Best Sick Poems
Below are the all-time best Sick poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sick poems written by PoetrySoup members
HEALING POWER OF THE DRUM
your labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done
I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...
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Categories:
sick, inspirational, native american, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Sleepless NightSleepless Night
Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
Like...
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Categories:
sick, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
PneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisONE WORD~
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
Running through my mind,
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
Running through my veins,
...
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Categories:
sick, abuse, analogy, art, corruption,
Form:
Epic
Bleeding LoveIntroducing: Jan Allison & Poet Destroyer
Pierced by shards of shattered glass
Deeper and deeper you stab me
With lies and venomous words
Dissecting my heart...
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Categories:
sick, abuse, anger, betrayal, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
The D WordSitting and gazing at the world through the window.
Silence is broken with whistles of wind,
rustling through lifeless leaves.
As specks of rain trickle down panes...
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Categories:
angst, relationship, sick,
Form:
Free verse
FINALLYFinally
Doctor, it's been 7 months
The MEDs aren't kicking in
My dreams are getting stronger,
The blood remains to run code red
It's getting harder and...
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Categories:
sick, dark, deep, evil, horror,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Covid-19 Haunting FearSilence is deafening
Like a dungeon dark hallway.
Door after close door of bounding
Moans and groans, and painful
Yelling gasping for air.
I sit in this cold
Dark cell shivering...
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Categories:
emotions, heartbreak, sick,
Form:
Free verse
The Power of OneThe Power of One
Slowly shadows devour the day’s light,
The silhouette of fear draws breath
From the soul left gasping,
A firestorm of fury gathering,
Like mists of...
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Categories:
courage, hope, power, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Shadow to Shadow••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
In youth the Eden where you played
was left bereft, destroyed, decayed,
by trusts malignant masquerade
Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
No grass...
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Categories:
sick, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form:
Monorhyme
Near Death ExperienceLying silently on my bed, eyes open wide.
Watching as darkness moves in like a heavy fog.
My breathing seems to echo against the cold walls
And my...
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Categories:
angst, death, peace, sick,
Form:
Free verse
The Great Swan"Who's woods are these anyway'.
Who's woods that I dwell?
The house of Usher I know so well.
I seek to skate on the frozen lake.
These woods...
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Categories:
death, sick,
Form:
Free verse
DARE TO DREAMDare to dream
See beyond the limitation
Of useless legs, fasten them with care.
Join your heroes in Olympic wear.
Nothing beats imagination.
Dare to dream
Dare to dream
See yourself in...
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Categories:
encouraging, hope, sick, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Lost To Dementia
Night of the dark soul,
demons infiltrate
the gap between self
and oblivion.
Your mind's a fragile
dysfunctional place
under constant siege,
and cannot be saved.
As reality
morphs into a dream,
sanity slowly
starts to...
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Categories:
sick, august, crazy, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Blank verse
Little ThingsIn novels, love is the obstacle overturned by the ardent swain
In song, love is a grandiose solo in melodic chains
In poetry, love is fervent rhyme...
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Categories:
caregiving, husband, pain, sick,
Form:
I do not know?
Illness Isa lonely place.
It's nothing to do with that person
who asked how are you? this morning.
It's to do with staring through
fear-frosted windows
as snow sugar-sifts the street,
watching...
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Categories:
life, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Turned OffIn the deepest of sad emotions
My mind as been turned off
Exiting off the highway of life
The turn off of all time
As I rot in ...
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Categories:
sick, crazy, cry, imagery, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Corona Virus COV-19CORONA VIRUS (COV-19)
The Black Death, or bubonic plague, which happened nearly 700 years ago, (in the three year period of 1347 to 1351 in which...
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Categories:
sick, anxiety, death, faith, fear,
Form:
Narrative
Child Scream Out
despair hangs heavy
in the air these days
but the only path
is through they say
an intruder in the midst
blowing his cold still drip
into the...
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Categories:
sick, cancer, emotions, family, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Dark LossHe tried to fly
flapped his wings
High above him
a dark duvet
drizzled sadness
Only yesterday,
or was it last week
his wings and feet
carried him
little raven
didn't remember
Carry me
carry me
he squeaked
to...
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Categories:
dark, metaphor, sick,
Form:
Free verse
The folly of the fightThe folly of the fight
These four walls; such contemptible and wretched creatures-
mock me, taunt me, deride me as weak and worthless.
I am shackled to the...
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Categories:
sick, body, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Strange ImagesAntlers as walking trees
Grass as stabbing knives
Hands as waving chestnut leaves
Books as building blocks
Thoughts as ideas in the wind
Words as cutting pain
Letters as dust...
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Categories:
self, sick,
Form:
Free verse
SequestrationI never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation...
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Categories:
sick, death, loneliness, longing, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Their Chosen DiseaseI watch a sunset
that I'd love to share
and nobody sees it but me
I'm scratching my head
in utter amazement...
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Categories:
lost, sick, slavery, society,
Form:
Rhyme
How do I tell you that I love youHow do I tell you "I love you",
when all that's left to listen is a cloud?
And the tempest has blown away,
all that our hands built.
How...
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Categories:
sick, hope, i love you,
Form:
Free verse
I REMEMBER IT WAS INTENSE
it happened all so fast
it was a swoosh it was a blur
it was all so very intense
and I remember every minute
every gruesome detail
every awesome moment
every...
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Categories:
sick, death, goodbye, grief, lost
Form:
Free verse