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Best Surgical Poems

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


Mr Fauci Mr Fauci
Mr Fauci Mr Fauci
You are making me to so grouchy

TV appearances persistent
I’d prefer you social distant

Every day you make a statement
Think I’ll call for noise...

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Categories: surgical, paradise, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Confessions of a Baby Snatcher
This is my last confession; there will be no more.

I am impercipient and slow from last night's sleeping pill,
wincing away from the harshness of day.
Kitchen...

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Categories: surgical, baby, loss,
Form: Free verse
Poets of a New Dawn

Taking a long ink dip in a desert pond,
rejected drake words
ripple echoes in the wilderness: Tread with care!
Dreadnought thoughts silicate crystalized,
glass menagerie opens to a...

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Categories: surgical, poets, truth, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
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: surgical, care, caregiving, family, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fart Attack
I awoke last night and fell out of bed.
A fart from my Pit bull nearly left me for dead.
It was silent but deadly as it...

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Categories: surgical, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Cycle of Past, Present, And Future
I left the past, in all its fullness, thinking, surely life isn’t complete.
     Next came the present, a flower in full...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surgical, change, destiny, future, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
She Wore Pineapple Rings For Glasses
She wore pineapple rings for glasses
and walked like jelly dances
I didn't rate her chances
She used to wee standing up
she cooked lemon a'la duck
won the lottery,...

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Categories: surgical, fantasy, food, funny, crazy,
Form: Monorhyme
Cold Hearted
Intravenous therapy,
She's watching over me.
Grasping my hand,
She whispers, "please dear, count to ten."

Six... piercing paralysis,
Her hand cold as the air.
She lets go, leaving me there.
Alone,...

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Categories: surgical, love, sadme, me,
Form: Free verse
Lucky Numbers 2, 10, 24, 65, 93
You don’t know this but
we’re all ISBN’s. At birth,
we’re tattooed across our asses
with barcodes, ID tags, social security numbers.
The only doctors allowed
to perform this surgical...

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© Kelsey May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surgical, conflict, nonsense, pain, scary,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member True Grit
My  name is Mattie Ross and I hail from Yell County
In the state of Arkansas living, on a ranch with family
At the age of...

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Categories: surgical, america, death, loss, murder,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Plus-Sized Women
Fashion cover girls these days make me sick,
All haggard and thin, they look like a stick.
Picking on South Beach diets to trim flat waists ...

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Categories: surgical, body, image,
Form: Couplet
Grabbing Colors With Vincent
Running fast thru Autumn’s dream, Vincent-bright in village winter’s light
Topaz-treed streets, eaves-filled , singing with saffron and  gold,
A Rocky Mountain cold cornflower sky over...

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Categories: surgical, art, dream, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Constructing Catacombs
Constructing Catacombs


Desirous death, a submersed breath, the walls in a carious crumble
Living life, a surgical serrate strife, as we stand surreal and stumble
Baneful blood, a...

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Categories: surgical, dark, death, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As An Orphan
I lived lonely, like an orphan,
their single, only child.
Envied others with siblings, often.
They must make life worthwhile!

I found my greatest joy in dreams
of what I...

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Categories: surgical, childhood, dream, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
One Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLCHXfkGOIw

One day we'll all go to the other side of the world 
where the moon is launched near the stars unfurled  
We will assemble...

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Categories: surgical, appreciation, heaven,
Form: Free verse

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