Poems about Illness

• Lisa

  by seanmcclain1 21 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 19 2:59 AM. In Abuse, Pain, Sadness, Depression, Illness, Death, Suicide
• Neurofibrillary Tangle

  by kiwibird 55 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 7 2:39 PM. In Personal, Sad, Death, Illness
• How it Began

  by prolixin 81 lines, on Oct 29 7:13 AM. In Pain, Personal, illness
• Your Blood and Me, I Bind

  A Poem about my struggle with Lyme Disease

  by Toboein 50 lines, on Oct 27 6:39 PM. In Pain, Illness, Disease, Frustration, Sad, Life, Hope
• Light Becomes Dark

  by JeannieD Hunter 21 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 20 1:07 PM. In Personal, Sad, Thoughts, Life, Illness, noguest
• we laughed today

  Today, we woke to a world of bright smiles
  and good moods. Of painless movement and

  by Symphony 19 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 16 8:08 AM. In personal, pain, thoughts, life, cancer, illness
• Shame

  If life were a currency
  I would choose to live in

  by LesbianOfLove 27 lines, on Oct 8 5:10 PM. In Shame, Life, Death, Suicide, Living, Currancy, Spirit, Soul, Illness, Fair, God
• tell me a secret... [letter]

  Sister, come closer....
  

  by Symphony 17 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 30 9:56 AM. In personal, family, pain, sad, illness, darkness
• a different kind of free...

  You know, I always imagined freedom as
  horses running wild through the wilderness,

  by Symphony 21 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 24 6:29 AM. In pain, personal, cancer, illness, family, love, society
• What Breaks Your Heart

  What breaks your heart is ...
  

  by Symphony 24 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 24 6:22 AM. In personal, pain, family, cancer, sad, society, illness, hospital, heartbreak, love
• All Because of This...

  All because of this, my life has changed beyond recognition.
  I'm no longer that person whom I once was;

  by Symphony 19 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 24 6:11 AM. In family, love, struggling, pain, society, cancer, illness
• prompt; trust

  Trust? She has no choice. Her life hangs in the hands of bustling white shoes
  and blue pants. In the creases of un-ironed yet crisp white shirts and cheery

  by Symphony 14 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 22 6:34 PM. In cancer, illness, pain, nurse, hospital, life
• Survivor... Not a Victim...

  She falls before our very eyes; bruised from the knockings of life.
  New indigo markings lick hungrily at her flesh; spreading greedily

  by Symphony 20 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 22 6:02 PM. In cancer, illness, pain
• One More Day.. X

  Competition Entry - Just to See You Smile.

  by Graciee 23 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 20 12:55 PM. In loved ones, miss you, love, leave, illness
• girl who flew to the moon

  She's that famous chick, whose face you always see
  whenever you hear 'em talking 'bout this misery.

  by Symphony 31 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 15 8:33 AM. In pain, illness, cancer, death, grieving, let go
• Time Left to Dance

  I danced through life with no worries,
  For the future, I had no fears,

  by mgmc 18 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 11 1:50 PM. In Life, Illness, Spirituality
• Life in the Land of the Dead

  Life in the Land of the Dead
  

  by prolixin 93 lines, on Sep 8 4:29 AM. In psychosis, illness, sad
• The Party

  by prolixin 79 lines, on Sep 8 4:21 AM. In illness, sad
• Families Torn by Drugs

  We pray, O God of hope, and salvation
  for all families

  by Mothers hands 20 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 22 3:43 PM. In prayer, drugs, families, alcohol, tormented, illness, torturous, compassion, completeness
• diabulimia.

  what do i do when i see my reflection?
  i tell myself i will not take my injection.

  by missunderstood-0 12 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 19 9:00 AM. In diabulimia, injections, health, pain, skinny, sad, personal, insulin, life, illness
• Migraine

  Black. That is how I feel the world is when I'm in state of disablement. Migraine dibilitates me to the extent of uselessness, painful and

  by davelolione 19 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 6 2:26 AM. In Pain, Dark, Other, Personal, Illness
• Catching Cold

  Chill gusts in summer
  unseasonal turbulence driving

  by Seasinger 17 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 28 8:37 AM. In Contest, Life, Illness
• Ocd!

  She saw the prompt and had to tell you, what washing her hands means to her. She first noticed at the age of 13, that her hands felt dirty, she had been to a fancy dress party, and had worn a feather boa, throughout the day,

  by Aspie-Sanity 16 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 23 8:02 AM. In ocd, wash, hands, illness, obsessive
• Letting Go

  I wrote this about the recent passing of my mother, Annette. She was a rock, kind and
  loving, my confidant and best friend - a Godly woma

  by BrownEyedGirl575 96 lines, on Jul 19 1:59 PM. In Sadness, Death, Illness, Disease, Dying, Thoughts, Deep, Angst, Depression, Personal
• Room With a View

  She sits alone
  this quiet room

  by BrownEyedGirl575 60 lines, on Jul 16 12:44 PM. In Angst, Pain, Sad, Society, Thoughts, Life, Depression, Illness
• Mystery Illness

  by sanctuary WHiTE 80 lines, on Jul 7 1:44 PM. In Adult, Pain, Personal, Sad, Illness, Mystery, Insanity, Life, Abandon, Doctors
• Within Crust ( HM )

  He lives beneath my layers
  spree upon foundations,

  by Reptile Lady 10 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 17 12:21 AM. In Illness, Family
• Kawasaki Disease

  by Lavender Butterfly 33 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 16 9:01 PM. In Sad, Illness
• I Do Think Before I Speak

  Every time I go to speak, my heart feels nervous,
  I twitch and tweak

  by danny143 18 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 16 6:08 PM. In PERSONAL, ILLNESS, SELF CONTROL
• I'm Not Sick

  Don't say I'm ill, I'm really not
  But...what is your name?

  by XxNinjaNemoxX 16 lines, 14 comments, on May 17 6:04 AM. In life, illness, contest
• ill - Senryu

  by dutch2lips 12 lines, 3 comments, on May 1 8:15 PM. In Senryu, Contest, Illness
• Fit for Travel

  The day I had a fit
  my driving licence was taken away.

  by Phelpsy20 35 lines, on Apr 28 9:59 AM. In Life, Illness, Epilepsy
• My Yellow Cardboard Car

  Here my feet rap at soil and grovel in defeat, an unconventional conversation of conflicting beats.

  by La Quiete 14 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 19 9:56 PM. In abuse, unusual, bizarre, sickness, illness, depression, life, emotive, abandonment
• The Doctor's Plea...

  by Celticpoet 13 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 2 9:26 PM. In Life, Nature, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts, Death, Illness
• Beyond My Reach

  What dangles mostly out beyond my reach
  The normal things that used to mean so much

  by BearWoman 16 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 29 11:16 PM. In Limitation, Illness, Disability, Sonnet, Italian Sonnet
• My pain.

  I feel as if I can no longer carry on.
  This feeling of razorblades flowing..

  by RebeccaDawn 22 lines, on Mar 28 4:56 PM. In Pain, Agony, Illness
• Carefree reminiscence

  I remember I saw her
  a sturdy grey haired

  by anaisnais 31 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 16 9:49 AM. In poetry, writing, anaisnais, insanity, delirium, sadness, illness, thoughts, weird, life
• Body of Seven

  I.
  I should have taken it as an omen

  by KissGravity 45 lines, on Mar 11 4:27 PM. In Love, Personal, Life, Sad, Weird, Contemporary, Freewrite, Abstract, illness
• Tainted Thirst

  Dry.
  An incredible thirst from my stomach to

  by English.Muffin 55 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 6 2:32 PM. In illness, hyper, sugar, diabetes, mental, ill
• When I was Mad

  by Bruce 16 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 30 9:16 PM 2008. In Adult, Self, Illness
• bi-poler they say

  he has bi-poler i herd them say
  confusion racing through my mind

  by shibby shivs 23 lines, on Dec 19 6:12 PM 2008. In illness, emotion, thoughts, pain, weird, sad, other
• Dying a Lonely Woman [Endings]

  ''Perishing alone, no one else home,
  Been alone for far too long''

  by go away. 9 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 12 1:08 PM 2008. In Life, Pain, Personal, Sad, Spiritual, Thoughts, Cancer, Illness, Weird
• Formerly Known As Myself

  If you knew me before
  Before the Marine Corps

  by cliffburton62 23 lines, on Dec 9 6:10 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Schizophrenia, Crazy, Life, Schizo, Mental, Illness, Mental Illness
• The Naked Truth

  only a selected few told…
  

  by Rebekah-Ann 24 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 8 7:50 AM 2008. In Life, Illness, Sad
• Wounded

  immobilized, flattened down,
  unable even to pace:

  by intoothandclaw 2 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 9 6:32 PM 2008. In Pain, Contest, Hospital, Illness, Injury
• South Dakota

  The last time we drove through South Dakota
  I was 5, you 13

  by vampedvixen 22 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 28 3:39 PM 2008. In death, illness, childhood, sadness, siblings
• Hi! My Name Is: My Disease

  Did he have to be identified
  As his illness?

  by EmeraldOblivion 39 lines, on Sep 23 9:03 PM 2008. In Life, Love, Sad, Spiritual, Thoughts, Friends, Death, Illness
• Information on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  Here is some helpful information about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, also known as OCD.

  by HugsForEveryone 28 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 19 5:54 PM 2008. In Personal, Informational, OCD, Illness, Disability
• Borderline, One In Twenty

  No vomit, no cough, no ache

  by Watermark 38 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 13 3:47 AM 2008. In Life, Illness, Acceptance, Reality
• Once Upon a Time: The Battle of Life and Death

  I have felt Death calling my name -
  From the damp warmth of ceasing

  by Paloszoo 25 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 29 11:55 AM 2008. In Inspirational, death, illness, baby

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