Short Tonic Poems

what is u...b...what u r

stans sand...

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The greatest tonic is laughter, 
It's as refreshing as water....

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THEY GAVE THE CAT A TONIC.....NOW HE IS.


John G. Lawless
©5/8/2019...

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Quite pliable plump.
Makes soulful sough souffle sound.
Tonic topical unbar country funny....

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Platonic is quite moronic
As our nature is hedonic
For every lure
God grants a cure
My mum says its gin and tonic...

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thoughts of you
in dreams swirl in my head
time released tonic



AP: 3rd place 2025

Posted on April 29, 2025...

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Lemon and reef sharks
Upside down, enter tonic 
Immobility



http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/nature-4.php...

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I want a tonic
a cure all
drink up, Alice
throw the bottle vehemently
onto hard land
cancer be…  d @ # n e d

11/6/2020...

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There once was a thin man named Joe Donic.
Who all people believed was a comic.
He developed a drink,
made a million we think,
by selling us his brown snake oil tonic....

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Johnny eats pasta under soft light
He was a prize fighter with a pregnant wife
Always buys his hair tonic from the same guy
His mudda was his hero
His fadda beat him wise...

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His skin tone
His stares
And how he walks
With confidence
His body so serious
Smooth just like silk
A tonic for the eyes
Like a beautiful flower
Everyone in appreciation....

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HAIR GARDEN~

My mans looks like a Mr. Clean,
think's being bald makes him obscene,
tried a hair tonic,
dome he applied it,
now's got Chia hair that is garden green.



10-13-16...

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Playing the piano is like a tonic for my soul.
It soothes my heart, and fills a spacious hole.
Mozart is so beautiful, it is my favorite.
But when I play the heavenly hymns, I savor it....

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I
Here it is vetkoek
Mince, homemade roll, Rooibos -
She doubles as nurse - blessed home

*Rooibos is sold in USA, but is an export of South Africa. Great health tonic, tea ... No caffeine...

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oh the limerick it ain’t quite a sonnet
and the learned, they look down upon it
for they cannot grasp
its head or its ass
nor the cleansing effect of its tonic


John G. Lawless
6/18/2017...

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Trump Health Checkup Periodic

Trump health checkup became periodic,
And are sure and certain he is psychotic;
Is always afraid, 
Of queen a spade;
Started a new drink called Trump tonic.

Jim Horn...

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Enticingly juicy
Melting on the burning 
Lips of passion
Stretching tongues to lick
But soured drops long left over
Icings of deadly venoms
Ooh greedy zealots
Gulping to stupor
Concoctions for all such gluttons...

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Vitamin D for you for me
Sunlight and air; both still free
Quinine in tonic water clear
Filters blood in hearts so dear
To exercise in many ways
Four good steps to enrich your days.

©Joe Maverick 7-2-2023...

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These words I write may not be worth much to you
perhaps a glass of prosecco or cheap chardonnay
bottom shelf bourbon and soda, tonic and Tanqueray
You have no concept of what they cost me
the price that I must pay...

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Mom used to drink this wine for a tonic,
I had no idea she meant a colonic.
So I snuck some of this swill,
moved more than an EX LAX pill
cause the gas sounds were quite polyphonic!


Written 6/22/2011 for the ‘Bottle of Wine” contest...

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What creates a mood
better than music
A tonic to fill
the empty spaces
 and writer’s block

What transports the words
better than music
As Elton, Paul
and Cole have shown
— its gift to reign supreme

(The New Room: March, 2025) 
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a sept-tonic...to wake up...

woke early...this morning with...
a question in mind about...
time travel...fuel...exhaust...


input...output...be time change...
different pasts or futures...
mean 'bodies'...remain behind...

stans sand...

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Another Gin and Tonic Horn Limerick

Must I drink another gin and tonic
To tolerate Trump who is moronic
Jumping from hole to hole like a rabbit
Constantly complaining when cannot have it
Grows on you like a plague that is bubonic.

Jim Horn...

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Your life gave me the reasons
To wake up in the cold
Your talking sounds like music
And stops me getting old
Your smiles warm as sunshine
The tonic for my soul

Your crying draws me to you
Your pain my biggest fear
Because you know I'm your Daddy
I wash away you tears...

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A tonic that I inhale,
Can save me from this endless day, 
but I have a dream
that one day I will live without useless things,
be free from all materials keeping me down,
and I will be like a tree content within the forest,
happy and free where I choose to slumber....

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