Smoke
is not good for the health.
But, when she nictitates,
it is hard not to fire up the hopes.
The way the pulse oscillates
when osculation takes place,
it is nature’s aerobic
warm ups for a faster race.
I am left to wonder why
the things that are full of sensory delight
are always forbidden or proven to be
bad for your health when over indulged.
Heaven must be the place
where calories are never counted
when I enjoy my favorite tastes.
Sugar draws bees and they often sting.
Sex is an endeavor we are not to
participate in unless it is for procreation,
else it is a sin. Our very lives depend
on touch. From the moment we are born,
we are dependent on every hug and caress.
But, as we get older instead of wanting it less,
we want to expand to have it be great sex.
Chocolate is also on the list. Its mysteries
are another path to bliss. Also it can lead
to padding on the waist and hips. I can,
only, leave you with this final thought:
Love is the only sure and safe path.
Everything else leads us astray and doesn’t
last. What is pure and deeply true
makes every day count, lets us sleep
and know peace is to love ourselves,
our God and share life with the one
who makes us feel complete.
11:01 PM
11/15/08
Alexandria, VA
Author notes
Nictitate - wink
Oscullation - kiss
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I am so in trouble after reading this Tomis.. everything that is forbidden I love...as far as Love is the only sure and safe path... hmmmm let me think about that one... l.o.l
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The truth is that living life is rich and full and even if moderation is the rule we would be fools not to enjoy what is before us. When we only feed our own selfish needs we tend to create problems and harm those about us. So, I would think, it is not the actions as much as the motivations that count and how much we keep our sense of love out in front.
Glad you stopped by. You might enjoy my newest one.
://allpoetry.com/poem/4907013#
Love, Tom B.
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Umm,
Smoking,chocolate,sex i am in so much trouble..
I mean okay my first thought was sex, cig, then chocolate in that order...
Actually this poem makes me think of willpower.
I can stop the chocolate if need be...but why, oh why did Our Creator make making love pleasurable if human touch wasn't right between man and wife?
If only meant for procreation. That would seem like a chore. Time to do the dishes...see what i mean.
As for a woman of 4 children (do i need more) No way! lol.
Human touch is vital to love know matter how used even lashes upon a cheek can make me giggle.
To be "one" can be the most precious time for a couple.
But coffee? forget it i am totally a coffee junkie as Jin says..!
Love
~Lisa~
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Don't always take me dead seriously, for there is always a wink and a smile hiding in many a line. This one was fun for me to write because I was poking fun at the idea that alll the good things in life end up becoming a sin, he says with a grin.
Love, Tom B.
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even tongue'n cheek there can be truths in what we speak.
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to be honest with you, I do not know what that statement means.that you just said about tongue n cheek...
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the phrase is "(with) tongue in the cheek." It means to speak ironically. I grew up hearing the phrase. I guess it is a colloquialism (sp?).
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well I asked my daughter who seems is smarter then I, and she said it means....even in jokingly sometimes wisdom is found....
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That is as good a definition as any.
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I can,
only, leave you with this final thought:
Love is the only sure and safe path.
Everything else leads us astray and doesn’t
last. What is pure and deeply true
makes every day count, lets us sleep
and know peace is to love ourselves,
our God and share life with the one
who makes us feel complete.
Absolutely touching and so amazingly brilliant. Sometimes I think if we could have everything we desire in our lives, we'd never want to go to heaven. I quit smoking, and choclate, and eating big bags of lays potato chips, and washing that all downwith a glass of cold milk. I quit going to bars, single's club, etc, because casual sex is right for some, but so not me. . .
Now, I think I', om the right path, because it's just coffee.
I love this,
Jin
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I wasn't trying to pick on any one thing. I will never turn down a kiss and a hug can turn up my whole day. I was just teasing the conscience by pointing out that they are just part of the path not the end in themselves. When learn that love is not to possess but the dynamic that allows us to be our very best and provide support and space to others so they may find their own path.
Just as I have always been loveing towards you. Truthfully, you made it easy to do. Fortunately you didn't turn it it into a "what do you want" or act like you weren't worth it in someway. Hopfully it helps and provides a little light when the darkness tries to steal away your sense of right.
I am far, far, far, from perfect, but not too bad a guy. My son loves me just short of worship and makes me feel I should be doing more somehow. I, still, listen in silence for a small still voice to echo inside. I think I am very fortunate because it happens from time to time.
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BUt I never did say how MUCH COFFEE, did I?
LOL
Always seem to leave that particular part out, honestly it more than Im willing to admit.
I dont make it easy (to love me), just ask the last guy that ran screaming for all the endurance testing I must perform. . .to the best of my ability, and to a lesser degree, fundamentally nutsy?
LOL
Yeah, okay Jin
Much Love Tom,
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down load the caffine
kick it into hyperdrive
Tom B.
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Tom I liked the opening from you. That is certainly an ounce of truth. I don't smoke and drink. Chocolate I can live with. This is a good write!
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We are built to share and be held and loved. We shine and are our best when we working together with others and feel a sense of belonging. We are wired that way. still it is easy to overindulge in material things. The spirit is kept strong when we focus on how to maintain our energy in the current of love. This leads to the center of everything.
Love, Tom B.
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i like the way you have added a subtle humor to this poem,it is very well done and so very true a message, lovely read
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My personal sense of humor is always at work. It is how I have survived most of lifes ups and downs. This one is rare because the sense of humor predominates, at least as much as it ever will. Glad you enjoyed my dance with temptation and how we are wired for integration.
Love,
Tom B.
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from temptation to heavenly bliss, we are all drawn out and enticed by our own desires...be it smoke, sugar are heavenly chocolate all things can lead one a stray...but as you said, we are all creatures of comfort and so badly need that human touch...for God is love and he instilled it in us
a wonderful and powerful piece with a sweet little chocolate twist to humorNiaish my Master Poet for sharing a smile with me
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We are built to share and be held and loved. We shine and are our best when we working together with others and feel a sense of belonging. We are wired that way. still it is easy to overindulge in material things. The spirit is kept strong when we focus on how to maintain our energy in the current of love. This leads to the center of everything.
Love, Tom B.
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how about flowers Tom
they look beautiful
they smell heavenly
and no bad side affects
unless you are alergic
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Ah yes, pollen. The first part of the birds and the bees.
Personally, I love flowers and enjoy gardening. But give the poem I have to tease.
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I was able to give up smoking
but chocolate is another story Tom...
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It is not always abstinance that is required, as much as seeking a sense of balance.
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Tom, there is no balance with chocolate...
I only crave it about 2 days a month
and believe me
there is no balance
it is more than a craving
it is a need
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Cravings and other internal stimulus of the overwhelming type is frequently aroused because we fear we will not be nice often enough to the self. Trust is a soil needed for love to blossom. The most important type of trust comes from within ourselves and our relationship to God.
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A rampant chocoholic
Chocolate is a psychoactive food. It is made from the seeds of the tropical cacao tree, Theobroma cacao. The cacao tree was named by the 17th century Swedish naturalist, Linnaeus. The Greek term theobroma means literally "food of the gods". Chocolate has also been called the food of the devil; but the theological basis of this claim is obscure.
Cacao beans were used by the Aztecs to prepare a hot, frothy beverage with stimulant and restorative properties. Chocolate itself was reserved for warriors, nobility and priests. The Aztecs esteemed its reputed ability to confer wisdom and vitality. Taken fermented as a drink, chocolate was also used in religious ceremonies. The sacred concoction was associated with Xochiquetzal, the goddess of fertility. Emperor Montezuma allegedly drank 50 goblets a day. Aztec taxation was levied in cacao beans. 100 cacao beans could buy a slave. 12 cacao beans bought the services of courtesan.
The celebrated Italian libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) took chocolate before bedding his conquests on account of chocolate's reputation as a subtle aphrodisiac. More recently, a study of 8000 male Harvard graduates showed that chocoholics lived longer than abstainers. Their longevity may be explained by the high polyphenol levels in chocolate. Polyphenols reduce the oxidation of low-density lipoproteins and thereby protect against heart disease. Such theories are still speculative.
Placebo-controlled trials suggest chocolate consumption may subtly enhance cognitive performance. As reported by Dr Bryan Raudenbush (2006), scores for verbal and visual memory are raised by eating chocolate. Impulse-control and reaction-time are also improved. This study needs replicating.
A "symposium" at the 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Science - hyped as a potentially "mind-altering experience" - presented evidence that chocolate consumption can be good for the brain. Experiments with chocolate-fed mice suggest that flavanol-rich cocoa stimulates neurovascular activity, enhancing memory and alertness. This research was partly funded by Mars, Inc.
Coincidentally or otherwise, many of the worlds oldest supercentenarians, e.g. Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) and Sarah Knauss (1880-1999), were passionately fond of chocolate. Jeanne Calment habitually ate two pounds of chocolate per week until her physician induced her to give up sweets at the age of 119 - three years before her death aged 122. Life-extensionists are best advised to eat dark chocolate rather than the kinds of calorie-rich confectionery popular in America.
In the UK, chocolate bars laced with cannabis are popular with many victims of multiple sclerosis. This brand of psychoactive confectionery remains unlicensed.
Chocolate as we know it today dates to the inspired addition of triglyceride cocoa butter by Swiss confectioner Rodolphe Lindt in 1879. The advantage of cocoa butter is that its addition to chocolate sets a bar so that it will readily snap and then melt on the tongue. Cocoa butter begins to soften at around 75 F; it melts at around 97 F.
Today, chocolates of every description are legal, unscheduled and readily available over the counter. Some 50% of women reportedly claim to prefer chocolate to sex, though this response may depend on the attributes of the interviewer.
In 2007, a UK study suggested that eating dark chocolate was more rewarding than passionate kissing. More research is needed to replicate this result.
More than 300 different constituent compounds in chocolate have been identified. Chocolate clearly delivers far more than a brief sugar high. Yet its cocktail of psychochemical effects in the central nervous system are poorly understood. So how does it work?
CHOCOLATE : the Psychoactive Cocktail
Chocolate contains small quantities of anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid found in the brain. Sceptics claim one would need to consume several pounds of chocolate to gain any very noticeable psychoactive effects; and eat a lot more to get fully stoned. Yet it's worth noting that N-oleolethanolamine and N-linoleoylethanolamine, two structural cousins of anandamide present in chocolate, both inhibit the metabolism of anandamide. It has been speculated that they promote and prolong the feeling of well-being induced by anandamide.
Chocolate contains caffeine. But the caffeine is present only in modest quantities. It is easily obtained from other sources. Indeed a whole ounce of milk chocolate contains no more caffeine than a typical cup of "decaffeinated" coffee.
Chocolate's theobromine content may contribute to - but seems unlikely to determine - its subtle but distinctive psychoactive profile. Surprisingly, perhaps, recent research suggests that pure theobromine may be superior to opiates as a cough medicine due to its action on the vagus nerve.
Chocolate also contains tryptophan. Tryptophan is an essential amino acid. It is the rate-limiting step in the production of the mood-modulating neurotransmitter serotonin. Enhanced serotonin function typically diminishes anxiety. Yet tryptophan can normally be obtained from other sources as well; and only an unusually low-protein, high-carbohydrate meal will significantly increase its rate of intake into the brain.
Like other palatable sweet foods, consumption of chocolate triggers the release of endorphins, the body's endogenous opiates. Enhanced endorphin-release reduces the chocolate-eater's sensitivity to pain. Endorphins probably contribute to the warm inner glow induced in susceptible chocoholics.
Acute monthly cravings for chocolate amongst pre-menstrual women may be partly explained by its rich magnesium content. Magnesium deficiency exacerbates PMT. Before menstruation, too, levels of the hormone progesterone are high. Progesterone promotes fat storage, preventing its use as fuel; elevated pre-menstrual levels of progesterone may cause a periodic craving for fatty foods. One study reported that 91% of chocolate-cravings associated with the menstrual cycle occurred between ovulation and the start of menstruation. Chocolate cravings are admitted by 15% of men and around 40% of women. Cravings are usually most intense in the late afternoon and early evening.
Cacao and chocolate bars contain a group of neuroactive alkaloids known as tetrahydro-beta-carbolines. Tetrahydro-beta-carbolines are also found in beer, wine and liquor; they have been linked to alcoholism. But the possible role of these chemicals in chocolate addiction remains unclear.
One UK study of the human electroencephalographic (EEG) response to chocolate suggests that the odour of chocolate significantly reduces theta activity in the brain. Reduced theta activity is associated with enhanced relaxation. This study needs replication.
Perhaps chocolate's key ingredient is its phenylethylamine (PEA) "love-chemical". Yet the role of the "chocolate amphetamine" is disputed. Most if not all chocolate-derived phenylethylamine is metabolised before it reaches the CNS. Some people may be sensitive to its effects in very small quantities.
Phenylethylamine is itself a naturally occurring trace amine in the brain. Phenylethylamine releases dopamine in the mesolimbic pleasure-centres; it peaks during orgasm. Taken in unnaturally high doses, phenylethylamine can produce stereotyped behaviour more prominently even than amphetamine. Phenylethylamine has distinct binding sites but no specific neurons. It helps mediate feelings of attraction, excitement, giddiness, apprehension and euphoria; but confusingly, phenylethylamine has also been described as an endogenous anxiogen. One of its metabolites is unusually high in subjects with paranoid schizophrenia.
There is even a phenylethylamine theory of depression. Monoamine oxidase type-b has been described as phenylethylaminase; and taking a selective MAO-b inhibitor, such as selegiline (l-deprenyl, Eldepryl) or rasagiline (Azilect) can accentuate chocolate's effects. Some subjects report that bupropion (Wellbutrin, Zyban) reduces their chocolate-cravings; but other chocoholics dispute this.
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Makes me want chocolate firstly lol then um...oh never mind
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Temptation comes in many forms, the paths they lead to are all well worn.
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That's why they taste good
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It is funny that the sense most strongly linked to memory is smell. Phernomes are subtle but powerful answers to the demands for the heart. Next time I see you, I will let you swim in the aromas of my choclate heart.
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