Short Cured Poems

seventeen-year wait
cicadas’ sweet serenade …
tinnitus is cured...

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Hoping or hopping?
Both command your faith but one
is cured by crutches...

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YOU LEFT

Pcillin cured

the obscured



* for the Footle contest....

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His Elixir
Depression crushed him;
Passion was his mithridate,
A good shag cured him....

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His Elixir
Depression crushed him;
Passion was his mithridate,
A good shag cured him....

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Listen to poem:

Mosquito buzzes a bug light, irked with its lure, close in for a cure.

Date: 08/28/2019...

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stand firm and be cured
                                         walk proudly in the yander
aentince aworlal...

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I must concede, I must confess
My wisdom’s from unhappiness: 
The insight of the salty tear
Stings my cloudy vision clear....

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A warning to all Jacks and Jills,
"The world is full of manmade ills
that can't be cured by manmade pills."

Won 6th place...

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All illnesses 
Get well soon
A leaf or a root 
Raw or ripe a fruit 
Let them cured 
Live long creatures
Caring the nature...

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I wish to be pure
Like these roses,my words sent
Innocent labels.
Let your whiteness be my bed
My reverence clean and cured....

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Sugar-cured prawn omelette
pumpkin risotto
a fusillo with meat balls
and spiced aubergine
ricotta cheesecake
goosberry
Fool !...

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portobello mushroom soup
tracle cured salmon
asparagas and poached egg
runner bean chutney
gooseberry cobbler
ginger beer
Cheer !...

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I suppose I had promised to be forever cured. 

I suppose I am only a little bit cured. 

I suppose that’s not the perfect promise....

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In healing there is believing 
In believing there is healing 
For faith of being cured 
May be the answer to unpleasant feeling 

May 21, 2023...

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To fill sausage links takes some stuff 
Slow-cured in moist air it's not tough
We always savor 
The paprika flavor 
Since pork salt and wine's not enough...

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Dried or cured meat with egg and fried rice 
With little fried garlic as spice 
Your mouth waters for every slice 
It brings luck to every dice 

May 8, 2023...

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Flung open to
Which stepped out view
A window's, to contain
Given up on
Freshly aired lured
All of him cured
Of sea breadths, which, a-glow
Spark religion....

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much pain
incurred?

sounds like
a turd

be not
deterred

with time
heart’s cured

—————

Response to Caren Krutsinger’s A Little Bird Told Me...

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After booking for a consul-tation,
The doctor prescribed medi-cation,
But when I stood on a rake,
Then stepped back on a snake;
That’s what cured my consti-pation....

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Bandit of Youth

Stolen from an 
unknowing crusade
to enlightenment,

turned to a wheel of
carefully cured cheddar
advanced age seems sudden.

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins...

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For the Idol I sang
with a screech and a twang
caused by a cold in my throat
well I passed the audition
but I cured the condition
now they tell me I can't sing a note!...

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An exotic  lunch to serve your boss:
The Aussie Salad with Sheep Dip Sauce!
The flavour's unique
(When cured at its peak)
Though kissing cousins may wish to floss...

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When his wife caught her spouse fooling around
he claimed a medical reason sound:
I have an affliction—
A hot chick addiction!
Now he’s cured—six feet under ground

1/28/22...

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God Had Increased

All of the food to eat, God increased;
Baking bread helped raising of yeast;
To be endured,
He had cured;
Controled husband when a big beast.

Jim Horn...

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