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Best Carers Poems


Premium Member All the President’s Men
...It’s one thing to be senile
and lie in your own drool.
It’s another to be President 
and be that droolin’ fool.

So ask yourself, America,
of all the President’s men…
who was runnin’ the c......

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Categories: carers, america, corruption, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Noble Beasts
...The horse is a fascinating creature that serves us so well


Having had a life long relationship with horses
I am full of admiration for their endless toils.
They are fiery yet mainly gentle gia......

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Categories: carers, horse,
Form: Epic
Wishes 10
...If I had 10 wishes
I would use them this way
Homes for  the homeless 
So they will have somewhere to stay

Supply food to the hungry
Where constant sun hits the land.
They also need water
Because the......

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Categories: carers, hope, people, people,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Patrick Oflanagan
...Patrick O’Flanagan’s covert shenanigans
Make people ask where he gets to at night
There’s a perception that Patrick O’Flanagan
Visits a door with a glowing red light

What people don’t know abou......

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Categories: carers, age, dance, humorous, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sipping Coffee
...“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma

As also this dopamine boosting flavour I taste

I surrender all pleasures to the dweller of my heart

Breath by breath thus that my soul presence......

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Categories: carers, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nineteen
...[Wrote this during Covid in a ‘Ring a ring a roses’ frame
of mind. Wasn’t sure what archaic rules were in place around
the world, so sat on it. Basically… in England, ‘other people’
were ......

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Categories: carers, anxiety, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 1
...The Lay of The Best Man - Part One

I’ve seen men ‘good’, and surely, I’ve seen men ‘bad’
So jealous and so envious, I’ve seen men ….sad
Twisted, fuming with anger, and consumed with rage
Callou......

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Categories: carers, humanity, men,
Form: Lay
Creatures of the Night
...Time’s dark veil floats slowly to Earth
As people of twilight wait for rebirth
A species is stirring, about to take charge  
The men of the gloom, dark workers at large

Moonlit toil revealed by......

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Categories: carers, people, urbanpeople, dark, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Tractor Boy
...>Although I love writing, I would also like my books to sell. Then I can grant my wife her wishes and buy her a house by the sea. And if there is enough in the kitty one for me. I never miss a chance......

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Categories: carers, confusion, health, how i
Form:
Inequality, Shame and Blame
...Is it not time yet to end this food bank life

And desperate youth killing each others with a knife

Short of support, help and education

Short of understanding it's not that complicated

Th......

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Categories: carers, angst, betrayal, corruption, emotions,
Form: Free verse
School and My Future
...My future happiness depended upon school, 
They’re understanding of religious older parents,
Them constraining them with supervision, 
So that I could have autonomy in my garments. 

I mean, my ......

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Categories: carers, caregiving, character, education, mother
Form: Rhyme
Ok
...OK

It’s ok to think I'm disabled, it’s not ok to ignore my atheism;
It’s ok to know I'm firstly an atheist, it’s not ok to assume this has always been obvious; 
It’s ok to understand that I use ......

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Categories: carers, discrimination, education, life, people,
Form: Free verse
A-W
...Americans, Algerians, Australian aborigines,
Corrupt leaders of the world involved in illegal activities.
Bloodthirsty bullies brazenly bombing bystanders,
Militaries full of corrupt army commande......

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© Wes Martin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carers, planet, political, pollution, weather,
Form: Rhyme
If I Could Change the Past
...If i could retake my life to bake again, 
I’d say exactly where, what and when, 
To my family and fundamentalist church, 
To those with importance as a crutch. 

I’d take that offer of life and ......

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Categories: carers, confidence, courage, emotions, health,
Form: Heroic Couplet
A More Intelligent Life Form of Human - Layons
...I required my tea cooked for me and assisted since I had Cerebral Palsy, so I asked Thomas my care robot to come from the other room. We could relate well, partly because we layons have chips in our ......

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Categories: carers, care, caregiving, discrimination, earth,
Form: Haibun

Book: Reflection on the Important Things