Long Meningitis Poems

Words
Like I’ve never felt the worst
Like I’ve never felt it hurt
You don’t know me now do you?

Ghosts 
Haunting brand new unused minds
Feeding on a soul alive
You’ve not felt it now do you?

Was a tough struggle,...

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“2 weeks notice”

It’s the polite amount time to give before you move on,
Before you no longer have obligations to uphold with people you soon want to forget
But those are those people and I am me...

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Sudan 1993 and an ugly famine reaps its prey

malnourished bodies make it difficult to believe

that women were created from the rib of men

it is the most vulnerable who carry the weight

if you pardon the cynical...

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On the plain of oblivion, where dreams lose their color under the leaden sky,
Our country stretches like a canvas of memories unraveling in the wind,
Here, where politicians are the shadows of extinguished times, without echo,
We...

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My Brother

                    Today is our twenty-fifth birthday, Dear Brother!
       ...

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a gentleman from a grand, but time-worn oil-painting,
unbelievably handsome in his forties,
immaculately dressed in a formal grey suit,
from the backdrop of a luscious tea-garden
on a mountaineous plush valley,
looked at me with an intriguing smile.....
in my...

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black snakeroot, yew, cocklebur, poison (ivy, oak, parsnip, sumac, ryegrass, hemlock), blister bushes, daffodil, mayapple, lilium, jerusalem cherry, indian licorice, deadly nightshade, christmas rose, bleeding heart, asparagus berries, wolfsbane, tomato leaves, doll’s eyes, the suicide...

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"Mom and I and Graham Cracker Pie ~ ~"

Mom's been gone a long, long time, 
forever and a day.
She always treated each of us
in a very special way!

My favorite "Mommy" memory
of all the things she...

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somehow i lost myself
right now i have no feeling
in this moment i lose myself in the façade that includes her
my one true love is waiting for me
i am too much of a coward to tell...

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McDonald’s To Mom – Bug Off

By Elton Camp

In Arizona, disgraceful conduct is being seen
Because a parent wants McDonalds kept clean

Filth in the play areas Dr. Carr-Jordan found
The places refused to take action that is sound

She...

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Jonnie Peacock was born on 28th May in 1993, 
And is an English sprinter and right leg amputee, 
He won gold in the vital games of London 2012,
And into the category T44 he does neatly...

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ZACH

Let me take away your heartache, 
Let me bear your unbound pain. 
For I don't want you going through, 
All that suffering again. 

On the worst day of my life thus far, 
We were standing...

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Colds, sore throats, Meningitis,
Now I have the flu.
Wondering will this ever stop?
What do I need to do?
Vitamin supplements I’ve taken,
The guilt from work I dread.
All these negative emotions,
Whilst I’m lying down in my bed.
The children...

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Impotent at birth

Impotent at death

         and only somewhat potent in between

Why were you born without your own consent

What was the karmic guilt of your first birth
 ...

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I once worked with a youth who had gingivitis
Twenty years younger yet she already had arthritis

Pretty enough in spite of her dermatitis
She so craved attention we all thought caused by meningitis

Winters seemed worse with time...

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First grade, pelted with eggs
  Second grade, broke both legs
Third grade, fell down the stairs
  Fourth grade, clawed by a bear

Fifth grade, ran into a tree
  Sixth grade, twisted a knee
Seventh grade,...

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I once had a little boy
But he was only here on loan
God in his infinite wisdom
Decided to call him home

I loved my darling little boy
I loved him every day
Right up to the very moment
He sadly...

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