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Best Shortness Of Breath Poems

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Press Release
A listing of the fires 
and all the survivors 
will be provided

Names of the dead 
are written on broken cobblestones 
at the bottom of the...

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© Barry Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortness of breath, crazy, humor, political, satire,
Form: Verse



Premium Member A Genuine Smile
A genuine smile joyfully gives to a day
Much more value than one really knows
It's more than the gold light of the sun
More soothing than the...

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Categories: shortness of breath, happiness, smile,
Form: Prose Poetry
Descendent of Eve
"Descendent of Eve"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

As she walked through the door, I recall a shortness of breath
My heartbeat fluttered, my palms moistened, my mind...

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Categories: shortness of breath, beauty, inspiration, passion, philosophy,
Form: Ballad
Passionate Love
Passionate Love
There's a heat burning intense inside;
inside my soul,
and inside my groin.
Not the heat of temperature but of lust and desire
causing a shortness of breath...

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Categories: shortness of breath, boyfriend, desire, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Covid-19 Is Real, Be Smart
In order to fight the Coronavirus causing Covid-19 here are some things we must know about,
First of all is that the virus enters your body...

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Categories: shortness of breath, death,
Form: Rhyme



What Did You See
In shortness of breath 
he heaves thundering hooves
over gravel road and through thorny brush
In terrors madness he dashed
as elves lie in still and
fae giggled from...

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Categories: shortness of breath, confusion, fantasy, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Old Age
OLD AGE


Do you ever wonder where the years have all gone?
The roller coaster ends and you hope to hop back on
We are older now and...

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© Jj Hammer  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortness of breath, age, children, god, old,
Form: Rhyme
Appeal To Reason
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” 

The sun Plagued by darkness.
I walk alone a shadowless figure with no face...

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Categories: shortness of breath, faith, hope, heart, dream,
Form: Free verse
Spirit Set Free...
A sudden shortness of breath,
The clenching of the chest. 
You hear the news fail like you're deaf,
The first thing you want to do is confess....

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Categories: shortness of breath, death
Form: Free verse
The Bath
An ordinary Australian from an ordinary country place
Who rallied to the flag's call with god's good grace
He was one of the 33rd Battalion "New England's...

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Categories: shortness of breath, world war i, ,
Form: Ballad
Black and White Days
At three years old; 
we freely hid from tree to tree, 
and sneaked through under table to 
table,
with snow smiles, filled with smells of 
present,...

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Categories: shortness of breath, childhoodschool, rainbow, school,
Form: Classicism
It's Not Easy When the Road Is Your Driver
It's Not Easy When The Road Is Your Driver 

To want you to hold you to need you
 We look for love in all the...

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Categories: shortness of breath, blessing,
Form: Free verse
My Breaking Point
Hot headed asses
Filled with commie bastards
Social disorder in the brain insane with pain
As if socialized wandering wizards chicken gizzards
My breaking point to no return hero...

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Categories: shortness of breath, art, death, fear, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Dying Is Horrifying
Dying Is Horrifying

Has been sad to me;
Dying is horrifying;
Will never forget.

My wife Jill is in intensive care right now
under sedation. Sunday morning she had
shortness of...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortness of breath, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Of Life and Death
A little coughing fit I told myself
And wiped that worry off the shelf
Then shortness of breath begin
In the hospital is where I am
Arms all full...

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Categories: shortness of breath, death,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs