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Poems About MS
Do you love writing Poems about MS? Is writing poetry the way you deal with the stress of living with multiple sclerosis? Does writing help you cope with the uncertainties, the symptoms, and the day to day unpredictability of MS?
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Well, we'd love to read your poems about living your life with MS. Even if you've written more than one, add them all. You can share each of them here by filling out the form below.
Be sure to tell your family and friends about them. They will be able to read and comment on them. Plus, they can even rate them!
You know that you are a great writer, now show the world what you've got to say - by adding your funny, or inspirational, or heartfelt, words here - well at least our little corner of it anyway! And even if this is your very first poem or your only poem about multiple sclerosis, go ahead and share it anyway.
Whatever you feel about living with MS is going to be read by someone who needs to hear your words. I believe we all have a book, or in this case, a poem, in us. One that will inspire someone, or help them to see things in a different way. Words that will help them deal with whatever they're going through at the moment.
As MSers, or people who love someone with MS, we have each other to lean on, and poetry - writing it, sharing it - is a wonderful way to show that we're all in this together. Your words may be the words that someone else is thinking of and unable to write them down. They don't have to be perfect, they just need to be meaningful to you and therefore meaningful to someone who's also dealing with multiple sclerosis.
So dust off your pen and notebook, get out your tablet or laptop, and think about the poems you wrote back in school. Think about your life now, how something you've overcome may be useful to your fellow MSers, and write them down. Any form will do, whether it's structured or free form, rhyming or not, it's okay. Edit it and share it with us. It may be therapeutic for you, as well.
If you still don't feel comfortable writing poetry, do you know someone who has MS and writes poems about their experiences? If so, send them a link to this page so that they can add their poems to this page, as well.
And if you do add your poetry here, don't forget to add a little about yourself when you add your poem. (And encourag your friends to do the same). We love learning about our visitors and who they are. You can add a picture of yourself or an image that illustrates your poem about MS.
Plus, we also have a page where you can share MS Artworks, so be sure and check that out, too.
We're waiting for your poems about ms : )
So what are you waiting for! Jump right in and show us your creative side! Write that poem or find one (or two, or three, or more) that you've written already. Polish 'em up and submit them. We can't wait to see what you have to offer.
And remember to let your family and friends know that you have a poem here so that they can come and comment, share, and otherwise brag that they know you.
Meanwhile, here are the links to each of the poems that have been written by other visitors who've submitted poetry on this page. You will find them below. There are links at the bottom of each poem to take you to more poems.
And don't forget, if you want an easier way to read them, you can get the Kindle books on Amazon. Book 3 is now out and number 4 will be compiled as soon as we have enough poems to a add another volume to the series. (If you add yours now, you'll be included in the next one!)
More Poems About MS
|Multiple Sclerosis|40th Anniversary|Double|Chronic|Lost Me|A Close Call|Lonely|Finally Diagnosed|Limboland|The Slaying|Time Matters|No Longer Benign|How Long|Stranger|Resistance|MS Means|What MS Means to Me|Just Because|
|My Body Betrays Me|Life Sentence|Like the Super Bowl Win|
Just What I Think|I Never Get a Break|Quick Sands|The Colors of MS|The MS Blues|I Will Win|MS Will Never Beat Me|I Will Win|Can't Take Me Away|Will Today Be The Day?|The Diagnosis|My MS Monkey|Multiple Sclerosis II|MS Carnation|
|I Am Stronger Then I Am|As a Small Child's Bird|Dear Neurosurgeon:|Just MSing Around|What MS Took|MS and Me|A Bad Dream|Deamons and Monsters|Falling|After the Fall|You Won't Let Go|Betrayed|MS Morning|Why?|Lorelei|The MS Boogieman Tree|
|Determined|The MS in Me|My Dance|Monster in Me|I Used To|At 4 AM|MS|Wasted|
Daily Battle|Enemies|"I Fall"|Thoughts of You|MS Will Never Beat ME!|She is Beautiful|My All|Awake at Two in the Morning|Dear Me|Funny MS|Balancing MS|Slight Decline|Remember|
Come Share Your Poems with us.
Do you write Poems about MS? Well now you can add them here! Poems that share your feelings about multiple sclerosis. Here's your chance to share with others your creative side.
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Remember 
I can't remember the last time I remembered to remember the thing I often forget.
I can't remember the last time I recaptured a story from my past and …
Slight Decline
Eyes fall from above,
Looks intended to show love.
Missed connections brought to light,
Body and brain continue to fight.
Look down, heart pound …
Balancing MS
The balancing act of life with no balance.
Adjusting to PPMS with tragic optimism.
Since being diagnosed, I have thought a lot about the duality …
Funny MS
When you have Multiple Sclerosis,
It is funny;
You are not allowed to cry,
Wipe those tears
Back of your eyes will hurt
Like you are getting blind …
Dear Me...
Dear Me, it’s been a long time since we spoke,you know, heart to heart. I miss you a bunch, I mean it so much. Such strangers we have become, where did …
Awake at Two in the Morning
At two in the morning, I lie awake in the quiet of the night.
A police car, siren blaring, whizzes by. Silence returns.
Thoughts tumble endlessly in …
My All
No one envisions waking up to the nightmare of not being able to see
Everything was fine yesterday so there's no way this could be
Then feelings of …
The MS in Me
The MS In Me:
My life is crazy with MS thinking it owns me. It is like a bad dream cause it cannot be seen for its invisibility. You cannot see this …
She is Beautiful
She is beautiful
She is beautiful,
My gentle, caring girl,
She comes out of her home,
And comes to sit next to me in my car,
Hat on, gloves …
A Short Walk
Basking in the sunlight,
watching people at Walnut Beach.
Children running here and there,
laughing, screaming, inventing games,
accusing each …
Phoenix
I wake in my coffin once again, time to die?
Knees can't bend, hands won't move, so tired.
Phoenix, Phoenix come to life and spread my wings to set …
Hate
I hate the words I'm, sorry, you, have, multiple and sclerosis.
I hate metal machines with loud banging and whirring that assault my hearing, already …
THE MS BOOGIEMAN TREE
I remember the days of my youth, when I climbed trees, as nimble as a cat. I purposely looked for the tallest, and the most impossible to climb.
I …
Why?
Why me?
What did I do so wrong to deserve this?
I made mistakes in the past but I tried to make up for them.
I try to be a good person.
I have overcome …
MS Morning
Alarm going off...
Yep hearing is working.
6:00 it says.....
Yep eyes are working.
Hit the off button....
Yep arms and hands are working.
Getting …
You Won’t Let Go
How am I supposed to move on, when you come and go like that?
How am I supposed to recover, when you leave a trace at every visit?
You come unannounced, …
After The Fall
After the fall,
My body shut down
In a wheelchair, I was bound.
I asked myself and everyone around me – why?
All my family could do in response was …
A Bad Dream
Having MS is like a bad dream
I’m losing the flight with MS
My life has changed
I’ve had to rearrange
Both the good and the bad
From nursing home …
MS and Me
MS and Me...
My life is crazy you see
as MS thinks it owns me.
This MonSter has tried to rob me of my sight,
but MS does not own me.
This MonSter …
What MS Took
MS Sometimes you're invisible. Do you not see that this is changing me. Are you even aware?
Well sorry MS has gotten control of me, but sorry right …
Dear Neurosurgeon:
I am sorry to disturb you
I have a simple question
I was wondering if you knew
the location of the button...
In just a short two weeks
I have to …
MS Carnation
Oh Beautiful Carnation
I heard just the other day
You've got MS within your stem
I wondered how though, as you look so very radiant
No one knows …
Multiple Sclerosis
MS
Multiple Sclerosis...
It is a common thief
In the stealing of one's ability to walk
Multiple Sclerosis...
It is an unruly tyrant
In its …
My MS Monkey
I've got a monkey on my back.
Not alcohol, no its not crack.
He stole everything and
I WANT IT BACK!
He first came like a thief in the night. …
Will Today Be the Day?
I find myself scared of what each day has in store.
While keeping this MonSter from always taking more.
I have so many questions, yet never enough words. …
THE MS BLUES
In Loving Memory of Carol Crane Hefterich, his Sister
Well...the MS took my sister round-'bout 1972
And it robbed her of her life, there …
My Body Betrays Me
My body betrays me
I have MS you see
From one day to the next
I wake up quite perplexed
Will this be a good day
To accomplish all that might come …
Multiple Sclerosis
For over forty years
I have been dueling
with a redoubtable opponent.
If I have maintained equilibrium,
it is through fancy footwork
and unwavering …
40th Anniversary of My Illness
Forty years of living
with a kleptomaniac
who steals by stealth
movement, agility, grace.
But that is not all:
the thief is now leaching …
Double
My disability accompanies me
everywhere; I have always to effect
a double introduction, explain:
there's two of us; were inseparable.
It's …
Chronic
Chronic
an illness of time
there's no escaping
time is for always
even a clocks unnecessary
if I read the sycamore tree
learn by heart …
Lost Me
Me, where have I gone?
Sadly, my life's been changed.
MS, is the diagnosis, Dr.'s say.
Yesterday, is now a distant memory.
Somehow, God's life …
A Close Call
A stranger tried to help me today
I was headed toward a chair
Mincing, labored, cloddy steps
Each with a prayer
She asked if I was alright
I obviously …
Lonely
I have a little window to the world
I see the people walk by, ride by,
Kids on bikes swerve in the street
I try to pretend I know what's there
…
Finally Diagnosed in Great Britain
My friend just got diagnosed
She's waited nigh 20 years
Her job depends on it
In that crazy system of hers
She's had an awful hassle
GP's just …
Limboland
Limboland
It's got to be they're missing something
My history is so clear to me
I have much of what every MS site lists
It should be clear …
The Slaying
The Slaying
At first it's every moment, waiting to see
The day MS has brought to me.
It's bated breath and quivering inside,
As I wait …
MS will NEVER beat me!
I may have down day’s
I may have low times,
I might also suffer some pain.
I might even shed a tear.
But I will not give in.
I refuse to …
Time Matters
I don't want to bike
in the mountains
I don't care
to tour New York City
I just want to be Me.
The Me I used to be
The one I know and cherish …
As I See It! Not rated yet
MS is SHIT
I fucking hate IT
I no longer WALK
Thank god I can TALK
It’s messed up my LIFE
I’m no longer a WIFE
Trapped in my HOUSE
I feel like …
Thoughts of you Not rated yet
How could I have thought
How could I've ever known
That when I first laid my eyes upon you
That my feelings would be so strong
Strong and what …
"I Fall" Not rated yet
I Fall
One neurologist said it's M.S.
A specialist said nope; it was when you were rear-ended.
It doesn't matter, though, does it?
Because I fall. …
Enemies Not rated yet
Enemies
We used to be allies
Now we are foes
It's not the way I wanted it
That's the way it goes
Why I ask
How could this be
When …
DAILY BATTLE Not rated yet
DAILY BATTLE!
However...
that is life.
Battles sorrows and small joys.
Hopes and expectations.
Everything for tomorrow's day.
Always for …
At Four A.M. Not rated yet
At four a.m., I lie awake; the world is still.
The body is stiff, won’t toss or turn, my mind churns.
Another day, legs still don’t work, hours to fill. …
I USED TO Not rated yet
I used to LOVE running.
Now I can barely walk.
I used to LOVE going for drives.
Now I have no license.
I used to LOVE reading.
Now I can barely see …
Monster In Me Not rated yet
There is a MonSter in me
That you cannot see
It just won't let me be.
This MonSters left many scars on my spine
When you look at me I seem to shine …
My Dance Not rated yet
Everyday is a new dance with my invisible partner MS.
Sometimes we flow like the white rapids and others like a hurricane.
Waking is for sure …
Determined Not rated yet
I wake up, determined to realize the potential of today.
To see my children off to school with a kiss. To make a hot breakfast for my little daughter. …
Wasted Not rated yet
Wasted time and
Wasted tears
Where has the time gone?
I didn't realize I was just letting my life pass me by
I realize now that I let precious time …
M.S. Not rated yet
M.S.
You say
That in the London fog you lose your way.
That you will not go again
But you know nothing
of how lost I often feel,
in the …
Lorelei Not rated yet
All the pretty sights and sounds
Will not hold at bay the unbound bitch
Your soul will rightfully cringe in fear
Hope does have an end
…
Betrayed Not rated yet
manage your crisis
stay out of hot water
minimize your damage
don't relapse just remit
walk with poise
with legs that may fail
there is no pill …
Falling Not rated yet
I want to walk but I know I can’t
Confusion and fear hold me back
I fall and people I trust don’t catch me.
When I was 25 years old, I ran for a …
Deamons and Monsters Not rated yet
Dreams about my future
About what I wanna do
I still have them
I still dream
But I know they won't come true
I breathe and I'm alive
I'm just …
Just M.S.ing Around Not rated yet
Just never mind me
No, really I'm fine
No, I haven't been drinking …
As a Small Child's Bird Not rated yet
Years of in the spent
In what seems like an endless search
Poked and then prodded
As a small child's bird
Trapped
Within this cage on a perch …
I am - Stronger then I am Not rated yet
I look at my husband, and he to I: he smiles
Unknown to him - are of my fear of the miles
That I may not be able too travel
For each days walking …
The Diagnosis Not rated yet
These migraines are getting out of control,
Maybe its time to see that doctor.
He says that stress could be a minor role,
Take some pills, he's …
Can't Take Me Away Not rated yet
bake in the sun
work out at the gym
go for a run
cry til my body aches
drink til my head spins
walk til my feet swell
play outside with my …
I will WIN Not rated yet
MS challenges me.
But my husband's love,
Gives me strength,
My mother's voice,
Brings me courage,
My children’s support,
Gives me the will,
My …
The Colors Of MS Not rated yet
Yes MS has many colors
Many shades like none other
Feeling red angry and frustrated
Trying to cope so overrated
And then there is black
When your …
Quick Sands Not rated yet
The tides of sands, savor skin;
It's drift, burning, no certain kin.
Mires of mesh, stifle each gasp;
Prior ebbs, rankle the overcast.
The sandpiper …
I Never Get A Break Not rated yet
I never seem to get a break
How much more of MS can I take
My mood swings are severe
Going from up and down everywhere
Making me feel so depressed …
Just What I Think Not rated yet
I think it's the MS just closing my eyes
Just closing my eyes to the fear
I think it's the MS making everything so hard
Tripling my efforts each …
Like The Super Bowl Win Not rated yet
Like The Super Bowl Win
Us MSers also must never give in
The Saints though never a contender
For all the years this team did not render
Yet took a …
Life Sentence Not rated yet
Like the dog chained
to the chariot wheel
I have no choice.
It makes no difference
whether I am dragged
claws screaming and scraping,
or whether …
Just Because Not rated yet
Just because I
Can't walk good to the eye
My right foot drags my oh my
Your searing looks I feel
I want to shout back what's the deal
Am I that different …
What MS Means To Me Not rated yet
What does MS mean to me
It's an everyday challenge yessiree
Some days are good and going great
But again some days many a challenging feat
Only I …
No Longer Benign Not rated yet
It finally happened
My MS is on a tear
I'm noticing changes
Stuff maybe I can't bear
I always knew it might happen
Protecting myself was uppermost …
How Long? Not rated yet
Today I knew I was finally crippled
Half the day I went here and there
But in between was when I was
Doubled over, my feet slapping the ground
Or …
Stranger Not rated yet
I see a wheelchair and I just know
Every hair in place with gay clothes
The picture of health and vigor
Alert, sparkling eyes
Exuding confidence …
Resistance Not rated yet
I get somewhere
But I can't get back
My mind is willing
But my feet won't move
Pushing against a sand wall
The impulses don't come through
…
MS Means Not rated yet
MS could mean "mighty splendid"
It could mean "more sensation"
Or maybe "mostly sore"
But it doesn't
It means being bone tired
It means being lonely …
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