Short Lithium Poems

To keep it short and pithy, um,
    if truth be told, it's lithium…

                                the energizer bunny...

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Lithium keeps me current
On river raft sans torrent
Dreaming by cloud tufted sky
Scoring rustic lullaby
Hands caressing cool water 
Passing coarse cliffs which totter
Lithium keeps me current...

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Blissfully on cloud nine or
Irritable beyond all recognition
Policing yourself to not hurt yourself
Only to hope its not to completion
Longing to be healthy and stable
Aggressive to the outsiders who 
Recommend Lithium for you...

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when i play guitar
for real
i can bend the notes
only so far

in my mind

when i play guitar
i can bend the notes
beyond the breaking strings
beyond the bleeding fingertips

in reality
the lithium
keeps a lid on things....

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this is the machine,
you are the lithium cells,
blue or red pill, flask to fill,
take them both_with gin,
send it for a loop, make it spin,
carnival of corona limestone.

can there be two wolf pups
with the same eyes_?

moon opens to reveal the face in skies....

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open heart
willing hands
happiness abounds

maniacal feelings
lithium helps
sheer sadness now

high on life
whizzing around room
love for strangers

cutting begins
worthless feelings
life seems hopeless

joyfulness out of bounds
entertaining love for life
falling to doom...

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Is the power that keeps our love alive 
It's energy resolving in tons 
All around my living soul
Stuck in my mind that only you behold 
The Lithium 
Controls me like sounds of your voice 
Soothing my very being 
Like liquid water in the stream 
Your energy runs right through me 
Your lithium...

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this is 
Captain James Kurt
of the 
Federation Starship Enterprise
Scottie, we need more power
aye captain but 
i 
can't give her to you
no more because
the
bloody lithium crystals
have busted
and 
she can't take it
no more captain
and
she can't handle
anymore warp speed commanding
lassies is finally broken...

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his love slaps me hard
it infuriates me so
my time is mine now

i create myself
my orange pinks swirl inside
dalis hand is out

leave me alone please
do not slow down my lone wolf
we are on a tear

sure lithium helps
my mind is a whirl now
painting is my thing

dont enrage me
poetry is a side kick
no room for people...

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Anemone wind 
with tendrils retracting and pulling us in
Impregnable sea
whispering: "You'll never dive into me"
Silk spinning clouds
unravel and open the heavens to sounds
Lithium sun
Energy pumping the system to run
Universe kiss
stratosphere pressed with invisible lips
Film of dust me
still on my tiptoes attempting to see......

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Heavy metals make you dumb.
Arsenic, Gold, Plumbum.

Those metals take from the dome.
Why not try nickle, iron, or chrome?

Chlorine, sulfur, and radon will take away your breath.
Carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen can make meth.

While mercury, zinc, and copper were known to the boomers,
lithium, silicon, and titanium were just late bloomers....

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lithium
element of exploitation and mayhem 
used in rechargeable batteries
prevention of Alzheimer's disease
spacecraft and nuclear reactors
advanced war weaponry..
They say a trillion dollars worth
is under the blood and burn of Afghanistan
was it ever really about freeing the oppressed
and sowing the seeds of democracy
Xi is licking his lips...

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We’re Manic.
 Depression?
Still in question
        Not for me
My mother knows, I sleep, in shoes
dirty clothes
with lithium
    bottles
          strewn

I chain myself
in working
          panic

She’s Manic

She talks at speed
   too fast for 
God’s
Prayer to read 
Excited, beyond 
the force - Indeed
we’re manic
compulsively free...

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~ ~DURING THE RIDE~ ~
high waves sheer lunette
miles of lithium popping  haze
air carousels swoon

crisp thrills up up there
mountain cones scaling bite-size
crazed arms touching moon

~ ~ AFTER THE RIDE~ ~
why, what's so funny
with wonderbra i'm wearing
down my waist, floppy!



 (( for S*K*A*T's  air balloon ride contest :))...

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The mood stabilizer, and 
Crushed air.
The hurt of thoughts, for 
Our songs of care.

But, 
I’m so happy, because
Today, I found my friends, 
They’re in my head. And
I’m not gonna crack.

Swiftly now, 
Through our veins
It swims.
Anti-depressants, 
…Our favorite sins.

Sing and dance, for 
Worries have no control.
The drug, the contents, that
We behold....

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chemical crane,
 lithium albatross.

 iodized magnetic zion
  in my head.

  i'll run for days,
 inside a solar haze.



corrosive reduction 
under the sun.

the old search for
 the purified lithium.


metallic filter to drain
 the silt.

empty the heart of all
 its guilt.

  
so salt the cracker and 
absolve the sin.

 an alkaline base full 
 of wrinkled skin....

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Eunice tried to break the cycle;
caught again, hunched at the plug,
charging up the unicycle.

Many thought it rather strange,
but as for me, I simply shrugged.
Anxious, she, about its range.

Ignorant, this thief, methinks..
Like a whisper, off this thug,
had she known it was a Lynx.

Now she's truly living large,
daydreams oft of lightning bugs
in a cell with brand new charge....

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ONE SMALL STEP

Saw writing on the wall, I swear
There was a warning symbol there
Your trip in space, a bad affair

Short by one extra mile

We’ve come so far from planet Earth
Where of lithium there’s a dearth
Mining is more risk than its worth

Short by one extra mile

Due to land on this unique moon
I guess we did ignore that rune
We ran out of fuel just too soon

Short by one extra mile...

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Fictitious families
Dysfunctional means
Compromised children
Capricious teens

Serrated self-loathing
Culling scarred skin
Dapper diagnoses
Dulling depression’s din

Psychotropic pulses
Sedentary screams 
Subjugated subjects
Catharsis of dreams

Dusk dawning
In convenience’s vanity
Vociferous voices
Pilfering sedated sanity

Slurred smiles
Lithium lies
Hanging from vestiges
Suicide survives...

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Helium Lithium, Beryllium
They all rhyme,
which is the only way I can remember them.
Au is gold,
O is oxygen,
I’m not trying to be bold,
but life sucks without both of them.
Nitrogen, hydrogen
are both gases,
but that doesn’t mean they have the same masses.
Those are some of the elements in the periodic table that I find important.
I really don’t know much about the rest,
because in science class I never passed those test...

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Children of stink, cannot smell the rose.
Lithium in their blood
fathers were happy.

Power over the fire of groins,
was a music to ears.
Everything else was secondary.

The wishes squealed
on the mattresses.
Grief was served in the bed.

Big tears flowing
on the cheeks of ice.
Antarctica was crying.

Sexed up vendetta
did not kill a fly.
Bee was hovering over the heads.

I will expand till infinity.
Life will take care
of ferocious clauses.


SATISH VERMA...

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Go ask Alice in her padded cell,
how she took a tumble and fell.
Down a rabbit hole of illusion,
Whom now don’s a straightjacket of confusion.

Go ask Alice with her veins full of Lithium,
how she surrendered to her delirium,
of smoking caterpillars and a grinning feline.
Who’s attached to an Intravenous mainline.

Go ask Alice about her sanity,
how it vanished in this asylum of rhapsody.
In a fog that is translucent and hypnotic. 
In her Wonderland with painted narcotics....

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Light larkish lackadaisical lassie lithe and lean
Measured Mesopotamia’s millionth mammoth, not all mean
Nonetheless, noticing the level of lithium in a coffee bean,
Opposing ornery ocelots who are seldom city seen

Providing palatable parables to Patty, platypus who loves to preen
Quarreling with irksome quail-herders who captivated lassie’s queen
Resisting relatives reaching for gardenia’s gruesome globs of green
Stalwart soldiers seriously slicing sluggishness from a computer screen....

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