Short Salves Poems

Talent to amuse
Trivial?
Salves the pains of life...

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Galactic gales of worldly rows
Binds unto the carpets of earthly vows
Beyond the briny waters is the land of stars
Scintillating with vibrant thoughts 
Scattered hopes of all sorts
The waves that follow the creative salves
Roars and rises to nourish the new calves...

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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 know what works, oh, tell me please.

written March 5, 2022...

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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 only Afternoon 

I scream Sunday!
on this torrid day in June 


Ice Cream Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward
06/22/22...

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Memories are all I have,
Intense and suffocating.
Churned out emotions needing salves
Healed, yet unrelenting

Abject surrender to your wiles
Embittered by time
Looming reminiscence of your smiles
Sealed in my mind

Anguishing on a future lost
Grieving over what once was, 
Agonizing at what it has cost
Remembering mem'ries of a distant past...

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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, lover and confidant

Oscar winner in every part

Though we drive each other crazy

It’s the spaces in between

The mortar between my bricks

My copilot and my Queen
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Poems are treasure trunks    
   containing...
Mirrors that reflect the soul 
Pop-up books that surprise us    
   with unexpected truths
Love letters never sent    
   and those received 
Exotic salves to heal emotional scars
Signs that make one stop and think
Notes reminding us about who we are   
   and where we came from
Guides to the future
Reminders of the past
Keys to happiness...

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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 air in tube to halve;
When cops into it delve,
Say "A case of mad valve!"

Ask me my opinion:
It's a heart cast- iron:
A daring to pinion
The arms of one's union,
Dues slicing like onion
In Crowned Lion's Union....

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My heart in motion 
palpitates a wild tarantella, 
resonates vibrant valves 
and grieves for you, 
my choosing. 

Then juiced on devotion, 
elevates a blue umbrella, 
supplicates and salves, 
in letting go, 
fears losing. 

The reversal of motion 
integrates calming distance, 
initiates fast retreat, 
this failing heart 
lest I forget it. 

No more to cry an ocean, 
abdicates my once insistence, 
resuscitate a love so sweet 
become my life, 
and not regret it....

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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 seeded heads
As the wind sways them to you

We meet there one day
One day, any day , every day
Finally that dream awoken 
Nervous hands with nervous eyes

A remedy for our racing hearts 
Salves the skin that knows not touch 
As the same air saturates us
We yield unto each other
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