Best Symptoms Poems

People milling around I  do not notice them, 
my face is turned to hide my loneliness,
Am walking in my own despair
No one else intrudes...

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Koorosh the Great, Friend

All of my heart
One tear
Or one Monsoon
No amount, no grandeur
Can express the sorrow
Oh yes, I am sad, I am saddened
I am in...

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I am a white, middle class, American male; raised in a white, middle class American home.  I would not say that my upbringing included...

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Falling asleep to illogical thoughts.
Seeing red or nothing but spots.
Heart racing toward the finish line.
Can't seem to catch that breath of mine.
A whooshing roar inside...

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When you’re sick and you are reeling
Since with symptoms you are dealing
There is nothing more appealing
Than a “How you feeling?” note.

For while sickness has been...

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We live in a world where sickness abounds,
Sometimes stumping the best of providers. 
Symptoms and tests almost always expound, 
While the emotional costs grow wider....

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ROULETTE

My twisted mind
Had everyone blind
No symptoms
Not a single sign!
 
I want to forget everything,
Living a life of no regrets,
Facing the sun
Ignoring my debts
Wiping of the...

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S - P - R - I - N - G

Ah! Harsh cold winter must be tired,
 his grip weakening, he breathes  his last.

The...

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Maybe the most deadly disease is just around our corner
Carried to our doorstep by an unsuspected foreigner
Ebola is lethal with a fatality rate that is...

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Anytime I feel hungry instead of eating a full meal I eat Honey.
The best part is that Honey doesn't mind, she's a sweetheart.


Maurice Yvonne
20~11~2014

The Refrain

I...

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"Each experience is locked within my heart and only I hold the key..."



There was a time when Jess was young, that we thought we were...

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THE NIGHTINGALE LOST HER LAMP

Anita’s eyes were brown. 
She was the kindest of angels.
Her speech firm with authority 
but reassuring with a glass- like
sensitivity; she...

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Sweeter than honey
More potent than ecstasy
Feels like I'm going crazy
To know what they do to me.

More addictive than heroin 
More powerful than cocaine
I don't know...

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From glaucoma to chemotherapy
Medical marijuana has its place
But you won’t find any prescribed
In the conservative Sunshine State

Chris couldn’t eat while under treatment
Watched him lose one-hundred...

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FEVER  PITCH

Demons of faith,
God speed,
Ageless tears,
 
A dweller lost in the perfect Odyssey.
Bricks of memories, barricade my way out.
Growing gray within the ageless centuries.
Steady...

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You’re my star – I set fire to our firey rose 
Bouquet of stars – I hand to you – 
We’re opposites, like poetry and...

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This is a parody on Gee Officer Krupke from West Side Story .

   Dear  Doctor  Grumpee
   Nobody  knows
...

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When Betty hit the menopause
her symptoms all came on at once,
with her brain fog; she feels a dunce!

At night in bed, the hot sweat pours
and...

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Listen to the sonorous tones 
of silence secluded in sighs,
Blind to every sight of reality,
with kaleidoscope vision and spider 
eyes.
Revisions perfected the proper 
cocktail
for soaring...

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I had this terrific Idea for a poem 	                ...

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I.
I
My,my
ego's cry-
neglected,long lost
family..duties..left to die,
fixated on symptoms society still wonders why !
...

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Ignorance is...

                       ...

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I’ve been here before
Knowing what to expect
Or so I had thought
This time, I’m perplexed

Similar exterior
I gave little thought
But the inside is backwards
I, surly, am lost

This...

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Only a hero volunteers for war,
one willing to kill and die for others.
And do things they would normally abhor,
rallying into a band of brothers
to defend...

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Coffee drinkers everywhere
Will know just what I mean
When I describe my symptoms
If I don’t get my caffeine.

On those rare times I skip my brew
For reasons...

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