Best Physician Poems

The majority of the following poem was
lost forever, except for a portion recalled 
by the author's lady friend, many years after 
his untimely death. I will post the recollections
of Mrs. Shew-Houghton first, followed by my own
additions (appearing in ALL CAPS). 

The Beautiful Physician (Poe's last...

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Spring Cleaning is Sarah’s dreaded routine
She gets exhausted, drinks lots of caffeine
   She goes to her doctor
   Who gives her the ‘what-for'
Then shoots Sarah full of adrenaline...

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At the end of a dry, harsh August, as
Autumn slowly descends upon Whitechapel, 
I begin my vicious practice.
From Buck’s Row to Hanbury Street,
I make each house call brief.
My methods most precise—each cut, so deep,
So effectively fatal, soft and discrete.
A secondary incision—
Across my new friend’s abdomen—
Completes...

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I am no doctor
Yet I do some research on health 
Scary - isn't it!...

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Earth's Physician
by Lori Maria Walton

When earth is violently ill,
  breathing laboriously to survive,
Who becomes her physician?
  Where is a medicine that can heal?

Aggressive stampedes of soldiers
   running to misguided missions of Glory
Green fields traded for green paper
  Rushing to force...

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Could a soul find room
at the core of an atom?
So Eve changed the spelling
thinking dim of such wit –
thought an apple a day
would keep both of them
fit.......

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You go the doc
He puts you in shock
  'You will get worse
  before you get better'
You have a right to squawk...

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Infidel I’m
My God is my master of soul

Belief of Muslim, Christian, Jew, Buddha, Hindu….
hurts me very much,
troubles walking path of my conscience,
gashes my inside temple of heart

My true sense of sight, smell, hearing, touch, tasting
now in badly wounded
many physicians of prevailing religions come and go
but...

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THE GREAT PHYSICIAN

 the gray sky of a virus, angry
            furrowed brows -
scowling,
     coughing - not laughing.

what affectation the globe hurling
      toward fear.
  ...

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Position of Family Physician

One day we did have to make a decision;
And God for people did create a position;
We did read;
Much in need;
He planned on calling it family physician.

Jim Horn

Such A Shame We Acclaim

We should not acclaim fortune or fame;
Take credit for or else ...

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Consider, dear artist, quite carefully,
the subject you seek to eternalize.
Glamorous glories; bright youth so carefree -
these often capture first glance of the eyes.

But if you decide 'pon showy delights,
those feeling such things won't look to your craft.
Their eyes will not rest in their neon nights.
Till...

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He was not hungry, but, he knew the hunger of each soul.
He knew, many were physically and mentally ill.
The liberation of each soul from their bonds was his goal.
In him, the poor and the downtrodden felt an unknown thrill.

Caste, colour, and creed differences couldn't touch...

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A certain doctor
who attends to a patient
is left sick and weak....

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N	Naturally caring.
U	Understanding and Kind.
R	Realistically diagnoses
S	Sees things others miss
E	Enthusiastic about helping people...

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An old man who looked somewhat young
But after he had a song sung
Held tightly to his right lung 
And to a nearby chair clung …

An Old Man who now truly looked it:
Blotches on a weak skin poorly lit;
He had many times dared a twitter
And in...

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