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Best Stretchers Poems


Madelyn Blonskey
...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 l......

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Categories: stretchers, death, dedication, devotion, health,
Form: Quatrain
Learning How To Walk Again
...Returned...no home and shaken by the past
Awaken lonely and reduced to quick sand
I try to stand up facing Fate once more
Indifferent audience then... Now? a silent, curious watch...

I feel my arms ......

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Categories: stretchers, life, dream, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Personality So Calm and Soft
...Her heart is located in every part of her being
and bones, calcified with the vitamins of meekness.
Peace begins and ends her collection of any intention
and her reaction, irrespective of ......

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Categories: stretchers, character, people, poetry,
Form: Ode

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Daddy Neck Stretchers
...A long neck giraffe,
I saw at the zoo.
And I wished my head
could be up high, too!


Daddy, I asked,
Why is my neck so small?
I want a giraffe's neck,
long and tall.

Then I could touch
t......

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Categories: stretchers, child, dad, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Game
...What a name called? 
Football a game called, 
To known arena called stadium, 
Played eleven to eleven side to side each, 
Formations of it kinds, 
Aims of a two goal post net, 
Aims of a trophy, 
Aim......

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Categories: stretchers, sports,
Form: Double Dactyl
The Grief of Gaziantep
...The Grief of Gaziantep.

Hotter than a Dragon’s kiss, 
the seas boil under saffron sun.
Tiny thrumming mosquitoes zone on sweating, caramac skin,
Customer entertainment...hanging from shop front......

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Categories: stretchers, bereavement, evil, grief, sorrow,
Form: Free verse



A Survivor of Massacre
...This is my story,  
It is a sad story to tell, 
Open ears and eyes,   
The bloodbath of more than 500 people , 

"Some burried alive... Yooh!
I continue crying  while writting this story to you......

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Categories: stretchers, 12th grade, angst, march,
Form: Narrative
Lazy Dream Mysterious Death
...From the heart of green naïve village
surrounded by corps field, mosque, ponds, 
ancestral grave yard, school, college, 
madrasah (islamic school) etc he is

brothers, sisters with parents, a be......

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Categories: stretchers, sorrow,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member In the Darkened Foyer
...In the Darkened Foyer


There you are again.
Walking this darkened foyer, and that carpeted hallway,
Eyeing the sunken-eyed dancer who forgets she’s not alive;
She’s just passing by all the sic......

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Categories: stretchers, death,
Form: Free verse
Accident
...Shards of glass catch the sun's fluid rays,
reflecting tiny rainbows into human eyes.
Twisted shells of metal vehicles
lie bleeding in the midst of human flies.

Anguished cries haunt the fragil......

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Categories: stretchers, angst, life, people, social,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dreamtime: State Fair of Mind
...DREAMTIME: STATE FAIR OF MIND 

the barren vendor 
 sold wishes 
 to those 

 hoping 
 to 
 forget 

 at the back of the room 
 wizened old men 
 sat together on a bench 
 across from ol......

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Categories: stretchers, introspectionold, old,
Form: Free verse
Graveyard Groupies
...Look out you might see them
scuttling down your street
patting the neighbour’s dog 
nodding to people they meet

They lurk on hospital corridors
wearing their black shiny shoes
then scour obit......

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Categories: stretchers, death, funeral, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Funeral Home Grumblings
...A quick pre-Halloween poem to capture a creepy funeral home scene. 
______
T’was the night before Halloween, the funeral home quiet.
All the tables were taken, like a frightening, dark Hyatt.
Str......

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Categories: stretchers, anxiety, bereavement, crazy, dark,
Form: Blank verse
My Beloved
...[September: we mourn the existence of death that stroll 
towards father's eyes, but we'll keep outstriding this storm]

My beloved drew nectars from the stretchers
of my smile & was lifted.
in m......

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Categories: stretchers, emotions, hope, i love
Form:
Glorious Moment
...How wisdom of a young king flourishing
 like  watered flowers. 
         Quote by poet.

Sometimes some people praise their leaders 
After winning some great battles.  
When King Mndala Chimbal......

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Categories: stretchers, africa, culture, people,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things