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Best Incurable Poems

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Premium Member That Starry Night
Like no one before, nor since
 you painted that starry night in oils
  superimposing your life story.

I feel I know this idyllic village
 blanketed...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incurable, art, depression, night, passion,
Form: Ekphrasis



It's An Illusion
(one-act play)

The patient

They call it a sickness, a psychosis, an insanity, but I know: this is the leverage 
by means of which I can set...

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Categories: incurable, world,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Dying Young
I’m afraid of dying young
Of leaving things yet undone
I’m afraid I’ll leave this place
Yet not leave a single trace
I’m afraid I haven’t said
All that lives...

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Categories: incurable, death,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member When Afflictions Feel Like Inflictions
I once was fast and so athletic. Bad afflictions? I had none.
Measles, mumps (the normal things). Youth was so much fun.

Then came my childbearing early...

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Categories: incurable, body,
Form: Couplet
Colour Blind
- Colour Blind -         
Aha! The lad has achromatopsua. 
It's incurable and hereditary.    ...

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Categories: incurable, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Accepting
You are the smell before rain 
You are the blood in my veins 
I need to get you out of my system,
bleed it out by...

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Categories: incurable, absence, angst, friendship, hurt,
Form: Free verse
In Twenty Four Hours
In twenty four hours life can drastically change.....

One moment blissfully happy walking on cloud nine
Thinking life is beautiful and wonderful, oh so divine
Then something happens...

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Categories: incurable, angst, hope, life, life,
Form: Rhyme
Can I Sleep With You
Incurable insomnia had perturbed my eyes 
Negligence had destroyed your hopes too 
You were drenched by a heavy shower of sadness. 
Till My bare lustrous...

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© Red Fiery  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incurable, love
Form: Narrative
Humanity
God makes perfect everything on earth 
for humans and plants to coexist with each other
plants give humans the power to heal and the nutrients to survive 
humans provide the CO2...

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Categories: incurable, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue Heart
I once had a love that was a cruel lie
Moments of passion we shared together
No other thought could occupy my mind
The smell of her intoxicated...

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Categories: incurable, lost love,
Form: Pantoum
Spring Cleaning of the Cluttered Soul
Scrap the smoldering, winsome words
the lovely odd truce made of letters
found carved with the edge of an old pocket knife
on a strap made of metal...

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Categories: incurable, introspection, lost love, uplifting,
Form: Quatrain
Suddenly
Fool that I am an  
    Incurable Romantic 
        Rolling in the Deep...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incurable, romantic,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member A Tale of Meraki

A tale of meraki

Overcome by the burden she sat teary eyed
Holding closely her two little boys by her side
Immersed in sorrow they had endlessly cried
After...

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Categories: incurable, care, courage, mother son,
Form: Rhyme
Who Loves You, Baby
who loves you
if i don't
tell me, who's going to fix this
if we won't
don't nobody miss you
like me
and i know don't nobody kiss you 
like me
not...

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Categories: incurable, love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am --
My own gypsy roaming in countless hemispheres
A painter who splashes emotions of life’s tones
Maybe a lightkeeper flaming a child’s wonder
Also, a bookworm awed by enigmatic...

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Categories: incurable, me,
Form: List

Book: Shattered Sighs