Best Anaesthetist Poems

I was Second Lieutenant of the Army Nurse Corps, 
At Pearl Harbour when it was attacked and bombed;
I was in my room at the nurses’ quarters, a store, 
Near Tripler Army Hospital, six miles from le monde. 

At about 8:20am the on-call nurse called me,
Said...

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OBE
I never really believed in the white light
At the end of a tunnel-try as I might
I was having a laugh with the anaesthetist
When the surgeon did ask him for a quick assist
“Why is she not asleep yet? I heard him ask
She is used to the...

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In the Barley Tavern I do hear all sorts of stories,
based on many home conflicts, or musing on past glories,
but now and then a funny tale is uttered at the bar,
I’d never hear too often, and is a mite bizarre.

I’d heard that Dennis Flowers was...

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Pristine walls surround me, as the beeping hurts my ears.

My vision blurs once more, and within moments I'm wheeled somewhere I can only describe as deafening.

A young girl around my age screams as her mother tries to soothe both the girl and herself - it...

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