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Best Disease Poems

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Premium Member Racism: Humanity's Deadliest Social Disease
The other day
you asked me my friend, who I am
I replied:
I am you in another body!

Yes, it is true
look, how much alike we are,
no matter...

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Categories: disease, humanity, love, peace, racism,
Form: Free verse
Their Chosen Disease
I watch a sunset 
that I'd love to share 
and nobody sees it but me 
   
I'm scratching my head 
in utter amazement...

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Categories: disease, lost, sick, slavery, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The disease called shy
You have my voice that sings
My eye’s that love to see
My heart beating when it believes
My hand writing poetry of what should be
My steps walking...

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Categories: disease, allegory, angst, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Poetry Disease
-Infected- with *PSD

My luck is tough, 
My life has been rough,
I cannot feel my dreams,
I dream of dreams, that can't be felt.

In the deep corners...

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Categories: disease, abuse, addiction, adventure, celebration,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Dull As a Disease-Win
Dull As A Disease

I am sitting in my Dorchester lair,
Behind the door I do feel your mien,
When my poetic muse is in apt flair
You look...

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Categories: disease, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Alzhimer's Disease
Son, my mind is now full of holes
So I moved the memories to my heart
Locked them here and lost the key
To treasure them before they...

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Categories: disease, angst, confusion, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rainbow Sherbet and Dying Poems
I never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out 
The Sherbet ice cream

It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting...

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Categories: disease, bereavement, best friend, cancer,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Leave It To Beaver: the Last Episode
Beaverish, feverish
hot Mrs. Cleaver wished
that her affair had not
given her clap. 

Fast Eddie Haskell, her
boy-toy, that rascal, his 
transmissibility
claims were all crap.

“Tickle me, pickle me,
say...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: disease, family, humorous,
Form: Double Dactyl
Premium Member A Growing Hope
Violent as the gleaming blade
Of a vicious criminal crazed
Ferocious as the lion’s jaw
Lingering on an innocent calf
This wicked affliction forces
Its teeth into the harmless heart
Bites...

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Categories: disease, angst, cancer, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Caregiver Misery
Note:  Sundowning – Most commonly in Alzheimer and Dementia patients, Sundowning, is changes in behavior that get worse in late afternoon, evening and can...

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Categories: disease, caregiving, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Covidia
She came from nowhere, mouse-like quiet
At first we thought it’s just a trick
But soon her powers were dark like night
We saw her strength cut to...

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© Andy Chunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: disease, death, depression, endurance, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Goodbye: Upon the Death of Sibling
Once, I’d stood beside a man
Who, with heart and soul o’erwrought, 
Silently searched for answers, but answers found him not. 
His sister recently had passed...

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Categories: disease, angst, brother, cancer, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Neglect
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch

What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting...

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Categories: disease, baby, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Invisible Enemy
driving to work is a regular part of the day for her,
but the specialised hospital is too far -
twenty-five days, exactly at nine!
the best option...

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Categories: disease, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Riding the Subway For Twenty-Five Days
To me, it was a revealing experience…
                That I could...

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Categories: disease, daughter, life, strength,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things