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Fevers Poems - Poems about Fevers

The Chalk Beneath My Fingernails

...-The Chalk Beneath My Fingernails-

I walk a path where roads dissolve,
Where rivers rise and hopes revolve,
Through jungle mist and dusty lanes,
With every step, I carry names—
Of children bor...
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Categories: fevers, books, children, class, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberthought clouds

...I don’t stream a lot of TV
but once I’m in that mode, I’m down
and I can’t get up.

Best pickup line I heard this week:
“You could be my emergency contact.”

A girl recently called me “weird p...
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Categories: fevers, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Blues Sonnet for Jan

...Event: Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902—Measles epidemic in the concentration camps.
In the voice of: Sannie Botha (a survivor).

Jan’s cough kept me awake all through the night.
The children ar...
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Categories: fevers, africa, conflict, endurance,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberBone In Her Back

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Oh, how we are poisoned!
The Yonega, the Wasichu, 
a new creature, 
different from us in more than just their 
white skin and sunflower hair.
 How did such a people come
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Categories: fevers, america, conflict, culture, history,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChallenge poems 13, 14 and 15 bite size!!

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                                      Challenge poem number 13
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                                         The flu is pounding 

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Categories: fevers, sick,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Subject is Your Mind While Sleeping

...A sullen
sickness
befallen me
from whence
a darkening
ventured
nigh
and stolen
the sparkling
embodiment
features of
stars
in the
gloaming
of the mundane
hovering misery
of shooting
d...
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Categories: fevers, analogy, dream, imagery, imagination,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberTo awaken means to realize one’s own nothingness, that is, to realize one’s

...To awaken means to realize one’s own nothingness, that is, to realize one’s complete and absolute helplessness. As long as a man is not horrified at himself, he knows nothing about himself.
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Categories: fevers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Mother Nature - The Great

...In the realm of existence, where time unfolds,
A tale of wonder, in verses untold.
A symphony of life, in hues of vast,
A saga of futures, present, and past.

From the womb of chaos, creation sp...
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Categories: fevers, absence, anger, earth day,
Form: Narrative

Tomorrow, I Promise

...Waiting; waiting; waiting…
in the dark of night.
Cotton in my pocket,
soon I’ll be alright.
Twisting in my fingers,
I don’t know what to do,
I think I best buy double,
or else I dream of two.
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Categories: fevers, desire, drug, family, forgiveness,
Form: I do not know?

Hospital Life

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Life in hospital wards,
with blue drapes, white washed floors,
grey assets, wheeled tables.
Corn-beef hash, carrot mash,
day-pay TV cables.

Life in hospital wards,
spiked fe...
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Categories: fevers, environment, grave, health, how
Form: Monchielle Stanza

Premium MemberWinter Sonata - POTD

...Winter Sonata 11-29-23
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Winter Sonata

In grave allegro solo grey gathers,
Strings of winter fantasias
Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants,...
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Categories: fevers, song, winter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPainting You

...Painting You

Before painting, I first sketch you
In my mind’s eye…To compose
The lines, shapes, shadows and lights, 
That work altogether to form a semblant sight
Of you for any relative, frie...
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Categories: fevers, color, devotion, feelings, health,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberBow To Me

...A genie's lamp cannot compare,
To smoke awoken from my breath,
Slithered out in ancient swear,
Unshackled life from sudden death.

Hear me now in brazen bond,
Bow to me, before now still,
From...
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Categories: fevers, allegory, confusion, crazy, dance,
Form: Rhyme

This New Eden

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"This New Eden"

This eden 
rolls gently over me
like Sunlight beams
the car lights shine 
luminosity along 
the road, the dark night
dims eventually and 
morning arriv...
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Categories: fevers, muse,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberA Frail Mind

...Sadness creeps in akin to an acrid taste.
Magnificent dreams are now gone to waste.
Fevers rage on as birds sing a song.
My mind is awake, but something is wrong.

Frail it becomes, ...
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Categories: fevers, analogy, angst, inspiration, mental
Form: Rhyme

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