books poems

i agree with Meihan Boey

that books never yell at you

Poems don't either. 

they just draw you in and 

soothe you so

Here is my personal dispensary, 

Try it out and see

For a headache, read Howl by Allen Ginsburg

For a heartbreak, read 

For one of those days read Men are like Bloody Buses by Wendy Cope

For when you are homesick, 

read La Mian in Melbourne by Boey Kim Cheng 

For when you are grieving,

read Stop All The Clocks By Auden

For when you mourn a hero, 

read Oh Captain My Captain

For a dose of shock and awe, read Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath 

When you are sick of homework read Homework Machine by Shel Silverstein 

When you are tired of Literature read Introduction to Poetry 

When you are bored in a meeting read Celia Celia by Adrian Mitchell

When you are overwhelmed by the troubles of the world read The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry 

For a laugh any time of the day, read Brian Bilston 

When you need to defend libraries libraries or reading read Don't go into Libraries by Alberto Rios

For when you are lost read Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken 

For when you are sick of fairy tales read Roahl dahl's revolting rhymes 

For love's steady heartbeat read Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day by Shakespeare 

For when you are feeling rather pensive, 

read Daffodils by Wordsworth

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I agree wholeheartedly that books never yell at yothey are always there, waiting for you 

For a cold read 

For a headache read

For a heartbreak read

For dealing with loss read 

poems to reference 

because I could not stop for death 

stop all the clocks 

homework machine 

if by Rudyard kipling 

Wendy cope 

for a laugh, read the future kok wei Liang 

for homesickness read boey Kim Cheng noodles 

for quiet in a mad world read all we want is people to be nice ... 

for love read my mistress eyes are not like the sun 

to lift up gloom read nature's first gold is green 

for wonder and awe read Lady Lazarus 

futility of war 

the news 

for when a hero dies oh captain myn

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men are like bloody buses