All Comments on 'Birthday Beatitudes (Sobriety Celeb)'

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

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.

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.

resemble a step program, TK U MLJ LV NV