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Sick At Heart Poems - Poems about Sick At Heart

Premium MemberThe Sick Child-Edvard Munch

...THE SICK CHILD-EDVARD MUNCH

Ghostly downpour upon not the sick,
but the sick at heart - a child’s mother.
Bittersweet tangle of red - patient’s hair,
dresser, caretaker’s hands. Bedside
manner...
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Categories: sick at heart, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberWhere Hides God

...When life seems an arduous desert trek
When black blizzards sweep past us
When our gullets stick like plastic with no moisture
It is then we look for God- our oasis
We wonder where he is ...
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Categories: sick at heart, best friend, god, light,
Form: Free verse



Dispossessed

...DISPOSSESSED 

Running,
Running…
We are always running, 
running again. 

I clutch my son’s small hand, 
his fingernails drive into my palm.
Running, Running again, 
and the cold is catchin...
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Categories: sick at heart, fear, heartbreak, loss,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHonor God

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Honor God
Written By Miracle Man
August 28, 2021

Conquering fear,
I accomplish through faith,
Environment can determine the path we travel,
and where we are, often determines, who w...
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Categories: sick at heart, america, christian, god, life,
Form: Free verse

Searching For Love

...For love my heart hunts,
From the ground up to the sky.
At night I sleep alone.
My aching heart asks "Why?"

I search the land.
I search the sea.
I look to the night sky
So the stars can hear...
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Categories: sick at heart, love, romance, romantic love,
Form: Ballad



On Looking At Schiller's Skull Translation Goethe

...ON LOOKING AT SCHILLER’S SKULL
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Here in this charnel-house full of bleaching bones,
like yesteryear’s
fading s...
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Categories: sick at heart, best friend, body, death,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Poem In Green

...It’s seen things the likes of which you’ve never seen
It’s been places to which you have never been
A dancing shadow to swift to ever glean
The poem in green

It was born on Friday thirteen
Gre...
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Categories: sick at heart, allusion, color, green, obituary,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCapitalism Unchecked

...You wear virtue on your sleeve
But you often wear nothing at all
Showing scars of thousands of years
When corrupt leaders beat you
But they could never kill you
So you survived the centuries
Yo...
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Categories: sick at heart, america, anger, political,
Form: Free verse

An Everlasting Gift

...I read in solitude, I found peace.
I read with love, I felt exulted.
I read when I was lonely, I got a companion.
I read when I felt sick at heart, I embraced ecstasy. 

I read histories and spo...
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Categories: sick at heart, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Set Me Free and Cry No More

...When i come to the end of the road,
And the sun has set for me
I want no rites in the gloom filled in the room,
Why cry for a soul set free?
I went not by choice but it was time
Time for you to ...
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Categories: sick at heart, art, beautiful, brother,
Form: Epic

Broken Heart But Joyful Soul

...I groan in misery and I am sick at heart
Look at me!
Has anyone ever had pain like mine? 
Has anyone ever suffered like me? 
All because of love
All because he fathers my son
My eyes are overfl...
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Categories: sick at heart, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: ABC

A-Muse-In-Joy

...Life is most certainly like a game!
  You start with all the pieces.. genetics, soul, and name.

   “What’s in a name, that which we call a   
  rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.”
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Categories: sick at heart, angel, cancer, death of
Form: Couplet

A Bowl of Poetry Soup

...Passed down through generations I hold a gift of soup poetry,
it doesn’t matter if it’s hot or cold, as long as it comes in rhyme,
free verse is also tasty when I add a good analogy,
a...
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Categories: sick at heart, poetry, silly,
Form: Rhyme

The Beauty of Holiness

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The most beautiful thing
in this world to me,
is to see someone living holy

The way they talk,
the way they walk
I love how they comport themself
Their meekness,
their gentle way
T...
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Categories: sick at heart, christian, love, religious, spiritual,
Form: Lyric

With Compassion

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A mother's tears
fall on the cheek of her sickly child's face
Her breast gives untasted milk
as he struggles for his life
But with compassion,
the mother presses on with a gentle nudge
Pus...
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Categories: sick at heart, death, love, mother, mother
Form: Free verse

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