Canis Lupus
Canis Lupus
The sound of a pin drop in the
kitchen downstairs wakens me.
I get a whiff of a strange scent
not one I can identify.
My eyes open and I can
see in the dark.
Unusual, as I always stub
my toe on something.
The nightlight is on and
I make my way to the bathroom.
I glance in the mirror and
see a strange
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Categories:
lupus, horror,
Form: Free verse
Lupus Wolf
Patting myself on my brown back
My immune system is out of wack
Lupus is flaring I’m in silver sack
Amethyst aches pearly pain is jacked
Sores in the roof of my mouth
Eating and drinking hurts me now
Tender joints not the kind you smoke
That’s a thought maybe I need dope
Poetry relief to red rescue me
That potd was at cost
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Categories:
lupus, angst, butterfly, courage, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Peach Pity Party
Welcome to my peach pity party
It’s my own fault it’s started
Without music I so lavender love
I find my pen more and piano not enough
I have ambitions and I notice now
That time is ticking winding down
I’m sure to die poor and unknown
I’m ok with that but dreams are blown
Dreams of leaving earth better than it
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Categories:
lupus, age, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Lupus Lullaby
Don’t be weak brown eyes don’t cry
Have to be sterling silver strong deny
Purple pain when it’s lupus vanity
Nothing to gain but mood swings insanity
Why don’t they get it I am tired
Of pain from the bullet of gun misfired
For my body turns in on itself
Could I use pain as a melody for health
Buck lupus you
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Categories:
lupus, angst, art, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Pink Pain Lupus Brain
Pink pain paints my brain
After a few woah is me’s
I begin to breathe blackberry breaths
How lucky I am to be unwell
It’s a blessing for brown body to yell
Making blue bones ache not causing death
I was turquoise told
my blood pressure is too low
Then they ran lupus tests
My doctors are like gold
I value
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Categories:
lupus, angst, appreciation, art, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Black Butterfly
black butterfly rash
feel like deflated balloon
lupus flare is back
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Categories:
lupus, angst, butterfly,
Form: Senryu
Canis Lupus
~ for Ana ~
I was there many times -
I’d been watching him for years,
(he, black as coal),
almost two decades now,
an extraordinary age for a wolf ...
every full moon, and only then,
he came to the clifftops …
to howl, you ask?
yes, to howl ... certainly that,
for his voice was majestic,
but it was far more than just a
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Categories:
lupus, animal, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Lupus
Looking for a cure for lupus an incurable disease
Understanding that it may kill me
Probably not very fast
Unaware if I will last
Still standing strong.
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Categories:
lupus, care,
Form: Acrostic
Blue Caboose Train of Thought
This little kid is the best of me
Seems as if sometimes was raising me
Before he was winged was reading peeps
By age 2-3 he was cop blocking
Named him Tahj his life has a plan
He has the heart of a renaissance man
He’s methodical quite particular and
Middle name Micah like a prophet he’s grand
As a single mom
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Categories:
lupus, appreciation, black love, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Lupus Et Luna By Mike Williams
A lone wolf yowls lachrymose,
At a lowly weeping full moon,
A hyperborean chill blows,
To quake the trees snow-clad festoon.
Reverent icy waters stand still,
Solid as old placid cold stone,
And crystallize its surface frill,
Webbing fractures as cracking bone.
The moonlight shimmers lupine pelage,
Luminous white, silver, and grey,
Scintillating eyes peer a ledge,
To skulk the skirted night away.
A carmen matricale of
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Categories:
lupus, animal, howl, image, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Lupus
Oh, the ignominy of being a skeptic!
My friends abandoned me in their typical fashion:
A mocking wave of the brow, and a pitiless grimace.
A shadow lumbers across the hall of time.
The light at the end of the tunnel
is Death by his lampost, his cold scythe in hand.
We pounce at the day like a lion,
only for it
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Categories:
lupus, angst, death, emo, psychological,
Form: Free verse
*****Lupus Homini Est
You will not often find me
In amongst the fold
Being chased from the pen
Wherein your treasure lies
I will not clothe myself in sheep
I cannot be but that which I am
lone
I am wolf
If we are inclined to meat
I will grant what is yours
But choose to hunt me down
And I will eat you alive
I’ll gnaw
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Categories:
lupus, imagery, leaving, people, satire,
Form: Free verse
The Lupus Was a She
The lupus was a she
howling at an orange winter moon
baying for a he
with pups yelping unison in tune.
“Where could Daddy be?”
They question Mother as she softly moans.
"Just wait there and see.
He'll bring luscious catch of meat and bones."
A lone wolf was a she
to weak to gather food with all the pack.
Hunters on a spree
had
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Categories:
lupus, animal, death,
Form: Personification
Canis Lupus
I'd been watching him for years, (black as coal),
Almost two decades now, an extraordinary age for a wolf ...
Every full moon, and only then, he came to the clifftops.
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Categories:
lupus, animal, loss, nature,
Form: Free verse
Lupus
Lord my heart my heart
I’m crying out in so much pain
My joints swelling up
My face developed butterflies a rash
I’m weak can’t move can’t get out the bed
Lord I know you don’t put no more
No more on me than I can bare
But my skin developed ulcers and sores
The world looking at me like a
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Categories:
lupus, anger, black african american,
Form: Free verse
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