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Cataracts Poems - Poems about Cataracts

Premium MemberOut of the Mouth of Babes

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A five-year old precocious daughter 
asked her daddy where rabbits lived.  
To impress her, he straightway said: 
“In the ground in borrows, love.”

The little girl looked puzzled.
“Are y...
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Categories: cataracts, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberWhat are the reasons behind mine and your's mental confusion's lately commentary

...1st Corn 15:4 according to the Scriptures.  All of my battles and yours as well really
do originate in our minds 'cause our minds are the windows to the world.'  As we
think, therefore, we become. ...
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Categories: cataracts, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose



Premium MemberA Belated Fourth of July

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                        A Belated Fourth of July
                                 7/7/2025

I wanted to send God‘s blessings to you,
To all past readers, new or true!

Even though I haven’...
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Categories: cataracts, friendship, holiday,
Form: Free verse

Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare

...Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare...

Earlier this merry month of May
a goniff who possibly did gossip
about his/her surreptitious exploits
when he/she brazen...
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Categories: cataracts, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHair Composition

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Her hair dances like the cascading stream, 
murmuring in the silence of dormant dreams.
It’s more than an element of graceful façade,
the curls carry a crown of style adornment.

The onyx ha...
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Categories: cataracts, analogy, beauty, hair,
Form: Other



Premium MemberThe Seance

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“The Seance” 

It was macabre you see,
we were all summoned,
and therefore found ourselves
in the front parlour of Ballylee;

In our dreams
we thought we were poets
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Categories: cataracts, muse,
Form: Narrative

I Think We've Won

...Headlight humanity; 
The cherry-red brake lights,
Becoming florid totality with the things your eyes do to them.
                                       You destructive little thing.
You keep your...
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Categories: cataracts, corruption, environment, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEsoteric Euphoria

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In vivacious luminous 
landscape of luring longing, 
desire sculpts dream,
spreads spectrum of ardor 
in sapphire sky,
fervor floats on cloud,
shaping sensual crave,
          charismatic....
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Categories: cataracts, analogy, desire, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDignity Of An Elder Dog

...Master, my eyes now have cataracts,
my bones ache and stiffen when I rise,
I cannot chase squirrels like I used to,
nor fetch a tennis ball the way I did
as a pup,
but I love living with my fami...
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Categories: cataracts, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Personification

Insanity

...Morning glory,
The mountains stand in brown nudity,
There's no shame in being mighty echoes the wind,
The air is taut with the brooding silence of a storm,
It will rain tears sooner or later,
An...
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Categories: cataracts, addiction, anxiety, change, city,
Form: Free verse

In the Twilight of Her Tears

...In the Twilight of Her Tears
by Michael R. Burch, age 19

In the twilight of her tears
I saw the shadows of the years
that had taken with them all our joys and cares ...

There in an ebbing ti...
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Categories: cataracts, care, city, death, dream,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBlood of the Sand

...Just above a pearl laced falls 
I plunged a bent hand 
into the silvery thrash.
searching for something
that had slipped from my hands.
It was only a plain Riverstone
but a gem none the less
t...
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Categories: cataracts, age, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

The Chair

...In his old leather chair
he sits and blinks his eyes
the off white sits on his hair
like dust upon the mantle.

A murky sea of bluish grey
where smoking gave him cataracts
but they still burn ...
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Categories: cataracts, bereavement, death, emotions, grief,
Form: Free verse

Demon Possession

...Demon possession is on the rise
Because so many people are believing the enemies lies
He loves to dress in disguise
Seducing his victims until their demise
He creeps into families when there is n...
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Categories: cataracts, bible, destiny, gospel,
Form: Rhyme

Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses

...Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses

Ever since second grade
an ever stronger prescription
for nearsightedness donned my countenance,
cuz myopia (inherited courtesy
both parents) rendered m...
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Categories: cataracts, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse

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