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Parkinsons Poems

Outlaw Band of Clatter

...The youth have teeth like tigers or tight ropes
Abundant mess of forest hair,    d u r e s s
They charge the strings with their electric hopes
And bloody drum with battered sticks possess

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Categories: parkinsons, age, music,
Form: Lyric

Hero

...sits alone
Parkinsons got him
ex-athlete...

Categories: parkinsons, age, anger, angst,
Form: Haiku

The Undefeated

...The Undefeated

Tyson Fury he's a man,
If he says he'll  do it, you know he can,
He Has been down, but never  beaten,
He can never be accused of cheate'n

 He has risen like the Pheonix,
Many...

Categories: parkinsons, dedication, depression, destiny, drug,
Form: Epigram

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Illness Doesn'T Define You

...It feels like a lifetime ago...
     when I had the strength and endurance of two people.
Why I could work inside or outside for 6 to 8 hrs. without difficulty.
I could get a lot done in a day.
T...

Categories: parkinsons, appreciation, beauty, growing up,
Form: I do not know?

Reality of Old Age

...When I was 14 yrs old...
     I never thought I would turn the magical 16...
          that would be the time I could get my drivers license
               and a job. Boy was I big stuff then.

...

Categories: parkinsons, age, courage,
Form: I do not know?

Geoengineering

...Geoengineering!

The majority of people 
On this beautiful planet,
All with their own lifestyles,
Culture, religion, 
History and tales!
When they see these,
Long white streaks,
In the sky,
...

Categories: parkinsons, literature,
Form: Epic

Yopd

...Y. O. P. D. 

No one ever expects to hear the words
*you have an incurable disease …
It's not going to kill you in the next few years 
But life as you know it will never be the same *

YOPD
S...

Categories: parkinsons, courage, encouraging, health, mental
Form: Free verse

Parkinsons

...Is it the drugs or is it the disease? 
That's slowly drowning me in the deepest of seas..
The everyday battle, I fight with each breath, 
has become overwhelming, I'm out of my depth. 
I feel it ...

Categories: parkinsons, courage, death, emotions, fear,
Form: Free verse

Year of the Acorn

...Year of the Acorn
(For my Father who
has Parkinsons &
Alzheimer's)
22/12/12  21:21
pm

Out on a winter walk
one day
you solemnly put an
acorn into my hand.
Something in my head
whi...

Categories: parkinsons, age, dad, dedication, father
Form: Free verse

Parkies

...Why do you stare .....
Stare at me?
Step a little closer
then you might just see.
Was it my shuffling?
That made you look fast
or was it my stumbling
when I walked past?
Whichever it was,
I truly don...

Categories: parkinsons, judgement,
Form: Free verse

Life Ain'T Fair

...Was so excited to hear some news
From our dear friends Lynda and Al
About to embark on an exciting cruise
What could possibly go afoul

Lynda's had Parkinsons for many years
Needs a wheelchai...

Categories: parkinsons, sad,
Form: Quatrain

Wars

...my father loved war movies
not so groovy

war is hell
the bell tolls for me
he watched ww ii movies
the watch

darkened sky
death is nigh
why do we march to death
march winds

his father ww I vet
i n...

Categories: parkinsons, war, father, father, cancer,
Form: I do not know?

Clay and Flowers

...the parkinsons disease sat next me.the flower,oh so still houred,do we kill?crazy 
flower,it always ask the time of when we kill.its not up to me,its a sharper 
image.damage done,i be gone,left alo...

Categories: parkinsons, art,
Form: Prose Poetry