Birthday Beatitudes (Sobriety Celeb)

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We meet monthly to mark milestones,
gather in gratitude with God-given grace.
Stumble in a scarecrow, straw for brains, stuffing spilling out.
Seek solace from similar sufferers who suggest a solution.
Determined to deny that drink, a day at a time.
Whine ‘why me’ – wisdom from winners will work if we want it.
We labor to lose liquor, learn to live and let live.
Faith over fear, find first things first.
Easy does it, decide to try another day.
Memorize our main mantra to mesmerize our mind:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.

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tazz317tazz317over 11 years ago
THE BEATITUDES

resemble a step program, TK U MLJ LV NV

greenmountaineergreenmountaineerover 14 years ago
Loved it

I struggle sometimes with how wide a reading audience there should be with a poem. I'm sure others passed this by, just from the title. Others may have glimpsed a few lines and moved on. With me, I spent a long career, familiar with AA or, more precisely, those who struggled with this addiction. So the poem had special meaning for me.

I liked the alliteration. It reminded me of the twelve steps. Maybe I'm too epigrammatic here, but I found myself counting the lines in the poem after I read it and wondered why you didn't end it in 12 steps (i.e., lines) because for me this was "12th step work" you've done here and did so nicely.

EroticOrogenyEroticOrogenyover 14 years agoAuthor
I wrote it just for that purpose

I definitely needed AA - probably wouldn't be here without it (now 27+ years).

When I lead my Wed. men's meeting, like I did this month, I have handouts as the focus for our discussion (one month I led like everyone else and got flack for it). In the past I've assembled things from the web on some worthy subject. This month I used some of my poems. 3 were one's I had posted before(Spirit Solution Sense, Twelve, and Serenity - last with a related page from the past). This one I wrote for our 'birthday' meeting. They really loved it - someone wanted my permission to send it to AA Grapevine magazine, which I approved.

Feels funny voting on my own poem, but my group did.

normal jeannormal jeanover 14 years ago
when I was in rehab

it was state run facility and only those who have endured that hell would understand. However, I do not drink, at all. and when forced to attend AA I would argue, rant, scream " I am NOT an alcoholic."

Now I realize, addiction is addiction, regardless of the drug.

I admit, I don't care all that much for the quantity of alliteration as you have put in here, still, this was a good poem. It could be better, but you got the message across and that is what matters.

good work :)

~NJ