Best Ailment Poems

P-andemic
A-ilment
N-otoriously
I-mplements
C-oronavirus

B-y
U-sing
Y-our
I-nfected
N-eighbors'
G-athering

Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Once my prime human fortress, indeed great
Now, he's helpless... gripped with paralysis
My father who aided my first step-straight
Needed lifting-up on a constant basis.

His strength, blessed by God's help, became my might
My growing he guided with His wisdom
How I nestled in his caring delight
Around his loving disciplined freedom.

Seeing Dad struggling, oppressed by ailment
Presses me for faith's...

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I despise you every day  
Pills needed to make pain go away
Tried so many to help me through
A pain free day, impossible that's true.

Patches,nerve blocks,try Botox
Acupressure, acupuncture, re-adjust
Ice and heat, new pills this week
Go down on one, go up, don't peak.

Withdrawals from one, effects from another
Lost another week, I want my mother,
Comfort, understanding someone...

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Thirty years I have lived with chronic heart disease,
After heart surgery at fifty, more problems arrived,
I have felt like I am living on a high-wire trapeze
With faith in God and medical care I have survived.

After heart surgery at fifty, more problems arrived,
Diabetes, severe gout, arthritis – they all struck
With faith in God and medical care...

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Autumn sneaks early into September
With cloudy days and cooler temp,
A feeling of fall in the morning air
Arthritis is back, causing me to limp.
Thank goodness for dear ol’ Ben Gay
With his sweet smell of peppermint,
He helps me make it through the day
By applying his soothing, minty scent.
The pain is real, the ache depresses
With stiffness that won’t...

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A Common Ailment

Eleven o´clock in the forenoon I had been to my 
doctor and was going into the nearest cafe for
a coffee, but soon the city dwellers filled the place 
with the smell of unmade beds, uncombed hair
and the despair of lonely nights. The fresh bun I was
 eating absorbed it all and I could...

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Such a tormenting and hateful act,
In the heavens a very accepted fact, 
Love torments more than a tormenting plague, 
With such meaning awfully obscure and vague,

Once so pure thought to be,
Used in anger plaguing eternity,
Now a sin tormenting a pious fool,
A sin so aloof and used as a tool,

Tool of humans used as a weapon,
To...

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My next-door man was a postman
He stunted gimmicks like Tarzan 
I met a constable
And told him my trouble
He said, “I can’t treat your ailment”. 


Syllable count: 8, 8, 6, 6, 8 (I used howmanysyllbes.com to count syllables.)...

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Shirley is in constant pain, but she does not take it out on anyone.
Only her closest friends know – the two closest friends.
She does not burden others with her ailment.
She is pleasant throughout the day, ignoring her pain.
She does not take pain pills because they knock her out.
She has a full-time job that she loves,...

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Memories still linger here,
Yet, you no longer do.
Profound words I used to hear.
Remembering the feeling I had for you,
Ignites heartache cause you aren’t near.
Nights filled with a true emotion,
Crazy talks of kids and marriage,
Everything was in harmonic motion,
Something we would never disparage.
Something to which I still pay devotion....

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We gleaned glow
With blood pulled from earth
Oil sifting.
From earth depths 
Battling the awful onslaught
We're drenched turn mirthless...

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"Point of no Return"
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                                      Death is a "Point of no Return"

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F-ight the ailment every day, 
E-liminate the contagion; 
D-efeat the terrible threat, 
E-radicate the infection.
R-epel and fight the ailment, 
I-t takes wellness to win; 
C-ontain the silent spread
O-f outbreak while in quarantine.

L-et not lifted lockdown
O-f town make man complacent; 
R-ules of pandemic protocol
C-ontain and fight the
A-ilment.

Topic: Birthday of poet Federico Garcia Lorca (June 05)...

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On the edge with a few pegs down the gut
Hideous images to see in mirrors
Must you shock others to this reality?
There is no scrimmage between our talents. 

I was looking for my whiskers to twitch
Powder the facial turf to gloss the lips
Darkness swamped my mind with timidity
For I murmured my thoughts to hear you roar.

Lord...

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N-eatness
O-bliterates
R-abid
M-orbidity
A-nd

A-trocious
R-isk's
M-ystery
A-bating
D-readed
A-ilment

Topic: Birthday of Norma Armada (June 16) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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