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Sick Poems | Examples of Sick Poetry

Sick Poems - Examples of all types of sick poetry to share and read.ness. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for sick.
Premium Member 'A' is for 'Awful,' 'C' is for 'Cookie'
Once I ate a defective Oreo I’d imported from Lower Borneo I’d spent too much money My stomach...Read the rest...
Categories: food, money, sick,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Irritable Chest Cold
The sun had risen but could not be seen. Still daylight was welcome in her studio. She stood hunched with pain over her easel. The landscape was not quite what she wanted. She had decided to portray the...Read the rest...
Categories: sick,
Form: Free verse



Daddy's Little Girl
Hello, allow me to introduce myself. I wish my name was free, free as in not physically and mentally restrained. Sort of like how animals in the jungle can’t be tamed and how birds in the...Read the rest...
Categories: sick, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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A Knife Through My Hole
… You advance by the step, destined to accelerate my heartbeat; I have a tendency to feign nonchalant despite my rapid, unsteady breathing. Petrification courses through me as you stop, millimeters in front of me; shockingly, your...Read the rest...
Categories: sick, abuse, analogy, angst, betrayal,
Form: Narrative
You're dying
You're dying.... I'm Cancer, No denying. I'm happy No lying, Years fighting, Years trying, I love that, You're dying....Read the rest...
Categories: sick, cancer, conflict, dark, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Red Telephone Booth
An old gaunt lady With feeble steps Walked to the red telephone booth On the roadside pavement Every day she dialed a number And spoke inaudibly into the receiver As tears streamed down her crinkly face This continued for an hour Until...Read the rest...
Categories: sick, loneliness, mystery, old, red,
Form: Free verse
Live, Die, repeat
Live, die, repeat! Live, die, repeat! Live, die, repeat! Listen to these words from me, Bitter, not sweet. Live, Die, Repeat! In the realms of my world, it's live, die, repeat! Every time I live it, it's like I go to sleep. Especially at the end, where I hear a final...Read the rest...
Categories: sick, absence, cancer, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Shadows and Truths
On the noisy streets of a hurried world, Labels are thrown, like in a card game unfurled. A sad smile, or a tear, are signs of danger near, “You're anxious!”, “You're depressed!”, sharp voices we hear. With ease, society...Read the rest...
Categories: sick, abuse, integrity, memory, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Blackbody
I wish not to see another sunrise. I wish not to wake another day. I don’t want to trudge to another class or drive down another highway or let my tone deaf voice breach my lips again. I want to...Read the rest...
Categories: sick, death, depression, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Strange Disease
A strange disease is rolling coast to coast and leaves its victims on their knees in fog. The weaker mind feels the affliction most; next, those with an affinity for grog. Some say a brain worm fled the campaign...Read the rest...
Categories: sick,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Holiday Humor
in a flash Santa took off he has a case of whooping cough the reindeer are wired now hungry and tired they say it is time for beef stroganoff...Read the rest...
Categories: sick, animal, food, fun, giggle,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Cough Remedies
Psychological means are not enough when you have a persistent cough. If you try to will it to stop, you'll flip your lid or your top. I wouldn't recommend a drop. It won't work and syrup won't stop...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, sick,
Form: Rhyme
She's Sick
Don't worry child But worry you do Don't hurry child What's through is through Don't cry child For what you once knew She's sick, she's sick, She's sick of you She's sick, she's sick, But it's no flu She's sick, she's sick, She's sick of you She's...Read the rest...
Categories: sick, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member flu like symptoms
yesterday I had flu-like symptoms let the aches and pains consume me slid into the misery with gusto laid away the day in a recliner sometimes alternating to the couch I was not human, I was a sickly whickly feeling sorry...Read the rest...
Categories: sick,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snuggles My Cat
"I will send them without wings so that no one suspects they are angels”. ...Read the rest...
Categories: cat, sick,
Form: Triolet

Specific Types of Sick Poems

Definition | What is Sick in Poetry?


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