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Sickle Cell
Sickle Cell Poems - Poems about Sickle Cell
The Silence of Yesterday
...for abunic sheriff – a friend who battled sickle cell. yesterday the bones in my friend’s body wrote me a note of grief saying that they were tired of living. even the smile my friend wore on t......
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Edwin Olu Bestman
Categories:
sickle cell,
death, deep, for him,
Form:
Elegy
Invocation
...May these words upon my breast seek to help and heal and deliver for these times we may shiver at tricks the evil lay at our feet in our minds on our street that we may fall but for the call of ......
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Karen Jones
Categories:
sickle cell,
bereavement, child, christian, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
Melancholy and Joy
...I. Melancholy and joy, like oil and water, do not combine (like water in a bath of acid). The twain never do meet in a single psyche, a single soul, a single mind, II. or in ......
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Ngoc Nguyen
Categories:
sickle cell,
depression, emotions, heaven, joy,
Form:
Free verse
Superhero Ii
...You returned sooner than we expected and you were never sluggish Same Mike we knew but these episodes kept happening I remember one day you told us strongly that you were going to be fine You said......
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Prince Henry Nibenang
Categories:
sickle cell,
africa, allusion, death, family,
Form:
ABC
Superhero I
...We had dreams of being who we wanted to be I still remember we playing around the backyard and riding bikes Imitating our various superheroes and everything seemed possible Strong and happy we we......
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Prince Henry Nibenang
Categories:
sickle cell,
africa, allusion, death, fear,
Form:
ABC
Runaway Child
...When she hurts me I hide it inside Secretly feeling like I've died 17 years I been there How could Tony ever compare Hospital after hospital Sickle cell crisis Real life emergencies Never onc......
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Deshanta Hawkins
Categories:
sickle cell,
absence, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
I do not know?
Red Blood
...Blood is red for vibrant, Beating and in time, Rhythmical with vitality, Resounding in spark and shine. Zestfulness depends on your blood, Having it and living by its pump, With transpor......
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Dominique Webb
Categories:
sickle cell,
body, color, god, health,
Form:
Rhyme
Water Is Life
...WATER IS LIFE People ignore me because of my simple nature If you ask me, I would not hesitate to say; When the creator takes, I take, however, every other thing comes after me. As a liquid, so color......
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Nnachetam Stanislaus
Categories:
sickle cell,
life, men, kiss, men,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Homonym
...Don’t you agree with my ability to loosen up on our times in no night ? A river thing was flowing through foliaged silence. In deranged hour of the neck tie, you throw up obscenity on road. What ? ......
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Satish Verma
Categories:
sickle cell,
art, night, night,
Form:
ABC
Abiku Speaks
...Abiku speaks..... sickle cell patient Let me go, for I’m in pains COS I’m guilty not, In this case. COS all these, are your own faults. Am not as wicked as you think, for I also Wish......
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Adelaja Olayiwola
Categories:
sickle cell,
health,
Form:
Burlesque
The Lost Cross of Chaoss
...The Lost Cross of Chaoss (acrostic) Tomorrow turns too yesterday How fast it can appear Everything you borrowed Left without a tear Office of a coffin Society’s sickle cell Taxes for the or......
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Jeremy Siedlecki
Categories:
sickle cell,
religionme,
Form:
Rhyme
Who's Next?
...The thunderous thunder Came thundering in a turmoiled town Timing my timeless time, June, you played a fowl gain You can’t spare us even for once That we may eat the fruit of our labou......
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Ameh Comrade Godwin
Categories:
sickle cell,
confusionmay,
Form:
Lay
Sickle Cell Bulimia
...I was in a hurry To weight only forty Had no time for a drawn out diet So decided I would try it Bought a sickle Carved off my flesh It didn't tickle, But the blood was fresh Got on the sc......
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Tom Bell
Categories:
sickle cell,
adventure, fantasy, funny, health,
Form:
Burlesque