choices, if you happen to be a historical communication 
paradigmatic systems

On Recovering

Having been smitten 
   with cancer 
and with spinal troubles 
  I take my recovery 
     quite 
     seriously 
   I feel the power of the "chi" 
  in the depths of my being 
  No longer do I 
despair

A Recovering Soldier

A soldier we have fighting for us,
   his time is done, his recovery is a must.
  Where does he go, who does he turn to,
   questions he should not ask, it's up to me and you.
  Did he not protect us, give his all,
   it's time for

Recovering

Outgunned by life,you escape 
to epipheny. The inner- 

voice had betrayed. Are you
ready to meet the believer ?

Sad ending of mithridatism- 
in the wake of realization.   

The growing clout of pink petals
was overwhelming the dust.

The leaf body mimics the 
rocks. From the rear ocean 

a wailing picks up the blackberries.
I was ready for

I Am Recovering

Hm, unchain me from my pit of poverty
My pit of impure pity and messed-up misery – let it go! Misery, let me go! You 
won’t let me light up with delight though
Ohhh, living this lie with or without you, you see?
Change me inside out, oh Lord…I can’t afford to pay up my debt, reducing me

A Recovering Academic

Looking for meaning 
     Too many meaningless things
           Our lives are cluttered
               We must work towards uplifting    
      

Recovering From You

Heartache
Caused by you
Misunderstood
Learning to walk away
Freedom


Laughter
Caused by him
Loved and cherished
Learning to trust again
Hopeful

Eileen Manassian Ghali

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