Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Videos
Resources
Syllable Counter
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Quotes
Short Stories
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 18.217.203.108
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
Watching Beth interact with her Kindergarten class mates was precious to watch. Beth was a lovely little girl with big brown eyes, who was very affectionate. One afternoon, the school principal, called Beth's mom and dad, Kathy and Brian. Their unexpected news was shocking to hear. Beth had suffered a seizure. This turned Kathy and Brian's world upside down. Her parents took Beth to several Doctors. They did not know what was causing the seizures. The seizures increased to a hundred a day. The pain Kathy and Brian felt watching Beth go through this illness, was heartbreaking. One day Kathy noticed Beth's seizures stopped while she was watching Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood show, for that half hour. Realizing this, Kathy reached out to Mr Rogers' studios for a signed autograph of Mr Rogers. During this time one of Beth's Dr's had ascertained her illness. She was suffering from Rasmussens Encephalitis, an inflammatory Neurological disorder, with no cure. She had also lost function on the right side of her body, no longer going to school, and needing help to eat. She had to have surgery, to remove part of her brain. That evening Kathy received a call from Mr Rogers's studio, asking if Beth would be there at 7 pm the following day. Her mother's reply was, " Absolutely Yes!" The call came in the next day, and Kathy handed the phone to Beth and quietly stepped out of the room with Brian, to watch their daughter talk to Mr Rogers. They were both in tears, watching the joy in Beth's face. For the first time in months, there was a joy in the household that, was missing, for some time. Mr Rogers had all his puppets talk to Beth. Lady Elaine Farchi, King Friday XIII, Queen Sara Saturday, and Daniel Striped Tiger. They talked for over an hour. The call ended with Daniel The Striped Tiger telling Beth everything would be alright, and that he loved her. Mr Rogers sent her a box full of Meromobilia. She listened to his tape as she was headed for surgery, at John Hopkins Hospital. The surgery took twelve hours, but Beth went into a coma. Hearing this Mr Rogers flew into Baltimore and was by Beth's side, he brought all the Puppets with him. A month later she was out of the coma, and couldn't believe her Puppet friends were all there, along with Mr Rogers. Mister Rogers hugged her and said goodbye. He calls Beth every year on her birthday. If there ever was a human Angel it would have to be Mr Rogers. Credit also to Andie Judson Google Beth Usher and Mr Rogers
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required