Long Illness Poems
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Dragon StewOn an early morning just before school
My tummy is churning my head hurts too
My feet are cold my forehead is hot
I have a runny nose and a tongue with blue dots
“Mom come quick!” I helplessly...
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Categories:
illness, 4th grade, 5th grade, adventure, anxiety, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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Categories:
illness, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About the Coronavirus IPoems about the Coronavirus I
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote...
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Categories:
illness, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
Psychologically still thirteenPsychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
illness, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
illness, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
illness, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About the Coronavirus IiPoems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
illness, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
This Is Feminist UsIt's peaceful here in my backyard.
The crows sound happy
with warm October sunlight.
I just read about a deadly gathering in Las Vegas.
Absence of sun-drenched peace.
Inconvenient this time of lost loss.
Death is always inconvenient,
even when invited.
A veteran,
about...
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Categories:
anger, fear, humor, integrity, mental illness, military,
Form:
Political Verse
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
illness, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Mirza Ghalib TranslationsNear Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch
On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we might have pronounced you a saint...
if only we hadn't found
you...
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Categories:
illness, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth, urdu, women, words,
Form:
Verse
An Affective Disorder, the Doctor SaidNo, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie's number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worked hard,...
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Categories:
anxiety, mental illness, , 8th grade, ,
Form:
Prose
Victories For LoveThe problem of military reactions
to territorial control issues
is not merely that violence breeds further strategic development
of violence,
although this is no small,
nor amoral,
concern.
This primal problem of militarism by historic default
is that it is an intrinsically...
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Categories:
health, history, integrity, love, mental illness, military,
Form:
Political Verse
Disability, Illness and FundamentalismDisability, Illness and Fundamentalism
My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis,
When I was twelve and he fourteen,
It took away his ambitions,
To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam.
I understand being born with...
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Categories:
illness, atheist, cancer, health, prayer, religion, rights, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Contract Against GreatnessIn Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold ZeroSum accounting Souls.
If the perfectly powerful pure patriarchal patriot
were your...
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Categories:
culture, health, integrity, mental illness, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Prescribing Rebirth To Dt2DT2 came to me, unwillingly and clandestinely,
only because he was referred by his mother,
who was concerned that he was growing up and out
to become an ego-terrorist,
and she had heard of my feminist work as ecotherapist--
so...
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Categories:
birth, body, culture, health, humor, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Brain InjuryPain settles in quite instantly your senses
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic
twilight phase the injury abruptly strangles
thought my ears are always ringing with this...
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Categories:
america, anxiety, beautiful, lonely, mental illness, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Old Man Crabb - Both Audio and TextSixty some odd years ago, when I was just a kid, our home was on the very edge of town.
The man that lived next door to us - a Mr. - O. M. Crabb -...
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Categories:
illness, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the GhostHarriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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Categories:
illness, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOISCRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED
FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY
AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN I AM IN CRISIS AGAIN
FBI: OKAY WE ARE HERE...
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Categories:
america, analogy, anxiety, mental illness, military, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy ClimatesIn 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human...
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Categories:
illness, culture, earth, environment, health, nature, political, prejudice,
Form:
Prose Poetry
But Just Where Is God(Musings of a poet with huge doubts and a fragile faith)
Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?
When close friends die and other’s thoughts are suicidal,
When mankind’s soup du jour is loneliness with anguish
When mental...
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Categories:
god, mental illness, perspective, , atheist,
Form:
Blank verse
Let His Light Shine - the Candle of Hope Style~ Let His Light Shine ~
( Candle Of Hope )
~O~
Let
Love Hope
Peace fill heart
As walk with the Lord
In Him find best friend
May heart rejoice
Love the...
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Categories:
illness, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Classified Part FourI was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over to talk to me , he said that he was...
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Categories:
illness, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Finally Saved Part 2 - Translation From Rabindranath TagoreThis is the Second Part of the Translation from Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate Philosopher Poet from India.
Father only smiled; thought, "women
are emotionally heated balloons!
Life is a difficult salvation, they don't have that knowledge",
After...
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Categories:
illness, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form:
Free verse