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101 Poems to Get You Through the Day (and Night)

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A good introduction:
Diane Sawyer, a trusted and adorable person, uses innovative terminology to prescribe the antidotes she may tried to invite you "to Daisy Goodwin who collected all these tough, funny, angry, consoling antidotes to the demons of the average day."
Daisy Goodwin who proved her talent as a BBC television producer of top-rated television programs is sensitive and creative as a poetry anthology editor. Daisy who attended Cambridge, and Columbia University through a Harkness Scholarship, pursued similar across the Atlantic cultural diversity as Thomas Merton.

A poetry of hours:
"To help you find the right poem at the right time, the organization of the book is like that of a book of hours!" Amazingly true, a Horologion is organized to find the right psalm for the right hour, psalms are Hebrew poetic verses.
Another of the 101 Poems, has a simile to 'One thousand and one Nights' that saved Scheherazade's life, may suggest that if you read it accompanied by Korsakoff's Scheherazade you have a nice effective relief around the clock. Her earlier selection; '101 Poems That Could Save Your Life: An Anthology of Emotional First Aid' was introduced by NPR's Scott Simon, and Anne McKevitt, author of 'Style on a Shoestring' thanks Daisy Goodwin for; "giving me new horizons"

A Sampler of beauty:
From 'Getting out of Bed' to end of year Christmas Poem, you got guide posts for the day; Drivetime, Just say no, Call waiting, Toothache, Take 5, Going Home, One for the road, Not tonight, If you would like, try some of the shorter ones with me:

Friends like these:
Who, gratis, shared my social glass,
but when misfortune came to pass,
Referr'd me to the pump? Alas! My friend.

Two Curses for Love:
1 Don't see him. Don't phone or write a letter.
2 The easy way; get to know him better.

Cake:
i wanted one life
you wanted another
we couldn't have our cake
so we ate each other.