A cold stiff drink is the best remedy for heartbreak,
Something dark, alluring, a little cruel,
Like love now lost to you,
Now the classic jukebox remedy might soothe the fresh ache,
Turning wounded rejection into artful cool,
Or something just to cry to.
Prompt: from the kind writers over at the pub, dVerse, “Juke” as part of their Quadrille Series #131.
Discarded Recollections 
I think it’s a lot better to have something to cry to after a heartbreak… those stiff drinks make me think of the morning after when everything is ten times as bad.
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Oy, I remember when my college roomie broke up with his girl…she played the same song over and over again…it was only the bite of a bit of a drink that got me through that night…ha. i am thankful for 25 years of marriage and not having to taste the romantic kinda heartbreak…but then again I have kids and friends…which brings a whole differnt kinda heartbreak at times…
Pour me
another.
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This challenge seems to have stirred a host of memories! Great fun … and some great sadness as well.
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Oh, the heartbreak, and the songs to cry to!
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Oh the pain, the angst, the heartbreak! I resonate strongly with this one .. having had my share of men.. good-looking and utterly heartless.
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Love the last two lines. Oh the young heart throbs we listened to on the juke box…..and the boys we hoped we’d get to dance with and then, somehow, managed to “keep our cool” if we could, when Johnny walked right by us and asked Melinda to dance instead of us! Love going back and hearing the music…..sure wouldn’t want to go back and live those days though!
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I guess the juke boxes around the world have seen a lot of broken hearts and soothed quite some heartache with their tunes. Nicely woven
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Music is always there for us in the worst moments to help pick us back up. We all have our own ways to deal with heartbreak and heartache, and you describe it vividly. Music can definitely help heal that wound, and while it may take time, it’s how we resonate with the song that makes us feel not so alone in our pain, whether it be crying with it or just singing along. Beautifully, beautifully written and poignant as well.
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Those songs do help the tears flow. I choke up now to tunes like “Imagine” – and videos of the Beatles back in the day. What times those were!
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Love your poem … ‘artful cool’ is totally cool.
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Bend your elbow, tap your toes. Blues be gone, sooner or later.
Well done!
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Artful cool is nice but something to cry over would be fine too. Guess it helps a lot. Thanks for joining us.
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Drowning sorrows is the way to find some relief and often just the kind of trouble that helps one to forget. I like your non-intrusive rhyme scheme.
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My wife used to call those old country songs… tear in the beer songs! Heartbreak does crazy things to you and soothing the pain comes in many forms it seems. Well done.
Dwight
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Beautiful words.
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‘Turn up those sad songs!’ Sometimes a good cry is the best medicine. I love how music can provide that release.
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Your poem is so real, yet i’ve seen that scene so often in the movies.
Much💜love
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turn that jukebox up nice and loud. sad songs happy songs they are all there just drop in a coin and cry/dance/sing untill the sun rises. well shared
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There’s tear in my beer. Been in so many honky-tonk, country music bars, lost love is part of the décor. Very nice.
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Music listens and echos our pain. I like how you tell it here….”Turning wounded rejection into artful cool”
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Masa, I am such a sucker for good rhymes – and yours flowed and really pulled me in to the message of your poem.
❤
David
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