IncarnationHaving been so long untouched,
I’d become a child beyond touch
and unclean.
So, when suffocatingly
roused from a nightmare of death
to unbreathable silence
in an oxygen tent, I cried
afraid of dying alone.
From somewhere
(outside of all darkness)
you appeared
(starched-pinafored and perfumed
a student nurse working nights
after classes)
bringer of light
restorer of air
redeemer.
At your...
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Categories:
sick, 2nd grade, childhood, cry,
Form: Free verse
Love Hate AwayFrom whence it came and for what purpose, completely mystifies.
Could be from earth's galaxy with The One God to look toward
or another universe, though those with degrees say such is jive.
Perhaps, said denial is one omnipotent wisdom has long adored.
Here it did appear, causing humans to endlessly, painfully agonize,
as it senselessly, cruelly, ever stains us...
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Categories:
sick, conflict, deep, god, hate,
Form: Free verse
RememberedI remember in every detail
the kitchen where my grandmother
worked while helping out
at my uncle’s convenience store.
There was just a flimsy curtain
separating the living quarters;
a bell would announce
when customers walked in.
I remember that big window by the table
where there was a tiny 6” tv and
the far corner where once in a while
she would pull...
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Categories:
sick, dark, grief, loss, memory,
Form: Free verse
Hospital Stairs
These stairs have wept a million tears
walking from parking lot to hospital room
Hearts travel them, to meet their worst fears
Through shadows and shame, past years
Blessed by the memoires who consume
These stairs have wept a million tears
With the music of a soul ringing in my ears
There’s more love and grace than gloom
Hearts travel them, to meet...
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Categories:
sick, conflict, courage, fear, grief,
Form: Villanelle
oh how my soul rotsi wonder if this feeling will pass.
if the skin rotting beneath my eyes will become a permanent color of blue,
if the bruises on my knees will fade to nothing more then flesh.
they say this feeling goes away as you age-
im not so sure about that.
i feel the agonizing sensation of pain rotting...
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Categories:
angst, depression, sad, sick,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A TearA single tear is all I can give,
For my body is drained of that pleasure.
I’m too weak to remember the years I lived,
Or the days too heavy to measure.
So where does that leave me falling?
What is it that could cure me?
A single walk would tell me nothing -
But at least for a moment I’d be...
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Categories:
sick, cry, freedom, heartbreak, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
IncarnateBloodlet me, my precious
You can make this my willing sacrifice
To cure me of impurity, of sickness.
Cut gashes into my face.
Discard chunks of my body.
These cliffs into my mind,
Scars of unhealing, they save me.
Blotch my red everywhere.
Nobody wants my stained mind, but you—
You save all the sympathy—
Iridescent, darling, could you ever understand?
Can't you see,
I want to...
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Categories:
sick, abuse, imagination, longing, lust,
Form: Free verse
3 WORDS, 1 SWORDJust thought of the B-word,
Perhaps it’s tied to the F-word.
Now I feel like the S-word—
They all strike sharp, like a sword.
Cutting both edges, cold and fierce,
Though I remain just a piece.
But my mind pleads for peace,
To understand and release.
B for bad, of what just came,
I hoped for more, maybe fame.
Yet the result spelled more shame,
Replaying...
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Categories:
sick, poems, school,
Form: Free verse
Bad Sick BrainsBad sick brains/ A jolt to the soul Energy raw, untamed, a primal scream/
Then Blink-182, "First Date," pop punk dreams, sixty million views, a digital stream, what a bad dream/ is anybody makin’ money nowadays? But views ain’t loyalty, tour duty, the grit and the grind/
The scar tissue earned, a chair...
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Categories:
sick, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
The outside world makes me sick, suffocates me, dissolves my essence beneath my own skinThe outside world makes me sick, suffocates me, dissolves my essence beneath my own skin,
Home seems like a distant illusion, reality—a thin veil ready to tear,
I beg for other shells to cover my body, to hide my vulnerability,
Loose clothes, shining chains, quiet shoes—all to divert attention.
I try to hide the pain, to blur the days...
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Categories:
sick, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I Am AliveWhy am I so different? Why does the world look at me as if I am broken and lost? Tragedy does not define me touched as a child now forced to wear the scars of my generational curse.Due to one man’s uncontrollable lust the world treats me as if though I am better off dead....
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Categories:
sick, abuse, beautiful, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Hide of Tyke in HoldHeartthrob in damsel drag
Belief of human bile
Completely instilling cascading dregs of mechanical flesh, bones and spit
64th avenue
And coiling deft doom
Winged balls of bulging blood and speckled steel
Merry wails and flutters of moths unsealed
Fitted upon falling kneel
And reckoned release of rotten roadkill-
Rats and babes and brats
Congealed candy and sickeningly sweet brandy
And hailed light of...
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Categories:
sick, abuse, desire, drug, film,
Form: Free verse
chest cold in April
Categories:
sick,
Form: Senryu
Poison Ivy
Walking on her way to class
she developed poison ivy
Chants of ‘Kill the Jews’ – crude and crass
have now replaced in 'Crimson’s yahd’ *
...
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Categories:
education, hate, jewish, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
sick, 10th grade, children, death,
Form: Haiku
Specific Types of Sick Poems
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