The cry of the heartMy heart cries
With no tears and no sounds
But not less sadness and sorrow
Aging, sickness and disabilities come one by one
Happiness and youth comes and goes
Nothing in this world will last
Maybe only love in my heart
Or maybe in your memory...
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Categories:
sick, age, destiny, happiness, sad,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
sick,
Form: Free verse
Liberals Explained
Wanna know what unhinged looks like, America? You’re looking at it. The Biden era is over thank God, and with Trump back in the White House normalcy and sanity and common sense returns. Congratulations to American Eagle jeans for leading the way. Woketards can drown their sorrows with a can of Bud Light....
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Categories:
america, culture, sick,
Form: Political Verse
HomeA blank page,
A blank mind,
My thoughts consumed by one thing…
You.
I tried burying myself in organising,
And even then you pop up everywhere,
It’s like my brain won’t stop,
I can’t do anything without you,
Or so it seems.
I’m shaking just thinking about losing you,
But yet there’s a peace in me,
I know you’ll be fine,
I know you’ll come back,
I know…
I...
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Categories:
anxiety, sick,
Form: Free verse
Colors In A Coffee House
Double time hits for the ceiling —
The clouds of white smoke, the healing
Childhood in my skin finally relaxes
Everyone around me in lapses
Coffee forms the swollen cheeks
With history's pick of bean
Water remembers
Water pushed under embers
The percolator
Like some wound drips her.
Eyes on the preppy barista —
Maybe we both see in similar vistas
She writes down...
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Categories:
sick, age, color, deep, drink,
Form: Couplet
maybe they are here for a camp check upgirl and her daddy are in the doctor’s waiting room
neither of them appears to be sick
she looks especially well.
Her eyes are bright, and she is moving around like a bubble
She smiles at me and waves.
I wave back, glad to see her.
Maybe they are here for a camp check-up?
She turns and regurgitates all over the seat.
Her...
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Categories:
sick,
Form: Free verse
Without Fear
It’s the darkness, flooding the silent room
A still so bitter it flows, splashing fears
Weary as the moments I would never presume
Pierce the heart with feelings, frantic tears
It’s the night, breathing in echoes of anxiety
Murmuring shadows who still the soul
Wiping out the silhouettes of notoriety
Following the screams of a dread’s control
It’s the dusk, ending twilight’s...
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Categories:
sick, anxiety, cancer, fear, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Ancient Egyptian translation of 'Dialogue of a Misanthrope with his Soul'Metaphor and simile have been with the human race for thousands of years. This is my English translation of an excerpt from an ancient Egyptian poem estimated to be around 4,000 years old:
Excerpt from "Dialogue of a Misanthrope with his Soul"
(ancient Egyptian poem circa 2000 BC)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Death lies before me:
like a...
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Categories:
sick, death, freedom, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
When You Catch ColdSickness can turn your house into a personal jail
When friends come to visit you use anything as a veil
The moments you lose track of the day and time
If you need medicine you would spend every dime
To pass the time you watch old episodes on Netflix
Eating soup for dinner and inhaling vapors of vicks
It feels like...
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Categories:
sick,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
sick, abuse, bullying, death, hate,
Form: Haiku
She's SickSomeone saw me crying the other day
They didn't know me but asked if I was okay
I sniffled and said someone I know is dying
It's not perfectly true so I feel bad for lying
It's not an old family member or a friend of mine
But it's the me I used to know that's dying
I can't get out...
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Categories:
sick, 12th grade, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Attention Deficits-Dysautonomia edition
Warm yellow light.
Chilly, for indoor.
Soft, soothing, piano.
Music—
Door slides open.
A man walks in, his eyes—
Rain’s wailing outside.
He talks to the nurse.
His voice hoarse like sand—
Flash, lightening.
Raindrops darken the dusty walk—
Thunder.
He sinks into the bench beside me.
Stinging smell of cigarette butts—
Another thunder.
Door slides close and muffles it.
Nurse says my name.
I walk into the doctor’s—
A muffled thunder.
I don’t...
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Categories:
sick, anxiety, mental health, mental
Form: Free verse
WondersongWell I wonder
If I sleep,
Will tonight be good dreams?
Or will the nightmares of the day continue on?
And if my sleep will not come
Will new worries cease to start?
Or am I doomed to worry till I'm gone?
And I wonder.
My wife
She's far away
In our home that she's made
From the broken timbers of my...
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Categories:
father, loneliness, love, sick,
Form: Lyric
EmergencyPolly Pleasance was seven years old, like the decade soon is going;
She had so many pretty dollies, like deep purple pansies, showing.
Polly took care of her dear friends, for love's always taken seriously;
Buying doll clothes with her allowance, like night, adorned deliriously!
They were admired, and the envy of friends. She had so many dolls!
As magenta...
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Categories:
child, nursery rhyme, sick,
Form: Couplet
The Final Word
I didn’t expect this – it came quickly, without warning
I couldn’t hide.
It left me with no choice – but to go to war,
battling the deafening poison,
the affliction feeling like the deafening crash
thunder raging, pouring out its fury
I didn’t ever imagine this would come to be,
silencing the courage that I’d once felt,
giving my plans a...
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Categories:
sick, age, anxiety, cancer, health,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Sick Poems
Definition | What is Sick in Poetry?
Poems Related to Sick
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