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Terminally Poems - Poems about Terminally

From default yes to designed no
...O to live life in relentless outreach And still stay put, stagnant, nowhere to reach, To struggle hard, getting not so in hand, To feign busy as if a butterfly, Or a productive bee nevertheless, ......

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Categories: terminally, life,
Form: Blank verse
Hospice
...He blinks in and out in a wingchair, overhears what visitors say when patients can be talked about as if not there. People speak well of the dying, even of dying strangers, to him their word......

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Categories: terminally, poetry,
Form: Free verse



The Confessions of a Tormented Soul
...I poison myself to endure the torments of my clairvoyant mind, A journey littered with catastrophes and irreversible scars. I chase nightmares I will find in hell, My face drowned in the fleeting ......

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Categories: terminally, black love,
Form: Free verse
9 reasons well mine
... Why should we hire you? I guarantee this is the only conversation we will have while I work here Why did you leave your last job? The tried to make we ask an 95 year old if she needed i......

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Categories: terminally, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SLOW DANCE
...This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital. It was sent by a medical doctor. Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain slap......

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Categories: terminally, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If It Wasn't For Poetry
... Things that I alone see would remain unseen by others. Things that move or touch me alone, none other would bother. Clouds with color and form, are not just a repository of water, but demand m......

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Categories: terminally, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hidden In Plain Sight Virtually Unable 2 See
...Surely it is virtually impossible To hide and disguise In plain sight Of curious mind eyes The quite patently blatantly obvious Unless that is of course Those they who are Looki......

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Categories: terminally, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reserve In Thee
...Love is not always reciprocated Seeming some hearts terminally constipated – unable to relieve themselves and others, to make lighter many burdens, the long suffering of less fortunat......

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Categories: terminally, bible, character, christian, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Karen's Brother
...Sky blue eyes looking past the bounty of pork rinds past boundless skylines stare blankly for way too long then to the menu cradled in his plastic hands. Plant-based food options required b......

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Categories: terminally, conflict, food,
Form: Choka
Premium Member A Terrace Full of Flowers For Our Anniversary
...Oh! No. I won’t wait until you’re seriously terminally sick Or to expire in order to send you bouquets of ritzy flowers Today is indeed the time, the hour to stand above the big brick To show my l......

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Categories: terminally, anniversary, beauty, birthday, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bones Ache Yet Heart Sings
...A revolving door of visiting friends Old and new, at the hospital, day by day. Stalked by death's brooding shadow; Cancer-stricken and terminally ill,...

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Categories: terminally, death, devotion, family, husband,
Form: Narrative
Struggles of a Teen
..."You have it easy," is what they always say. "Are you starving and not breathing," they ask. "You have no right to complain," they mock. Then why does my life feel like I've been living in vai......

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Categories: terminally, age, anger, depression, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Knowing the Answer Even Before Asking the Question
...My heart is beating so fast I can not say for sure If it may not at any moment go into cardiac arrest and explode out my chest cavity And my hands are so sweaty its like they are rainin......

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Categories: terminally, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Abandoned Boarded
...I'm taking a leap with my both feet Without no shoe's to spare my soul's And if I land on unkempt ground I am bound to find I am barely able to walk let alone manage baby steps or stand er......

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Categories: terminally, courage,
Form: Free verse
111 Months
...You were diagnosed with Leukemia and sadly, you didn't survive. If you hadn't died 111 months ago, today you would've turned 75. You were born on October the 18th of 1947. But 111 months ago, you ......

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Categories: terminally, birthday, cancer, dad, death,
Form: Rhyme

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