Poems About Health and Sickness for Free
by Nicholas Gordon
Poems about health and sickness, poetry about health and sickness, free for any personal or non-commercial purpose. All poems: copyright by Nicholas Gordon.
- After the Virus (COVID-19 Pandemic)
- AIDS Is a Preventable Disease
- Anne (Autism)
- As My Debt Grows, So My Love Does, Too (Depression)
- As Though I Were Just Flowing, Flowing (Alzheimer's)
- Aunt Louise (Mental Illness)
- Breanna (Rhett Syndrome)
- Cherrie (Organ Donation)
- Debbie (Organ Donation)
- Diabetes Tells Us We're Machines
- Death Rides with Us on Our Ecstasy
- Eighty-Eight
- Fractures Rarely Heal Right on Their Own
- Give Your Pain a Bit of Gratitude (Get Well)
- Given the Fragility of Life (Get Well)
- Grace Comes with a Patina of Pain (Get Well)
- Hallelujah! I'm Pregnant! Praise the Lord! (Artificial Insemination)
- I Want to Live (Multiple Sclerosis)
- I Wear My Mask for You (COVID-19 Pandemic)
- I Pray for You and Wish I Could Do More
- Lately I've Been Having Vivid Dreams
- Let Others Speak of Hell -- I Speak of Courage
- Mental Illness Doesn't Touch the Soul
- O Lord, Help Me Be a Burden
- Perhaps You Think that, Yes, You Are an Island (COVID-19 Pandemic)
- So May a Tiny, Clever Enemy
- Some Find It Quite Sufficient to Endure
- Some Find Their Identity in Courage
- Sorrow May the Heart Sometimes Deface (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
- Sorrow May the Heart Sometimes Deface (2) (Spinal Muscular Atrophy)
- Thank You for Having Faith in Me (Mania)
- Thank You for the Heart Your Loved One Gave Me
- The Cancer That Killed You Was Part of You Gone Quite Insane
- The Gift of Life Is Never More or Less (Terminal Illness)
- There's Beauty in the Barest Breath of Sunshine (Depression)
- Thirty-Eight Is Running for Her Life
- What Can I Do to Keep You from Despair
- When Life Becomes a Sea of Pain
- Your Legacy Must Be Both Love and Fear (Breast Cancer)
- ZZZoom (COVID-19 Pandemic)
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