Short Shingles Poems

Bugger off Shingles!
Go away fleas! I don't need
Itchy skin disease!...

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My roof is immune to weather worries
since I got my Shingles vaccination....

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Snow falls on house roofs 
falling in with the shingles 
set in a pattern...

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viral symptoms sprout
white pus seeps from spiny tips
envy masks gangrene...

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Savage

Hurtful

Igneous

Nefarious

Grevous

Languishing

Enveloping

Sores...

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pain
shingles
horrific
so damned tender
on three kinds of meds
painful awful
terrible
nasty
stuff...

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red-breasted robins
bob across front yard ~seek worms....
frosted shingles shine  ...

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shingles
hitting someone hard
in sheer pain
needing relief and respite
gruesome reality
lacking strength
energy annihilated
sorrowful amount of pain...

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RAIN

River dancers on the shingles
Attenuating rhythmic shifts
Icy shivery down neck tingles
Nuances of seasoned riffs


John G. Lawless
10/23/2015...

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I hear them on the
Roof of my house, the flying
Witches land on my
Shingles, laughing and cackling
Wishing ill to all within

Russell Sivey...

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There was a roofer named Bob Ringles
Who liked to go to dances for singles.
There he met his soul mate
Who OK'd a wedding date.
'Til she learned Bob had the shingles....

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I know this will get better
because I cannot fathom it feeling any worse
although my eighty-eight year old mother put 
bleach on her shingles.
That was probably worse....

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The TV is off
And cannot tell
About the splatter.

The weather forecaster
Will not break the idyll
Of hearing rain fall on shingles

While I, sheltered
In your passion,
Imagine waterfalls....

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Taking the vaccine for shingles
Two shot series, not a single
They say the second more than tingles
Makes you not want to intermingle
That’s okay, I’ll write a jingle
About an empty can of Pringles...

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No building long survives Time’s hurricane,
It scatters shingles, rends each roof
And bares the rafters to the rain,
The skeleton of walls stands proof
That nothing fashioned by mere Man endures aloof....

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The Spanish flu started everything off
Now we are excited by a cough
Typhoid Mary, regular gal
Please keep six feet, okay, pal?
Measles, mumps, rubella.
Aids and HIV
And shingles too
Chickenpox
Virus
Sick...

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You must check on the net these amazing art visuals
They'll blow your mind and pop your roofing shingles
Incredible can't describe
Marvels of which I scribe
My mind hasn't recovered from these fantastic images...

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New shingles refresh a roof,
a sagging ceiling drywalled,
a cracked window repaired,
a busted door reinstalled.

When cooler heads do prevail,
arguments can be resolved.
But words of anger and hate,
once spoken can’t be recalled…...

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Serpigo, roseola, German measles, flu.
Shingles, chicken pox, pandemic Corona boo hoo.
Chilling fever, chest pains, aches all the way through.
Muscle fatigue, slap cheek, and mumps poking you.
I feel pretty great today.  How about you?...

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Poems are coming slowfully.
For I am most woefully
And truly most woefully
In the hospital doe-fully

Itching my skin until bleeding
More potent pills I am pleading
Poems are decidedly misleading
Me out of this stupor I’ll be needing...

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on lonesome journey
pick shingles of life from
shore of time

with poised dreams
build castle tsunami won’t shatter
making memory debris

May 12, 2020
Visual selected : #2
Contest : Flow With The Collum Lune
Sponsor : Nette Onclaud...

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(OIL PAINTING 1)

Brothers on the beach,
Seaside in reach,
The two amigos,
Blood brother bros,
Fraternals and kin,
Pals and companions,
Sidekicks and playmates,
Coastline siblings,
Buddies in the shingles,
A forever brother band, 
Golden memories of the strand....

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The scratching wakes me up
Ridiculously unsatisfying
Yet notoriously put there by shingles
Or excruciatingly painful allergen.
A scream for help

Time is in my way
Sorry I sid not sneak my Excedrin pm into hospital
Morphine is not cutting it.
Each time more insistent 
On a more potent drug...

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are you
or
am
i
questions from
the roof tops
shingles
to me
tied
bundled
to what feet
answer me
state me
never mind me
mister mister
missed me
i
am
love
he was
breed
breed breed
bread to bleed
drink red cup
little handle
get a grip
all
of
it
i
am
are you
or
am
i
?...

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To see old relatives can get you thinking
if your health will also soon be sinking.
Will you get their shingles, bunions or bad knees?
Will you get dementia or need some surgeries?
And if afflicted, will you face it well or will you cave?
Or might you be the lucky one to go
 "relatively" pain-free. . . to the grave?...

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