A Good Sense of Humor Blunts the Sharp Blades of Reality
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Cackles, snickers, chortles and squeals ease life's weight.
Laughter can completely reset our composure.
Humors random salves of mirth can ease feeling states.
Past times of paled poise we...
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Categories:
salves, cheer up, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Pantoum
My sweetest dear
...My sweetest dear
Whose eyes are my soul's elixir
Five moons upon us
As our dreams bend the stars
That paddock full of wild flowers
Now yields the softest grass
My hands passing over those see...
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Categories:
salves, love,
Form: Free verse
My Queen
...In the arms that love me
To the place that truly cares
Who is always there for me
Has seen my soul torn bare
Who smoothes the worlds serrations
And salves the heavy heart
My friend,...
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Categories:
salves, feelings, happiness, love, wife,
Form: Free verse
An Intimate Conversation
...May I serve
whatever the capacity --
and not be dissuade;
God knows His faithful,
not by glitter
nor by volume of voice,
but by salves of compassion
knowing no color
knowing no shades
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Categories:
salves, christian, forgiveness, friendship, love,
Form: Free verse
Whence it came
...Whence it came it did not say
unwelcome it decided to stay
Like a ghost it seem to float in the air
glance twice and was it ever here
From the land where the sea foam sprays
the morning moon mis...
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Categories:
salves, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Punishing a Defaulting Unionist
...Loosen now his tight valves.
You do nothing by halves
Not like you've bruised his calves
While he's not got what salves...
His tube deflate through valve:
With six-inch nail hit valve,
The a...
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Categories:
salves, allusion, betrayal, conflict, people,
Form: Rhyme
The Gym Rat
...Another day at the gym,
Pumping iron for the swell.
Aching muscles feeling grim,
As I put myself through hell.
Boneless chicken that I bake,
Egg whites keep me lean.
Protein powders in a shak...
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Categories:
salves, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ode to My Mother
...She was of this rich
earth and clay
a beautiful lass so full of life
and so wont at play
who used to water ski
in Turtle Bay
At Carnival time
costume in hand...
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Categories:
salves, death, dedication, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Ice Cream Sundae
...Ice cream sundae
on our steamy honeymoon
Strawberries on top
Hell! we don’t need no spoon
Shared between our Tongues
salves those shrivelled prunes
God! she’s one sweet Dish
and it’s still o...
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Categories:
salves, allusion, fun, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Fashion
..."...I don't know its name"
BUT!
Someone once said we were slaves to Fashion
I think they are right we feel sad depressed happy
or insane we go and buy a new dress a watch
or a sports c...
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Categories:
salves, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
My Aching Knees
...A rasping pain persists in my aching knees
Nothing brings relief, despite my pleas,
Salves and creams I’ve tried won’t assuage
Arthritis persists – it’s the bane of old age,
If you kn...
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Categories:
salves, pain,
Form: Quintilla
God
...GOD
Is god alive? Does he/she really exists and if they really exist there would have been some physical process by which they would have made known to us.
Let me tell you from my experience of ...
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Categories:
salves, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Game of Thrones2
...O The Pestilence ripens in the fields
as pest harvests the shops and till
Harvesting of diminished yields
To !REAL CONSPIRACY!
Sovereignty-PIRACY, tips the scales of justice,
feilty, unity, i...
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Categories:
salves, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme
The Game of Thrones
...O Self Righteous Mew Martyred Lost
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Dragons breath, and roasted lots
amongst the spit and gradually heated pots
crows, counted among the cost,
counting zeros,
onesies and Aftermath of As...
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Categories:
salves, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Kintsugi
...Searches for perfection abound -
creams for flawless complexion,
toothpaste for perfect white teeth,
diets to give one an ideal figure,
salves, make-up, lotions, hairspray,
an endless desire ...
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Categories:
salves, appreciation, beauty, character, perspective,
Form: Free verse
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