This poem is a migraine poem. I wrote it with a migraine about migraine onset. Shattered Blue, black, and red stars dance behind the
Category: poetry
Poem: Vertigo
This poem is presented to you by vertigo:
Name by any other name #MHAM #MHAMSMC
How does naming your attacks help you cope, or does it help? I don’t really name my migraines. I call them ‘brutal’, ‘intense’ or ‘killer’.
Poem: Time
Time Lost days, melded into decades. Concentration, focus slid away. Memories erode and it all fades, Locked in infinite pain, time’s prey.
Poem: I tried
So I had a horrible migraine stretch and I tried everything I could to temper the migraine. Nada. Nothing worked. I tried it again. And
Can you see?
This poem Can you see? was written in a time when I had an indifferent doctor and an employer who say me as, essentially, a
Poem: Madness
A poem I wrote after my first suicide attempt. Keep in mind I refer to madness as the fact we are expected to endure and
Poem for pain awareness month
This poem is something I wrote a few years ago for a migraine poetry contest. I have posted it again because the poem is about
Poem: In the Midnight Hour
A fellow fibromyalgia member sent me this poem. It rings so true to our experiences and it is a wonderful piece. So much so
Poem: 365
365 365 days one year 365 days to persevere 365 unshed tears Pain corrodes and interferes 365 migraine days 365 days pain crazed 365 in
Poem: Functional
Functional Functional Put on a mask. Smile. Blend in. But different under the skin. Writhing, seething, beast of pain within. Adjust the mask. Smile. Functional.
Poem: I dreamed
I have not written a poem in quite some time. I blame it on the depression to be honest. High pain and depression sort
#Poem: Ride the Night
In seeps the night In creeps the darkness Where I triumph in day, It cannot stay, not today In seeps the night In creeps the
Poem: Window to the Soul
My most recent chronic illness inspired poem. Window to the Soul Beneath this wall A pit of suffering Hidden from all, Blinding and writhing
