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Debilitation Poems - Poems about Debilitation

IN THE EVERGREEN OF HOPE

...IN THE EVERGREEN OF HOPE

In the forest of despair,
The evergreen of hope,
Firmly rooted,
Stands in the mist
Of the saws
Of injustice:
Her tired body
Having withstood
The fires of debilitat...

Categories: debilitation, destiny, extended metaphor, hope,
Form: Prose

YESTERDAY REVIEWED AND RENEWED AGAIN

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YESTERDAY VIEWED AND RENEWED AGAIN

It is being pontificated
that we should be on the right side
Of history;
But if we were to do so,
We would be on the wrong side
Of ourstory:-
While ...

Categories: debilitation, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose

I Cannot Put My Finger On It

...The frustration rises, like bile
To fill my chest 
I feel a knot in my stomach 
A pit of vipers writhing. 
The eyes are watching my every move
As I feel I can’t do right
For doing wrong. 
I ca...

Categories: debilitation, angst, anxiety, fear, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

How To Feel When Your House Burns Down

...How to Feel When Your House Burns Down
The home you are raised in is a mother tongue. 
I was four when it was built, an age when innocence
turns river water and all that lives within to blood.
Fi...

Categories: debilitation, fear, fire, longing, loss,
Form: Sestina

Approximately Three Plus Days Elapsed

...Approximately three plus days elapsed...
without yours truly experiencing urge to defecate

Neither bloating nor constipation
arose, but one nondescript anguished
logophile anticipated intestina...

Categories: debilitation, adventure, america, anniversary, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Transformation V Change

...Today I heard,
despite considerable dissonance,
a distinction between external change
and internal transformation.

This feels like a difference with some merit,
but reminds me of further nuanc...

Categories: debilitation, anxiety, appreciation, change, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Little Changes

...That existence is not a burden
Never occurred to a mind straining in darkness
But is now what I can grapple with because 
You taught me a new language of love 
And I expect to read new stories

...

Categories: debilitation, depression, growth, happiness, hope,
Form: Free verse

Stood By Me

...To my dear son Daniel:
STOOD BY ME

My little boy stood in front of me 
shouting, “You’ll have to go through 
me first when he saw I was in danger.

My boy stood by me when the 
Law firm jobs...

Categories: debilitation, anti bullying, boy, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Debilitation

...Tiredness has me enveloped,
Wrapped in the arms of its misery.
Though darkness long since fled coming of day
My eyes cannot open to see.
Trapped- this body,imprisoned by its hold,
The cloying em...

Categories: debilitation, health,
Form: Verse

Badnews Suspension

...It helps me to optimize possible health-improving wealth outcomes
by temporarily suspending disbelief
we have each chosen to be spiritually reborn into
each and every WinWin opportunity
to optimi...

Categories: debilitation, games, health, history, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Heirs of the Struggle

...Paradoxically, slavery showed equanimity—
Its suffering displayed no discrimination;
We all shared equally, its debilitation,
And were equally denied any sympathy
Over the Middle Passage odyssey;...

Categories: debilitation, africa, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry

Incantation

...Birth—Coronation
Belief—Creation
Pain— Debilitation
Sin—Damnation 
Joy—Association
Despair—Isolation
Praise—Adulation
Time—Anticipation
Truth—Revelation
Faith—Salvation
Death—Divination
Li...

Categories: debilitation, life,
Form: Rhyme

Depression

...Darkness
Descending Doom
Despondency's Domain
Deleterious Degrading
Deepening Dramatic Desecration
Demonic Debilitation
Destructive Delusion
Desperation
Darkness...

Categories: debilitation, depression
Form: Rictameter