Best Henrietta Poems

Dr. George Gey from Johns Hopkins Hospital
Was looking for cells that would be reproducible
Of their own accord for the benefit of medicine
And lo and behold one day found the perfect specimen
And how he acquired it didn't rattle his conscience
Because there weren't any rules then that...

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Henrietta Tweedy

1886 – 1907

I was always taught that good news puts fat on the bones.
And I was taught by my strict Christian father
That before honor comes true humility.
I remember picking the Valencia’s one summer afternoon
And hearing him say
That the winners in life are the givers,
And...

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how every new roaming is ever true to adventurers?...

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Good cheer, my love, as we venture forth

Over land and sea without recourse

Banished to rove us we three

No matter the tempest, remember me

As I was in our former life

In love promoting,you formed your wife

No trickery connived to gain my trust

In wooing me you contained your...

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7/31/39 - 1/28/14

Though I'm saddened by her untimely 
passing , 
I won't question God or continue asking ,
Why he chose the time why he chose that 
day, 
To again remind us that we should pray...
Not because it's the only chance
To remember mom in a lasting...

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Henrietta is an inflexible being
her ideas are unbending and sacred
to say she is stubborn
is like calling the White House a hut
or a cobra a worm

My daddy called her pig-headed
it pleased her, she liked it
she has never married
no one has tried to knock her door down
or...

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Helter skelter Henrietta hen had a lot to say
Wiggling her tail feathers at me today
I knew now that the bozo loved to play
She did a happy dance and a slide sashay

Be comfortable in your feathers she said to me
Now she was jiving on the limb...

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