Best Sickle Cell Poems
Below are the all-time best Sickle Cell poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sickle cell poems written by PoetrySoup members
Sickle Cell BulimiaI was in a hurry
To weight only forty
Had no time for a drawn
out diet
So decided I would try it
Bought a sickle
Carved off my flesh
It didn't...
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Categories:
sickle cell, adventure, fantasy, funny, health,
Form:
Burlesque
HomonymDon’t you agree with my ability
to loosen up on our times in no night ?
A river thing was flowing
through foliaged silence.
In deranged hour of the
neck...
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Categories:
sickle cell, art, night, night,
Form:
ABC
Red BloodBlood is red for vibrant,
Beating and in time,
Rhythmical with vitality,
Resounding in spark and shine.
Zestfulness depends on your blood,
Having it and living...
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Categories:
sickle cell, body, color, god, health,
Form:
Rhyme
Water Is LifeWATER IS LIFE
People ignore me because of my simple nature
If you ask me, I would not hesitate to say;
When the creator takes, I take, however,...
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Categories:
sickle cell, life, men, kiss, men,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Abiku SpeaksAbiku speaks..... sickle cell patient
Let me go, for I’m in pains
COS I’m guilty not,
In this case.
COS all these, are your...
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Categories:
sickle cell, health,
Form:
Burlesque
Who's Next?The thunderous thunder
Came thundering in a turmoiled town
Timing my timeless time,
June, you played a fowl gain
You can’t spare us even for once
That we may eat...
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Categories:
sickle cell, confusionmay,
Form:
Lay
Runaway ChildWhen she hurts me
I hide it inside
Secretly feeling like I've died
17 years I been there
How could Tony ever compare
Hospital after hospital
Sickle cell crisis
Real life emergencies
Never...
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Categories:
sickle cell, absence, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
I do not know?
The Lost Cross of ChaossThe Lost Cross of Chaoss
(acrostic)
Tomorrow turns too yesterday
How fast it can appear
Everything you borrowed
Left without a tear
Office of a coffin
Society’s sickle cell
Taxes for the order
Chaos...
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Categories:
sickle cell, religionme,
Form:
Rhyme
The Silence of Yesterdayfor abunic sheriff – a friend who battled sickle cell.
yesterday the bones in my friend’s body wrote me a note of grief saying that they...
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Categories:
sickle cell, death, deep, for him,
Form:
Elegy
Superhero IWe had dreams of being who we wanted to be
I still remember we playing around the backyard and riding bikes
Imitating our various superheroes and...
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Categories:
sickle cell, africa, allusion, death, fear,
Form:
ABC
Superhero IiYou returned sooner than we expected and you were never sluggish
Same Mike we knew but these episodes kept happening
I remember one day you told us...
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Categories:
sickle cell, africa, allusion, death, family,
Form:
ABC
Melancholy and JoyI.
Melancholy and joy, like oil and water,
do not combine (like water in a bath
of acid). The twain never do
meet in a single psyche,...
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Categories:
sickle cell, depression, emotions, heaven, joy,
Form:
Free verse
InvocationMay these words upon my breast
seek to help and heal and deliver
for these times we may shiver
at tricks the evil lay at our feet
in our...
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Categories:
sickle cell, bereavement, child, christian, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme