Long Catheter Poems

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The words are dark, sharp,vicious, viscous.
The images like bubbling, darkest jam,
With bubble like grim faces riding to the surface
Then bursting.
I am thirsting.Alternately with blood and bile,black.
I am a sad sack,
A pillow filled with rotten meat
For...

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Crackling tension filled the community hall in Abergavenny 

‘We are in this together dear folks for a pound or a penny’

Speaking of which the loos were situated right behind the bar

To ensure that urinal relief...

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Staring in the mirror when I'm down with these scissors I found. 
With my wrists out and prescription lids littered around. 
I've scribbled out a bitter letter in wicked accounts and written down twisted sentences...

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I had better start at the beginning
When my heart started beating to fast.
When I collapsed at work one day
And I thought I had breathed my last.
We had booked to go on holiday,
On a cruise we...

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This is going to hurt. As the catheter was inserted into
my groin, I screamed, I cried and I was forgiven.
I watched the whole procedure in awe, There before me
was my heart, vulnerable, beautiful. I saw...

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I always thought that I knew love
How intense that feeling could be
But, you were my gift from above
Just exactly what I'd need

I never thought I'd be a mother
I thought that time had past
It was a...

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She stroked his hand in passion and gave him life’s ultimate blessing

It’s time to go in love and peace she would miss his gentle caressing

Strokes of desire and passion from a wild sharp and emotional...

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Problems many of which are not getting solved
not because I'm not resolved but because I delay
to savor the day, the moon and the season
which is why I'm a non-person under the eye of eternity.

Except for...

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CPR

Not again call the code
Again in life saving mode
Grab the patient from the dark abode
This is a burden and heavy load

My heart is hard and callous
Working for years in the medicine palace
No criticizing you’ve your...

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About five years ago, I had a surgery and wrote this while in the hospital. I actually 
quite enjoyed myself and the surgery was not painful for me at all! Just came across 
this in...

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I wouldn’t say I stared it straight into the eye,
But certainly with death I was sitting side by side.
I was travelling on business, in a hotel room alone,
It was worrisome enough to have me use...

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"Lord, grant Your divine healing..."
This is my spirit's plea
Now that I'm confronted with my Dad's groaning angst
While he writhes in pain, struggling to express himself
Here in the Intensive Care Unit which is his haven this...

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I know My mother
When My mother grows old and very old, 
That she cannot recognize who I am,
she does not need to know me then, 
I am the one to know who she is to...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Heart
edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: June/2014


I've seen
my life
connection

to
the creator
of
my being -

I've seen 
my
heart
in
real time -

my life
before me 
on TV,

as I 
lay flat
on 
my back,

during
an
Angiogram -

They
probed

a small
catheter 
like
(camera )

from
my groin

to
my heart -

I
saw 
my heart
on
a big screen
monitor

beating
before my
eyes,

in 
real time -

I saw
the living
connection

that I
have to
God...

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The government and its people stay on antagonistic sides
but what stimulates the rulers’ infidelity to patriotism
can easily be bought by any, over the counter.
They are desperately in need 
of sailors to guide through the storm
yet...

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Well here we see that something is hot? About as real as
As the (tailpipe an e v's got?) The subject matter is what
You have got.' Either man or woman? Is what i consider?
And whether what...

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For more than a year I've lain stiff and quiet upon the hospital bed,
Bandaged and bundled and waited on like an unruly infant,
Finally allowed to get a drink myself when I'm dry and try to...

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Every needle
Every stick
Every catheter
Every surgery

Watching my blood 
For three hours
Run through a machine
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
It was my job 5am
3 hours

6 years experience
On my life resume
I have scars to show
Long memories 
Never leave my mind

Testimonials to...

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My Lord I thank you
You are the best
My love for you
Gets put through the tests
I went in the Hospital
For a heart catheter today
You made a natural bypass
On my heart some way
Thanks for the Miracle
Thanks for...

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