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Malady Poems - Poems about Malady

Cancer
I've known of a girl, young and brave Not for long, yet it's etched clear an impression she left on. Struck like a storm, came a cacodemon, Strolling through her blood Tormenting every cell it encountered. Could never gauge the depth of her agony or extent of her cancer. Therapy too left behind nasty scars Her beauty taking a distinct cast Something...

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Categories: malady, cancer, care, grief, sick,
Form: Free verse
From malady comes remedy
From where so a fault comes to call, There from hint comes how to forestall: Boils and blisters that burn, Back by hot foments turn, From ailment does its cure unroll. _____________________ Translation |11.01.2025| Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhashhitam. The wisdom of this verse tells us that remedy...

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Categories: malady, pain,
Form: Quintain (English)



Premium Member Malady of Heavy Sighs
Suddenly when melancholy arrived, she engraved the words 'sad' deep into my manic mind. Then abandoned me in a pit of sinister silence. Who turned out the lights inside the moon? Now the horizon looks like tar and the voices become louder. Every morning is a miserable melody in this malady of heavy sighs. I strum the invisible strings of my mourning mandolin, but they...

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Categories: malady, angst, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lucy Lee Malady
Kept her malady a secret from the suiters who were smitten was Lucy Lee. She rapidly dives from insanely happy to a blubbering withering sad little me. Keep it to yourself her parents told her sisters and brothers and often too. They wanted to get her married off, and sent off to Detroit, Miami or Timbuktu. Lucy was an...

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Categories: malady, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member M'Lady Malady
No ladies, these bugs, not quite. Asian lady beetles Little thugs: they like to bite! ————— An American 767, like a haiku, and must include a reference to a bug...

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Categories: malady, insect,
Form: Haiku



Love - a Malady
"But love's a malady without a cure. ~ John Dryden" Love is indeed a malady, greatest malady of all Since birth we all whine for love And exclusive love we want from others. All for love wars have been fought, endless crime happens Acids are thrown, rapes occur, murder is done.... Many suffer from depression But what is love? How many of us are...

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Categories: malady, love,
Form: Free verse
Love Is a Malady
"Love is a lady for which there is no cure." John Dryden Love is a malady for which there is no cure. Some endure a bitter pill. They dare to love, Seeking Heaven's benevolence. But the pains of eros Outweigh its gain. Love is a malady for which there is no cure. Alluring is the hope of pleasure. For this a wounded soul...

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Categories: malady, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Malady Melts Music
hoisted hankerings puke nauseating vying view lofty lust yawns puncturing pulpy lawn twain tainted tune mystic melody prune rusty riffs blush under octave's touch callous crescendoes' crush smirking pitch pitches gaunt glissando clinches birthing sumptuous A6 tuning atmosphere tenses malady melts music. '20:01:30:06:18...

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Categories: malady, muse, mystery,
Form: Sonnet
Chemical Malady
Can’t function without it The conjunctional life And punctures confounding A subjugal strife My endurance depleting My inevitable fallacies Determined to beat this Chemical malady but Deep down in the ditch Is where I feel safe Weak in the grips Of insanity’s embrace You can’t lift me out Try as you may Insipid, I pout Is this where I’ll stay? (Written 09/17/2018)...

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Categories: malady, addiction, anxiety, depression, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Human Malady
Human Malady Everything has it's time When an event is ripe Nothing can elude it As the chiming of a clock Designates a specific time of day So events in our lives Yesterday is history Today is here, alive with us Tomorrow is pregnant, unknown No matter our escapade, life goes on We have a task, not to be bogged...

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Categories: malady, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Malady
The malady Knocks on my door The hall is empty and bleak Dark doors keeping secrets I tape a spoon against a wine glass Its plinks sings from room to room ...

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Categories: malady, absence, age, art,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Malady Motel, No Vacancy - Collaboration With Space Cadet
TATEIAN WHEELS OF LIFE Twenty Dora-band aids barely cover one of my scars across my chest. It's my stomach this time. But one hour of reading James Tate makes my mouth curled upward, with an outward breath and smile. Though as morning ended, I thought, "My mood today is nowhere, I haven't been able to...

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Categories: malady, health, imagery, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
Beautiful Malady
I walked into a room full of sinners and saints and saw a dozen representations of me Some were shackled by the same temporal constraints from which the rest were utterly free Together, they constituted one greater whole that encompassed the essence of man Like letters on the papyrus of an unfurled scroll Like feathers on a falcon's wingspan What is a sinner...

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Categories: malady, addiction, adventure, angel, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
This Malady
Listen to this naysayer, Where thee never meets his course, Deny deny deny, Nein nein nein as the Germans say, His heart is hard like a stone, He battles with his own emotions, That lead his head topsy-turvy, He's ill tempered, Loathsome bipolar they call him, Mixture of poisons stifle his heart, Where no words venture...

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Categories: malady, anger, death, depression, emo,
Form: I do not know?
A Malady of the Mind
A malady of the mind Dominates the will As the surging river Overruns the mill Omnipotent craving The bullpen cannot hold A temptation unremitting Annulling principle No affection or reason Or threat of penalty Can possibly deter - or - Potentiate the will...

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Categories: malady, addiction, drink,
Form: Quatrain

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