Short Iodine Poems

Iodine or Wine
limited choices, indeed
   ~ No PCP weed?...

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You are my Valentine
   You look like Frankenstein
You smell like turpentine
   Your lips like iodine

You wear size twenty-nine
   You mope around and whine
But I like you mighty fine
   You're all I've got ~ You're mine!...

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Figment
Fragment
Fracture


Deep cut
Blood stains
Pain punctures


Iodine bites
Torn flesh
Scar tissue


Iodine ooze
Blood dyed
Strange tint


Wander
Broken
Wonder


Puncture
Poignant
Authentic


Pain hurls
Blood clots
Healing begins


Leon Enriquez
27 Apr 2014
Singapore...

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I crave your fire
your iodine tounge dipped in crystaline words
you tell me the tale of the snowdon sleepers
your eyes are coal
fuel through my vains
cresendo of my heart beat
you build song inside me
hold me, snake charmer!, story teller! lover! 
keep me in the warmth of your suspense...

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School Day Memories

My childhood relived
In memory's inner senses
Touch, nose, ears and eyes

Pain as I slip on waxed floor
Tears at the sight of my blood
The smell of iodine ointment

Hearing the school bell
Seeing my mother waiting

Yesterday's childhood revisited
Memory has no tomorrow...

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A Visitor from Japan

By Elton Camp

According to what the experts now say
Japan’s radiation has reached the USA
Up our backs should there run any chills
So we start gulping down the iodine pills?

No, it’s best for us to remain self-controlled
There’s not any danger as we’ve been told
To wild and scary rumors we turn a deaf ear
And don’t let fanatics induce panic or fear...

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Listen to poem:

Bronze tint glints from fractured
surfaces, peppered planes of salted
quartzite, eons old:
attributes peculiar to rock,
to stone, whose strength
no soft tissue could ever know.

No iodine suntan ever quite
approached that shade, nor ivory
smile's glow blinded
as its glassy show:

To this flinty hardness mind
never swoops; no human heart,
though cruel, could ever reach
its crystal cold....

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Everyone desires to enjoy food,
but we don't like food void of salt.
Salt is not only good for taste;
It is a nutrient required for life.

However, beware that salt can kill.
The oceans are filled with salt in the water
that would have to be treated for drinking.
Salt contains iodine, a nutrient we require.

070421PSCtest, Workshop: Adjectives deleted,                                           Jack Webster. 3P...

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Little of no Vitamin C
And Scurvy is what you shall see;
The iodine-poor diet: Goiter
And it’d continue to loiter:
A lot of pulsing and bouncing
Like a ball for a team’s trouncing;
On one’s sad neck hanging around,
Auto-immune disorders hound!

Then, somehow, can one it avoid
And have not The Bogus Thyroid: 
Lots of what richly give Iodine 
Safe diet, no Cimetidine...

Goiter not good for camera,
Snapshots skipping it chimera....

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TIDE IS OUT

The iodine of the seaweed smells
And the rattle of empty seashells
Trouble not the whale’s  sleep
While crabs scuttle to the deep


TIDE IS IN

Shriveled seaweed in basalt crevices revived
Fish skeletons  washed under the rocks
Boats slurp and plop out of the mud
Hungry  breakers eat afresh  the land
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Other poems of mine, similar to  this, are available at
https://www.fictionmagazines.com/magazines/five/...

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