Fibromyalgia 2
...Fatigue
Insecurity
Brain fog
Restless legs
Odour sensitivity
Mouth ulcers
Years of pain
Agoraphobia
Low blood pressure
Generalised anxiety disorder
Infertility
Allergies...
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Categories:
ulcers, pain,
Form: Free verse
Airs
...The air can be relatively silent
or noiseful wind – sort of like,
flatulence – both blessing and
curse~ depending on where and
when. The who, more often, not
forthright.
Do...
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Categories:
ulcers, christian, god, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Bone In Her Back
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Oh, how we are poisoned!
The Yonega, the Wasichu,
a new creature,
different from us in more than just their
white skin and sunflower hair.
How did such a people come
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Categories:
ulcers, america, conflict, culture, history,
Form: Free verse
Speak by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a poem for our time
...Speak!
by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Speak, while your lips are still free.
Speak, while your tongue remains yours.
Speak, while you're still standing...
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Categories:
ulcers, dark, father, fear, sea,
Form: Rhyme
John's Visit: Ephemera theme
...Edit on line 7
There he was – my first boyfriend ever -
leaning against the sports car of a friend who drove him
over to my town to see me before I left for college
even though we had broken up...
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Categories:
ulcers, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Wyre
...Going home
across the Shard bridge
spanning a rattle-snaked river
that bites into the Irish sea
cold-bloodedly pumping
into Fleetwood's gaping fish-mouth.
Here birthmarks
are branded wit...
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Categories:
ulcers, nature,
Form: Free verse
Near-Death Experience
...NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
Imagine open heart surgery,
imagine no blood used.
Triple bypass, just beginning,
blood later … still refused.
Previous surgeries had several,
but this one was near de...
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Categories:
ulcers, endurance, health, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Not So Dear
...Dear exam
Sincerely I don’t hate you, I just don’t like you
To be fair, I don’t think anybody does
You issue countless threats in the name of tests
A series of poison in carefully measured dosage...
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Categories:
ulcers, education, irony, student,
Form: Free verse
Black Tantrum
...Something yond is sore to proveth,
judging those who is't disagreeth,
hurst nay hast peat swamp.
People breath their owneth blood,
Ulcers replaceth green air?
Benumbed lungs and panshard dea...
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Categories:
ulcers, blue, pain, sad,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
A Pinch of Salt Just Will Not Do
...A pinch of salt or even two
never enough, just will not do
But let it rain down, pour it on in
you'll get ulcers faster than with Mr. Clean
The sweet spot's somewhere in between ~
sodi...
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Categories:
ulcers, rain, science, science fiction,
Form: Couplet
Much A-Do
...We cannot worry over-much,
'Bout things we can't control.
Too much worry disrupts life,
And at length rots the soul.
Worrying 'bout this and that,
Can spoil your whole demeanor,
Causing you t...
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Categories:
ulcers, inspiration,
Form: Quatrain
Bunny Rabbits
...Giggling chuckling and guffawing
Like a bunny start each day hopping
Watch for hunters
They'll give you ulcers
It's the only way to start your day...
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Categories:
ulcers, animal,
Form: Limerick
Listen
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People never seem to listen to what i have to say
Just brush it off their shoulder interrupting all the way
In a disagreement everyone is guilty of pride
You say what you have to s...
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Categories:
ulcers, anger, anxiety, conflict, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Lemon Bars Like Shining Stars
...Lemon Bars Like Shining Stars
Remember when we would eat lemon bars;
Had ended up with ulcers and many scars;
With haste,
Would taste;
In space they would look like shining stars.
Jim Horn...
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Categories:
ulcers, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Angels Danced
...“On the day that you were born, the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true, so they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue.” - Fr...
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Categories:
ulcers, inspirational love,
Form: Haibun
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