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Best Apnea Poems

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Apnea
Battling at the thought’s end. Ruined cities.
The last survivors were helped to escape
together with their unborn children.
Eyes tossing nervously. Fears floating on schizophrenic reality.
A ghost...

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Categories: apnea, confidence, conflict, dark, death,
Form: Free verse



Maybe It Was Sleep Apnea
Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and "a wonderful man when he was awake" but for the past...

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Categories: apnea, death,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Death My Pal
Death,
An old friend, as old as life,
We met soon after my birth 
He liked to play games with me 
“Be ready,” he said. “I am...

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Categories: apnea, death, fear, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Midnight Typhoon
Spring tide
pounding against
a rocky relationship

between the
new moon and
earth’s pie in the sky.

On an island
of one’s own making
in the mind —

like a whirlpool
when imagination
slips away

on a...

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Categories: apnea, anxiety, depression, dream, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If You Have a Sleep Disorder
If you have a sleep disorder, I strongly advise that you have it checked

Apparently, if it is serious enough, it can even lead to death

Was...

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Categories: apnea, health, drug,
Form: Narrative



Cannabis Connoisseur
Medical Marijuana

Magical Herb, given to this world
can cure so many things, you’d 
never believe it would

from helping a cancer patient
from starving
the positive results from it
are...

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Categories: apnea, people, people, cancer, drug,
Form: I do not know?
Repentance
I lie awake
while he snores to the saints
                 ...

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Categories: apnea, anxiety, depression, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Falling Asleep At the Wheel
Have had this beard since 1962

Without it would sure be unsightly

Have a severe case of sleep apnea

A face mask must fit tightly

To solve it, may...

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Categories: apnea, angst,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member An Extra Skip In My Step
It really looks like success is at hand

Sleep apnea is finally at bay

Guess I'm good for another few years

Hallelujah! Oh happy day

I'm waking up singing...

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Categories: apnea, joy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Job - Part 4
By 9:00PM I was ready to go.  Dark pants, shirt, shoes, and watch cap.  The classic night on the town combo setup for...

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Categories: apnea, death, life, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Morning Ritual
Fade-in to darkness
   Blink slow, quicker ... eyes open
      Still dark, but I can't go back to sleep...

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Categories: apnea, anxiety, dream, health, morning,
Form: Free verse
A Quiet Waltz
CHALLENGED OR CHALLENGED?: AN UNRESOLVED DANCE LINGERS ON
By: Agnes Dalton - 28 minutes ago

API RELEASE: CHATTANOOGA, TN -

A challenged waiter and a forgotten child 
are...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: apnea, loss
Form: Narrative
Immediate Cause
PART 1.
Morphine intoxication

PART 2.
Coronary artery atherosclerosis, sleep apnea

28a. 
ACCIDENT

28b. 
June 8, 2008

28c. 
17:35

28d.
Ingested prescription medication

28f.
Home...

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Categories: apnea,
Form: Free verse
Deaths Door
Deaths Door


Every night I go to bed,
  I could have one last thought in my head.

I have sleep apnea where I can lose my...

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Categories: apnea, deathme, night, wife, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Man's Machines
Might as well go to market.
Gather money, kindling. The economy
scary, debt deep, winter coming. Reminds
me of my youth, cold poor and scared
but living truth? ....

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Categories: apnea, car, death, encouraging, friend,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs