Poems about Illness
#illness
Poems about illness, a collection of poetry dealing with physical illness, the affect on the sufferer and the lives of those close to them. Poems about illness includes poetry about cancer, life limiting injuries and terminal illnesses.
FeNyX
Poem Published
8th Oct 2024 7:24pm
8th Oct 2024 7:24pm
Torture
As I lay trying to fall into slumber
I note my throbbing hands in silence
In time with my beating heart
Searching the inner and outer worlds for peace
For that turnoff to slumber that refreshes
To rest easy
To calm oneself
To be renewed as I should ... supressed
Feeling the notion of rest slipping away into the aether
Replaced by numbness
Numb to time
Numb to pain
Numb to care
Uncomfortably Numb
Delusion replaces thoughtfulness
Derangement rashness
Am I dreaming?
I wish it so
Am I...
I note my throbbing hands in silence
In time with my beating heart
Searching the inner and outer worlds for peace
For that turnoff to slumber that refreshes
To rest easy
To calm oneself
To be renewed as I should ... supressed
Feeling the notion of rest slipping away into the aether
Replaced by numbness
Numb to time
Numb to pain
Numb to care
Uncomfortably Numb
Delusion replaces thoughtfulness
Derangement rashness
Am I dreaming?
I wish it so
Am I...
#illness
#love
#MentalHealth
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ThePalestRider
Poem Published
6th Oct 2024 9:05am
6th Oct 2024 9:05am
Taste of Blight
It touches first, a breath of dust
a bitter kiss on air
a taste that sinks beneath the skin
and lingers, unaware
The Blight, it moves with purpose slow
a poison bred in dark
it spreads like ink in veins of earth
a stain without a mark
It tastes of ash, of copper blood
of iron ground to rust
a weight that presses on the tongue
and turns all things to dust
It grows, it knows—beneath the taste
there’s something worse within
A hunger, vast and sentient
with rot beneath its grin
It whispers...
a bitter kiss on air
a taste that sinks beneath the skin
and lingers, unaware
The Blight, it moves with purpose slow
a poison bred in dark
it spreads like ink in veins of earth
a stain without a mark
It tastes of ash, of copper blood
of iron ground to rust
a weight that presses on the tongue
and turns all things to dust
It grows, it knows—beneath the taste
there’s something worse within
A hunger, vast and sentient
with rot beneath its grin
It whispers...
#dark
#death
#illness
111 reads
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dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
4th Oct 2024 00:38am
4th Oct 2024 00:38am
he says
couldn’t make it up the hill without
you holding my hand -
and it’s not about the state of my knees,
it’s about love ..
you holding my hand -
and it’s not about the state of my knees,
it’s about love ..
#wife
#aging
#illness #MentalHealth
#illness #MentalHealth
144 reads
6 Comments
ThePalestRider
Poem Published
2nd Oct 2024 9:13am
2nd Oct 2024 9:13am
Refraction of Broken Minds
Sanity's sewers and wells
There the fires do sweep
Walk with me in hell
Where madness goes to weep
Symmetry of perfections scars
Resplendence of the veil
A tapestry of angelic stars
Seek clarity beyond the pale
Dance on Armageddon's grave
Tendrils of a neural disease
Spit blood, rant, and rave
Of tumors eager to please
Pain of abstract cancers
Grasping the frail mind
Sea of infectious dancers
Insanity so easy to find ...
There the fires do sweep
Walk with me in hell
Where madness goes to weep
Symmetry of perfections scars
Resplendence of the veil
A tapestry of angelic stars
Seek clarity beyond the pale
Dance on Armageddon's grave
Tendrils of a neural disease
Spit blood, rant, and rave
Of tumors eager to please
Pain of abstract cancers
Grasping the frail mind
Sea of infectious dancers
Insanity so easy to find ...
#dark
#illness
#rhyming
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
26th Sep 2024 7:55pm
26th Sep 2024 7:55pm
Gacy
#dark
#evil
#illness
#murder
#nonfiction
99 reads
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down2dirt
Poem Published
26th Sep 2024 00:48am
26th Sep 2024 00:48am
homo unius libri
I found it on a dark ramble
down long halls of doors
listened thru but never opened
my one bare foot drug on marbled floors
a door opened, yet not by me
inside I twirled in curtain filtered sunlight
the only furniture in the middle of the room
and on it sat a most marvelous sight
it’s texture on fingertips felt devine
it’s square shape beautifully pleasing
a thick shell over thinner pieces puzzling
yet begging to be pulled was so teasing
fingers curled under I lifted the top
it swung open revealing hidden treasure
black on...
down long halls of doors
listened thru but never opened
my one bare foot drug on marbled floors
a door opened, yet not by me
inside I twirled in curtain filtered sunlight
the only furniture in the middle of the room
and on it sat a most marvelous sight
it’s texture on fingertips felt devine
it’s square shape beautifully pleasing
a thick shell over thinner pieces puzzling
yet begging to be pulled was so teasing
fingers curled under I lifted the top
it swung open revealing hidden treasure
black on...
#illness
#nightmares
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
25th Sep 2024 9:13pm
25th Sep 2024 9:13pm
How many chemicals can you pronounce that are in your foods?
Hey!
Ever read the ingredients in processed foods sold in the US? It's a laundry list of additives that you probably can't spell, let alone pronounce.
Look at that same item that's being sold in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, or any other Industrialized country on planet Earth. None of those long, complex words are nowhere to be found in their ingredients.
You may ask yourself, but why...
Well the reason is that the food industry has a very strong lobbying presence in the United States. A lot of times those voices are really heard, and they...
Ever read the ingredients in processed foods sold in the US? It's a laundry list of additives that you probably can't spell, let alone pronounce.
Look at that same item that's being sold in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, or any other Industrialized country on planet Earth. None of those long, complex words are nowhere to be found in their ingredients.
You may ask yourself, but why...
Well the reason is that the food industry has a very strong lobbying presence in the United States. A lot of times those voices are really heard, and they...
#corruption
#food
#greed
#illness
#MentalHealth
133 reads
4 Comments
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
25th Sep 2024 3:46am
25th Sep 2024 3:46am
surgery day snapshot
Nerves make me a weirdo
I don't know whether to laugh
or cry
so instead I space out so hard
the receptionist has to call my name twice
In pre op I can't decide what to do
so I daydream, listen to music
put on an erotic cowboy audiobook
and people watch
pretending not to think about
other people's sex lives
I want to be anywhere but here
never mind that I've been waiting
8 months for this surgery
If drown my thoughts in erotica
and inappropriate thoughts about
the secret sex lives of...
I don't know whether to laugh
or cry
so instead I space out so hard
the receptionist has to call my name twice
In pre op I can't decide what to do
so I daydream, listen to music
put on an erotic cowboy audiobook
and people watch
pretending not to think about
other people's sex lives
I want to be anywhere but here
never mind that I've been waiting
8 months for this surgery
If drown my thoughts in erotica
and inappropriate thoughts about
the secret sex lives of...
#healing
#illness
#loneliness
157 reads
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
24th Sep 2024 1:47pm
24th Sep 2024 1:47pm
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He was born to die
Trying to stay positive
He was told 4 months
Trying to stay positive
He was told 4 months
#death
#illness
#senryu
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Sappho
Poem Published
13th Sep 2024 9:18am
13th Sep 2024 9:18am
Metamorphoses
The transformation from a
Walking to a wheeling person
Opened the gate to a
Dark night of the soul
How I missed dancing
Playing volleyball
Riding my bike and
Roaming the woods!
Shame swallowed me
Self-pity drowned me in tears
Self-hatred got the best of me
Failure threw me into an abyss
Looking into the mirror
I saw a weak disabled body
Craving desperately my attention
Merciless I turned away
When I was at my lowest
An angel in the shape of a man
Stepped into my life and...
Walking to a wheeling person
Opened the gate to a
Dark night of the soul
How I missed dancing
Playing volleyball
Riding my bike and
Roaming the woods!
Shame swallowed me
Self-pity drowned me in tears
Self-hatred got the best of me
Failure threw me into an abyss
Looking into the mirror
I saw a weak disabled body
Craving desperately my attention
Merciless I turned away
When I was at my lowest
An angel in the shape of a man
Stepped into my life and...
#disability
#illness
#vulnerability
168 reads
8 Comments
missjem56
Poem Published
10th Sep 2024 1:00pm
10th Sep 2024 1:00pm
Bloody Aliens!
Was it a charm
not charming
nore charmed
That caused such harm
harming
definitely harmed
To my arm
not arming
feeling disarmed
Or a curse
or the verse
that made it worse
Or maybe
During an alien abduction
or an alien seduction
perhaps they placed me into suction
But never the less
My poor arm, is under...
not charming
nore charmed
That caused such harm
harming
definitely harmed
To my arm
not arming
feeling disarmed
Or a curse
or the verse
that made it worse
Or maybe
During an alien abduction
or an alien seduction
perhaps they placed me into suction
But never the less
My poor arm, is under...
#aliens
#funny
#illness #satirical
#illness #satirical
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
9th Sep 2024 8:21pm
9th Sep 2024 8:21pm
The Asylum, circa 1900
The people at the dreary hotel
Are either aged or unwell
The guests who chose to stay aloof
Lie wrapped in rugs upon the roof
A statue with a gas-lamp torch
Has toppled over on the porch
The way others wish to go
Have been obscured by drifted snow
Unknown objects falling from the air
The careful stroller better beware
It's known that the skating pond conceals
A family of enormous eels
Those who have escaped can die with dignity
Tortured, raped & beaten by the malignity
The monuments above the dead
Are too eroded...
Are either aged or unwell
The guests who chose to stay aloof
Lie wrapped in rugs upon the roof
A statue with a gas-lamp torch
Has toppled over on the porch
The way others wish to go
Have been obscured by drifted snow
Unknown objects falling from the air
The careful stroller better beware
It's known that the skating pond conceals
A family of enormous eels
Those who have escaped can die with dignity
Tortured, raped & beaten by the malignity
The monuments above the dead
Are too eroded...
#illness
#MentalHealth
#rhyming
#SelfHarm
#ShortStory
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