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Recovering Poems - Poems about Recovering

Premium Member 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...

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Categories: recovering, moving on, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Recovering Hope
**(Recovering Hope*** Existing in...

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Categories: recovering, hope, inspiration,
Form: Nonet



Premium Member Recovering
smoldering fire pit recovering from last night like two drunken men...

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Categories: recovering, fire,
Form: Haiku
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...

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Categories: recovering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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...

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Categories: recovering, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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 ...

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Categories: recovering, addiction, life,
Form: Free verse
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...

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Categories: recovering, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: recovering, courage, forgiveness, life, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: recovering, community, culture, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
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...

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Categories: recovering, cancer, inspiration, joy,
Form: Blank verse
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...

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Categories: recovering, america, care, hero, military,
Form: Lyric
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...

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Categories: recovering, art,
Form: ABC
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...

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Categories: recovering, angst, beauty, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Lyric
A Recovering Academic
Looking for meaning Too many meaningless things Our lives are cluttered We must work towards uplifting ...

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Categories: recovering, growth,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member 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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Categories: recovering, recovery from...,
Form: Cinqku

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