Best Shingles Poems

My pain level is an eight on a scale of one to ten.
Poor you, someone says. Someone who has no idea
That I have been running on pain levels of ten for three weeks.
An eight is terrific; great, something to strive for tomorrow.

Shingles has taken me...

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Shingles
Shingles, if you have not had it do not wish it
On your worst enemy. Two nights of agony I rang 
My doctor, he lives nearby, arranged to see him
(Cheaper that way).... It is good to live in a place 
where everybody knows your name and...

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viral symptoms sprout
white pus seeps from spiny tips
envy masks gangrene...

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Second shingles shot successful... 
slight prick, but otherwise... positive pitch
re: without a hitch
the first innoculation approximately 
five months prior also nary glitch.

Preemptive needling measure
regarding getting fully
immunized at CVS
(Zieglerville, Pennsylvania)13:08
military time May First
2020 bruised left arm update
status report regarding
preventive measure well worth

suspenseful interlude preliminary
delay imposed wait
while...

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There's a tv commercial with a metaphor,
that some of us may have heard before,
"shingles doesn't care".
If one rolls the virus dice rsv and covid
aren't very nice but "shingles doesn't care."
Competitive bugs that are honing in on you,
like pneumococcal pneumonia too, but
"shingles doesn't care."
In between any...

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Shingles is something I live with daily
Chosen for me by whom?
I have no idea.
I doubt it is my choice, as it is painful.
My skin is tender; shingles is red, raw, sore, and rough.

This disease is something I try to forget about every day.
I can push...

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Savage

Hurtful

Igneous

Nefarious

Grevous

Languishing

Enveloping

Sores...

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Serpigo, roseola, German measles, flu.
Shingles, chicken pox, pandemic Corona boo hoo.
Chilling fever, chest pains, aches all the way through.
Muscle fatigue, slap cheek, and mumps poking you.
I feel pretty great today.  How about you?...

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THAN WHY MUST WE SING
AND BELEIVE AS YOU WISH ME TOO
THAT YOU SPEAK OF SALVATION
BUT SUCH IS SPOKEN ONLY THROUGH YOU
THAT YOUR VANITY IS SEEN
AND YOUR WORDS ARE SAID
IT HELPS ME NEITHER
IT'S ONLY STORIES READ
THAT YOU IN YOUR NEWNESS
IS BETTER AND LESS BELEIVED
BECAUSE THOSE I...

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If plastic surgery was free
And painless
And available
And fast
What would I have done?

Can they do eyes? Mine have floaters.
Can they create teeth? Many of mine are missing.
Can they do left hips?
Mine has shingles.

Can they operate on you when you have oozing open sores?
Can I make an...

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Dandelions are in short supply the news station warned us.
If you have not had your immunizations it might be too late.
There is a limited supply since people started to eliminate
dandelions from their yards.

A wise group of millennials figured out that dandelion oil 
is a fast...

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I am broken glass 
waiting to pierce your feet
To bloody you up and see your pain
For I am in so much
I want to spread it around

I am on fire, my teeth are sad.
My gums hurt, and I want to share this 
with thousands of others

Wailing...

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The scratching wakes me up
Ridiculously unsatisfying
Yet notoriously put there by shingles
Or excruciatingly painful allergen.
A scream for help

Time is in my way
Sorry I sid not sneak my Excedrin pm into hospital
Morphine is not cutting it.
Each time more insistent 
On a more potent drug...

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Seven medications and I can spell none of them.
I have thrown sleeping pills and pain reliever into the fray.
For the morphine was not cutting it.
I was in dire pain.  Then I took a baking soda bath.

Pure heaven, that bath.  Instant relief.
Joe ran out...

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Poems are coming slowfully.
For I am most woefully
And truly most woefully
In the hospital doe-fully

Itching my skin until bleeding
More potent pills I am pleading
Poems are decidedly misleading
Me out of this stupor I’ll be needing...

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