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Varicose Poems - Poems about Varicose

Premium MemberBlue cheese and old pickles

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I shudder while peering at sepia photographs,
showing visits to my maiden Aunt Hilda’s house.
Even though I was very young
it was clear she didn’t tolerate children.
I was to be ‘Seen and not...
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Categories: varicose, childhood, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSwimming in Grief

...It is as if cloudy eyes forecast rain
And the darkest heartache
Bleeds grief like varicose veins
All blue and distorted with pain
Hope is aborted and sadness 
Is a black freight train of thought...
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Categories: varicose, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberPetals of Pain

...Turquoise tears stain my face
Like violet varicose veins 
Stains of sentimental sensuality
Wrapped in white fears and black feathers

For love has fuschia flown away
Ruining reverie’s red roses...
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Categories: varicose, angst, art, betrayal, black
Form: Free verse

FROMAGE BADINAGE

...FROMAGE BADINAGE

Some cheeses improve with age
But, in danger of being verbose 
Just serve me plain and mature
Yellow, without that thick rind
And tastier on the tongue, I find
Not fancy, wit...
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Categories: varicose, food,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIroning

...The afternoon sunlight filtered through her window drapes
revealing each age line molded to her face
alone in the dusky shadows working in her measured way
a basket of clothes at her feet

one b...
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Categories: varicose, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberSkip-It

...Ella was an old woman
Who wanted to learn to skip
She held tightly to the rope
So she would not lose her grip

Tossing the rope over her head
That's when everything went awry
Her face went ext...
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Categories: varicose, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Ecchymosis

...inflamed by its sputtering,
cavity muttering-
opened by oaken and metal frame fluttering,
lapsing from pavement and pierced into meat.

uttered uncomfortably, aortas ushering,
sizing in varicos...
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Categories: varicose, violence,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOf Sallow Pallor

...Trust is an oak tree with shallow roots.
so very treacherous in windy weather.
I feel as though I'm glued to the floor;
pinned like a moth to an insect display.

I wish to leave this horrible ev...
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Categories: varicose, age, dark, death, funeral,
Form: Imagism

I Wax Poetic As Lifeblood Imperceptibly Doth Wane

...I wax poetic as lifeblood imperceptibly doth wane

Mine body electric analogous 
to Google map pronounced 
with arteries and countless varicose vein
visible popping blood vessels  
leeches have...
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Categories: varicose, adventure, anxiety, body, character,
Form: Rhyme

Behold the Workings

...A spider thin calligraphy, a varicose script
upon the shallow sheen of mortality.

Are these the genetics of a divine act
arriving as green stems,
weeds and blooms all in a tangle?
A scratchy n...
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Categories: varicose, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Autumn Hope

...They stand erect on the hill side listening to a jubilant ceremony saturated in the wind and the lake side spilling waves of hope over amplified sound while the residue of life scampers all over the ...
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Categories: varicose, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, confidence,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCome To the Hairy Leg Ball

...Come old and young, come big, little, wild and tall
Come down to the Legion, join the Hairy Leg Ball
Bring your varicose veins, please do not stall
Bring your grossest. hairiest ugliest furriest l...
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Categories: varicose, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPlace of Respite

...Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes
and birds of the air have nests,
but the Son of Man has no place
to lay his head.”  Matthew 8:20 NIV

PLACE OF RESPITE

Cheek-tinge of pink daw...
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Categories: varicose, bird, christian, color, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Varicose

...You're so varicose vein,
Youth is gone again,
I suppose I'm still lucky,
I found my glasses, you see,
That's as good as it gets today,
Let's hear it for oldies, yah!...
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Categories: varicose, age, allusion, grandmother, humor,
Form: Free verse

Pensioners, Come Tomorrow

...What can it be if not ignited tension
Among retirees waiting for their pension
That weakly caters for their weekly ration
Their numerous legs, hundreds of suspension:
A carbon copy of the crimina...
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Categories: varicose, anger, fear, sympathy,
Form: Rhyme

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