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Best Poems Written by Sidney Carneiro

Below are the all-time best Sidney Carneiro poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Last Breath

the last breath
shouts in a whisper
the message is clear

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Seabed

below the billows
listen to the siren’s song
place your fears to bed

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I WRITE

if I am unwell
bring me parchment where I lie
if I do not answer
put a quill in my hand
my lines will speak for me
the ink will form the thoughts
from emotions that fill my head
I beg you decipher the strokes
that I attempt to write simply
but if the markings seem like riddles
make sense of the whole
by embracing the abstract you see
the patterns and rhythm will reveal
a  portrait of my naked self

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Radiation Waiting Room

Radiation lobby,
filled with unspoken sense.
I see a community of fighters and partners.
The partners are
the curious who know.
They sit using books as blinders,
or sitting watching others.
They are family waiting.

The fighters are strugglers,
arriving with smiles or stone faces.
They are:
slow walkers
fast walkers
chair riders
cane holders,
or with chemo caps,
or cancer wigs.

Travelers
funneling through a journey of hope.
Given by greeters and nurses.
Cancers lessen
by treatment with
radium and cobalt sessions.

And then a bell rings,
for someone, 
radiation is ending.
Now there is a light around you,
and you are free.
Still, we think of new others,
a cycle continues
with new faces same faces,
until cancer fades,
with no traces.

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AGE

faded oil portraits
in gold patina frames
hide on gallery walls

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Clouds

frozen I stand
searching for design
in the clouds 
skudding past
I raise my hand 
and point

to a straggler

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Characters

who are the characters in my dreams?
I see different faces
they are me
saying things
making choices
surprising me with my own thoughts
I argue with myself 
I agree with myself
in a crowd of myselfs
and when I wake
I am made whole again

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SOUP

here is
my own recipe
letters simmering 
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poem solved

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Remember

life through lantern glass
I catch a glimpse of old stories
while the glow is strong

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I Am

don’t make fun of me,
I’m only a foppotee,
with a flair for art