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Best Surgery Poems

Below are the all-time best Surgery poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of surgery poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member My Spinal Decompression Surgery
I'll never forget the date, the nineteenth of November
It's etched firmly in my mind, and I'll always remember
It was the day that I had my...

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Categories: surgery, care, caregiving, family, joy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Thirty-Eight, Cancer Poem: For Sharon
Thirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon

Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that...

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Categories: surgery, absence, best friend, cancer,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Passion
you                 don't            know 


my                  ...

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Categories: surgery, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The True Mother
“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s...

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Categories: surgery, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By God's Grace
I, who always used to gravitate toward health and fitness,
would flatter myself that I was too healthy to ever get a bad disease.
Then it happened!...

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Categories: surgery, cancer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rachel's Special Challenges
Rachel’s birth brought early challenges
    Surgery closed a hole in her heart
         Learning disabilities...

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Categories: surgery, child, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 1856

During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial...

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Categories: surgery, dark, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Pedicure Virgin
I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surgery, humor,
Form: Prose
Footle..Visit To the Dentist.
The fear
In here ..
                  The chair
  ...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surgery, satire
Form: Light Verse
All Change
This year I turned the big ‘5-0’
And my body is acting strange
So I went to see the doctor who said
Not to worry, as I was...

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Categories: surgery, funny, health, life
Form: Light Verse
Prayer For Dane Ann
May God place his hand,
In your hand today, Dane Ann,
And see you safely on your way.
May God guide the surgeon’s hands.
May the rest of us...

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© James Rudd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surgery, faithgod, god,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Hospitals Are
Hospitals are designed
(a) to make you appreciate your bed at home
(b) to prompt many unanswerable questions 
(c) to facilitate smooth patient care
(d) to never complain...

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Categories: surgery, appreciation, care, conflict, fun,
Form: List
Premium Member A Little Bit Free
Just a Little Bit Free

 I feel that I need to get out
 to walk by the oak and pine trees
 breathe fresh air and....

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Categories: surgery, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My True Hero
I had a quarrel with my own life 
I didn’t want to divulge it to anyone I knew
It was then I met the one who...

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Categories: surgery, appreciation, endurance, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Still-Thankful For
Two-thousand twenty-one, scratching my head.
Let’s back up all the way up to January. Mom and Dad
working consistently to beat the ovarian cancer-monster.
Still the clink
 ...

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Categories: surgery, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs