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Ems Poems - Poems about Ems

The Column

...The night was not for sleeping.
It was for the drag of headlights
against the skin of wet asphalt,
for the torn-down column
spitting its weight into the earth —
too heavy for a backhoe,
too stu...
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Categories: ems, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberForeign Vogon Poetry

...Sopheceles studs chorale the Martyrdom call 'ems
ant-chant Thyme dash and Cheyenne bled-cles
and Mud Squadrorns dove colorblind
Link on-a-role spiked with trail and errs past

Prosed...
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Categories: ems, imagery,
Form: Vogon Poetry



Premium MemberStreets of Solitude

...It sometimes feels like I am the only one on the street
that is suffering from the pain of an addicted child
I know the feeling that this may be the time I lose him
as he lies in an ICU bed uncons...
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Categories: ems, addiction,
Form: Free verse

Grab Bag Poems

...Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams

POEMS

Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes
from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus”
by Michael R. Burch

Every corona has a silver lining:
I...
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Categories: ems, allegory, america, analogy, parody,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhat Are the Ems

...You can have all the produce in my garden except the Ems.
What are the Ems? I asked my more enlightened friends.
His magical mushrooms, they have minds and they talk.
I laughed at their imaginatio...
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Categories: ems, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme



Freepr

...“CPR is only done to dead people,”
   or, at least, I was taught that
    in an oddly-lit conference room 
at a local EMS center. 
The instructor would’ve had to have 
  used me as a real exampl...
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Categories: ems, class, education, graduation, health,
Form: Free verse

Unbound

...
shroud of mist entombs
eerie silence takes a hold
~
sun hauls back those drapes


Written 14th January 2021

Contest Hi-Ku(7) place promise
Sponsor Brian Strand
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Categories: ems, silence, sun, surreal, weather,
Form: Haiku

The Name That I Call You Today

...Some Call you COVID-19, Others Call you Corona, or Crown in Spanish.


I Call you Death, For Today you Took My Friend.


He was a Critical Care Physician in the neighborhood hospital, when you ...
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Categories: ems, bereavement, courage, death, endurance,
Form: Free verse

2020 the Year They Called Health Care Workers Heroes

...2020 the year they called healthcare workers heroes
We seen this virus coming it came from far away, just not knowing when it would get here or how long it would stay.
We closed all borders and lef...
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Categories: ems, inspiration,
Form: I do not know?

Bachelorhoodwinked

...bachelorhoodwinked
by michael r. burch

(a poem about wedlock, or lock->wed)

u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ***ALARMING***
since all my resolve
dissolved!

u
are
chic
as a sh...
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Categories: ems, desire, engagement, lust, marriage,
Form: Free verse

Fire Call

...Tones blare
Heart pounds
Prayers sent
Station bound

Turnouts on
Nomax too
Helmet, gloves
And rubber boots

18-15
That is me
Sirens sing
Engine gleams

Airpack on
Arrive on scene
Car...
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Categories: ems, fire,
Form: I do not know?

Science

...Metrics,
Real concs. 

Problems,
Solve ‘ems. 

Nature,
Culture.

See slave,
Behave. 

Faction,
Action. 

Mating,
Dating. 

Suckle,
Chuckle. 

Test tube,
Stat loop.

Scope read...
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Categories: ems, atheist, body, change, drug,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberEmergency Medical Service Workers

...Where are you going? The EMS workers are wondering
As a thousand screaming people run out 
The EMS is running in

What can we do to help? The EMS workers are asking
Helping each other triage, in...
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Categories: ems, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHim Improvement

...To husbands who are mystified
We offer here this marriage guide.
You'll have the finest union yet
If you accept this alphabet.

A  dopt a female point of view.
B  e strong, but gentle, kind,...
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Categories: ems, for her, humor, husband,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberWhat Will One Day Drive Me, From Society

...I greet each day the very same way. 
It's A Great Day To Be Alive.
It's a positive way to begin your day,
but for me, it's so I can survive.
Waking up is a struggle. Way too much trouble.
Not wa...
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Categories: ems, grief, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

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