Short Inhaler Poems

Urchin on a cedar swing,
summer mist inhaler,
noonday shriek and frolic,
mother blowing fragrant blossoms
at her golden offspring.
Lavenders amid  the shrouded reverie
pave a mystic wonderland aglow...

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Liz Taylor 
 never married
  a sailor, retailer
   or a wholesaler
    or divorced a bailor
     or buried a tailor
      or used an inhaler
       or lived in a trailer
        or dated Norman Mailer
         or kissed a whale or
          even was jailed her
           whole life as a derailer...

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Allergies 2010
Written: by “Britches”

Springtime pollen on zephyrs ride
It causes chills and makes me heave.
The torment caused I cannot hide
And from inside I dare not leave.

It makes eyes water and head to hurt
I wheeze, hark and frequently sneeze.
Then grab my inhaler for a quick squirt
There’s no enjoying a springtime breeze.
...

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A body housing three diseases
With three more as the visiting ones:
Enjoy he does just brief releases,
On some days obliged to laugh but once...

A rough fate acting as it pleases;
Each time he dumped his drugs worse than dunce
Cimetidine that Ulcer eases
Or else a body hit on each ounce
Inhaler against the longest wheezes;
No Ciproxin, Salmonella pounce......

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Winter air
Sleet, snow,
Blank, white

Ice piercing skin
Daggers
Against a face,

Side stitch,
Stone-cold breath,
One foot in front of another,

No inhaler can fix this ache,
That pricks at my neck,
And bites down my chest

No place to warm my hands,
No one to
Comfort my strained gasps

It stings,
Sharper than whiskey,
Down my throat

But the high
Is also ten folds
Greater
...

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Jumping for joy on winter’s day
Forgetting I need an inhaler
Hoping to glean a healthy way
I refuse to be a wailer.

Mind over matter works for me.
I talk myself out of wheezing.
When the cold snow surrounds each tree
Even when the weather is freezing.

I in no way have to meddle
On this glorious winter day of gray.
Sit on a bench and quickly settle,
Listening to the caw of cloud’s bluest jay....

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         WIND

         Me the most valuable,
          rather indispensable.
          Great element of Nature.
         in Past, Present and Future.
           
        Life will continue to grow,
         so long I intend to flow.
        Me constructing Atmosphere.
        Sense as constant inhaler.

        Me , an amazing aspect.
        I do deserve your respect.
        Breathe in full to enjoy life.
        Free supply : None deprived....

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a soda fanatic
a tv hound
an armchair fiend
a couch potato....fried....not baked

i am fooling myself here
i miss you and that's just why
too bad you are no longer here to hear it
it is six years exactly today
the inhaler still sits by the picture you took twenty-four hours before
when i said goodnight to you, i never thought i would really be saying goodbye

a sucker for tearjerkers
a new connoisseur of tragic plays
a soap opera rookie....blue....not green...

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