Best Lupus Poems

I'd been watching him for years, (black as coal),

          Almost two decades now, an extraordinary age for a wolf ...

               Every full...

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Living with Lupus

Today is not a good day for me.
My lupus is making me feel bad, I hurt all over.
My face feels like it is on fire from the inside out.
My arms and shoulders hurt to touch, please don’t hug me.
If for some reason if...

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Canis Lupus, gray wolf of forest and brushlands,
Where denning sites throughout are plentiful and safe,
With gifts of strength, endurance and great stamina,
You travel on for hours before fatigue sets in.

As Alpha male, joined with your Alpha female mate,
You lead the pack which heeds and follows...

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Canis Lupus the Wolf

Spring is here  
and almost  to the end of April
when I will give birth to my pups
the inner layer of my wool, fur has shed    
it will help keep me cool during the summer

My den is well...

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Canis Lupus the Dufus

He did battle with three little hams
was embroiled in the Riding Hood scams
now slower of gait
he simply must wait
for a visit from Mary’s sweet lambs



John G. Lawless
3/30/2015

Not submitted to the contest
for obvious reasons....

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Vapour’s breath disappears into silent moonlight
	Past pearl white teeth.
Chilled -
Air frozen with fear and awe, hush -
Branches slow their clapping and bend to listen
	As paws crunch into an icy clearing.
Still -
Icicles fall in a symphony of crystal wonder
Her eyes a dusty grey, as glass
Peer through...

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Lord my heart my heart 
I’m crying out in so much pain
My joints swelling up
My face developed butterflies a rash
I’m weak can’t move can’t get out the bed
Lord I know you don’t put no more 
No more on me than I can bare
But my skin...

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(I wrote this about a piece of raw gemstone I have next to my bed to help me have better and more insightful 
dreams, whilst I was looking at it before I went to sleep:)


Compacted cluster of diamonds
Stars signalling from the heavens
Embodied by solid sapphire...

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You will not often find me 
In amongst the fold
Being chased from the pen
Wherein your treasure lies 
I will not clothe myself in sheep
I cannot be but that which I am

lone 
I am wolf

If we are inclined to meat
I will grant what is yours
But choose...

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I live each day in agony,
No I don't understand
Why God let's me suffer,
With pain in my legs, hips and hands
I have a disease called Lupus,
Somedays I can not move
Yet every day is what we make it,
We simply have to choose
To give in to pain or...

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The lupus was a she 
howling at an orange winter moon
baying for a he
with pups yelping unison in tune.

“Where could Daddy be?”
They question Mother as she softly moans.
"Just wait there and see.
He'll bring luscious catch of meat and bones."

A lone wolf was a she
to weak...

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Looking for a cure for lupus an incurable disease
Understanding that it may kill me
Probably not very fast
Unaware if I will last
Still standing strong....

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In this crazy world I walk this dark forest alone
Refusing to be part of a pack 
I don’t want to be known
I think independently
So I hunt alone
I carefully keep track of my evolution
Every day I have grown
But now I am in unchartered territory
I have fallen...

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A lone wolf yowls lachrymose,
At a lowly weeping full moon,
A hyperborean chill blows,
To quake the trees snow-clad festoon.

Reverent icy waters stand still,
Solid as old placid cold stone,
And crystallize its surface frill,
Webbing fractures as cracking bone.

The moonlight shimmers lupine pelage,
Luminous white, silver, and grey,
Scintillating eyes peer...

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The Lupus 

Wolf, feared animal in folktales, is back in north Europe 
it was eradicated, or so we thought, but they have been 
observed in woodlands wiser than before, they don’t 
like sheep and rabbits avoid humans and dislike dogs. 
prefer deer though, and wild...

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