Best Cystic Poems
Below are the all-time best Cystic poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cystic poems written by PoetrySoup members
My Little Soldier BoyGary, you are my little soldier boy,
who died on Veteran's Day. ('83)
My sunny, golden-haired soldier boy,
that I still miss in every way.
You had just turned...
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Categories:
cystic, child, death, remember, boy,
Form:
Rhyme
Life Is Shortit seems in just the twinkling of an eye
life passes by
and one's left at the brink
with time to think
before the fall
into the great abyss
where...
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Categories:
cystic, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Disability, Illness and FundamentalismDisability, Illness and Fundamentalism
My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis,
When I was twelve and he fourteen,
It took away his ambitions,
To study at Oxford...
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Categories:
cystic, atheist, cancer, health, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Only the Dreamer DiesONLY THE DREAMER DIES…
The arid winds steal
Our tears.
The sterile dust tease
Cystic hopes
Of dreams deferred.
At shrines...
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Categories:
cystic, black african american, dream,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Categories:
cystic, faith, loss, passion, peace,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Little Haley Died TodayHaley gave up the ghost today,
all we could do was cry and pray.
She'd suffered so long, her whole life,
disease had wracked her body with strife.
Cystic...
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Categories:
cystic, death, health, life, sad,
Form:
Elegy
Life Is What Happens[ edit poem ]
Life Is What Happens
What a long, strange life it’s been.
Childhood and adolescence were close to normal,
I never felt quite right,
Never fit my...
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Categories:
cystic, bereavement, emotions, life, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
One Last TearI was just four when I discovered that some grown-ups cry.
That’s because I saw my mommy dragging my daddy down the stairs,
Her eyes so full...
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Categories:
cystic, cancer, cry, family, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Hypochondrial IllusionHypochondrial Delusion
A mind corrupted canker
Of cystic self failure
Even gastric anorexia
And fluttery throb to alight the fear
An adrenaline generated tachycardia
That matches respiration
And causes hyperventilation
With invasive pacy...
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Categories:
cystic, psychological,
Form:
Blank verse
My Fb Post Minutes AgoI remember years before her death, my mama would pray, "Lord, take my life." I would try to make her forget her misery by continuing...
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Categories:
cystic, death, mother,
Form:
Prose
Faith Brings the HarvestFAITH BRINGS THE HARVEST
Although they go forth weeping
carrying the seed to be sown,
They shall come back rejoicing
Psalm 124
The furrows of our beginnings lie barren: cystic...
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Categories:
cystic, faith, hope, religious,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Claire Wineland(whose video powerfully, profoundly, and
positively affected this southeastern residing
Pennsylvania papa)!
Afflicted with Cystic Fibrosis since her birth
contagious exuberance, gung-ho,
infectious...
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Categories:
cystic, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form:
Elegy
This Mick On the Next Stoolin a pub in Ireland
So this Mick on the next stool,
who's as serious as Yeats
but looks like Wilde,
stares at me,
with eyes crossed,
sipping Guinness through...
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Categories:
cystic, drink,
Form:
Blank verse
This Mick On the Next StoolThis Mick on the Next Stool
in a pub in Ireland
So this Mick on the next stool,
who's as serious as Yeats
but looks like Wilde,
stares at me,...
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Categories:
cystic, imagination
Form:
Free verse
Please don't leave me I love youHe reignited my creative passion when he reentered my life
His can sense to the core how I am feeling and asked me right away to...
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Categories:
cystic, loss, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse