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Stroke Victims
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Mark Toney
| Couplet |
confusion, health, poetry, sick,
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The poem about the flu
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Alex Duffy
| Free verse |
fun, funny, hilarious, sick,
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Why Todd CULLHELP, question mark
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Word Awl
| Dramatic Monologue |
sick, america, dark, death, fairy,
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IT'S NOT FAIR
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Line Gauthier
| Free verse |
sick, angst, god, hope, mother,
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Becalming Broth
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Carol Connell
| Senryu |
blessing, food, metaphor, sick,
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Pray that you never end up in the cancer ward
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Marc Acrich
| Prose |
sick,
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Sumac Seduction
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Personification |
sick, allusion, flower, love hurts,
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Under the Weather
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ilene bauer
| Rhyme |
sick,
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Robbed of Hope
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Gershon Wolf
| Rhyme |
night, sick, sleep,
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HANG IN THERE
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Line Gauthier
| Free verse |
sick, courage, endurance, future, hope,
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DARKNESS NEARBY
by Line Gauthier
There are things
he won’t tell me as his wife
like how he’s worried
death is near and
he’s letting us down
He wants to be strong
and grab the control
but...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
death, sick, silence, strength,
OUT OF MY HANDS
by Line Gauthier
They rolled him away
In a wheelchair
Down the hospital hall
Out of my reach
Cutting the cord
Promising to bring him back
They rolled him away
His future in their hands
Leaving...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
anxiety, hope, love, sick,
Sick Love
by Trevor McLeod
That poor old woman who loved her food
was tender to my heart.
Despite the fact she ate pure junk
and cancer lost her spark.
But my dear heart...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
sick, abuse, analogy, dark, death,
Never Is Enough
by mark palmer
Quietly with cap to hand he begs on the street
With Cross legs he waits with a sigh,
Cold in the pouring rain, with his fingers...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
sick, loneliness, lost, poverty, sad,
JUST
by Line Gauthier
just one of many
in the game of statistics
feeling less alone
posted on August 30, 2018...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
change, loneliness, perspective, sick,
Nothing Between
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
So full of empty between the ears;
void breeze reasoning,
zero thoughts a-blowing
Banished to the barren cornfields,
multi-grain years of accumulated wisdom
bear no pleasant, golden-age yield
Black sky intellectual...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
dark, perspective, sad, sick,
THE C BOMB
by Line Gauthier
There he was
In his white coat
Afraid of our reaction
As he dropped the C word
We watched it bounce off the floor
And hang there suspended
No one reaching...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
cancer, sick, surreal, truth,
SICK
by Line Gauthier
sick yet
busy comforting others
- who consoles him?
posted on August 28, 2018...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
sick, anxiety, care, irony, perspective,
Aging Heart
by Eve Roper
prevailing unrest
face buried in a wet pillow
sounds of coughing pain
8/22/2018...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
age, heart, sick,
Sickness- Reverse
by Debbie Walker
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Free verse |
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Categories:
death, sick,
Sickness
by dewayne coleman
All sickness aint death
I know this to be true
Some sickness can be a blessing
Some sickness can improve
Some sickness can be a gateway
Out of a dull...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
beautiful, depression, sick, wisdom,
Sick
by Juli- Michelle
If this is sick to my stomach, then what else can hurt?
The flames have charred my toes and are licking my skirt
My eyes are blurring...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, depression, sick,
A Burning Fever
by Caren Krutsinger
a burning fever
small faerie kisses from mom
quickly sooth the pain
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Haiku |
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Categories:
pain, sick,
The Cold Bug
by Gershon Wolf
A little germ to bring you down
Just when you think you're going to town
A most unwelcome, uninvited guest
One that...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
sick,
Dying is the only answer
by Raj Ranjit
What's my fault I'm facing the problem like that
It's the fact
What was my mistake god I'm so sad
And you are bad
Unexpected day unexpected memories
Full...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
sick, depression, feelings, mental illness,
In The Belly Of A Whale
by Curtis Moorman
IN THE BELLY OF A WHALE
There was a young man named Jonah
Who thought that he was a goner
But he lived to tell
How a huge grey...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
death, fish, sick,
Goodbye
by Reginald Telemacque
The nights are dark and no longer cold
It's just scorching heat
The pain has become unbearable
And I can't seem to sleep
It's been...
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ABC |
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Categories:
sick, death, fate, funeral, goodbye,
Six-Word Couplet Series -July 2018
by Mark Toney
Pay Your Taxes
No one relaxes
Before paying taxes
Close Shave
Homeless man shaved
By cop saved
Wait For It…
American tax cheat
IRS hot seat
Bacteria Blues
Watch out, fella!
Beware of salmonella!
Twitter Rants
Twitter “shadow...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
sick, anxiety, conflict, corruption, inspiration,
Bacteria Blues
by Mark Toney
Watch out, fella!
Beware of Salmonella!...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
sick, anxiety, death, food, mystery,
My five senses
by fauxcroft wade
I could sense something was wrong
So I went to see moving carefully among the trees,
I saw a building of harsh stone
Unforgiving standing alone,
I...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
animal, death, senses, sick,