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Premium Member Disease List of Walking Hospital

When people ask me 
“how are you”, I say “fine”,
a short reply but a huge lie,
because I am a walking hospital 
where in every corner disease lurks, 
from head to toe the list is below.

The head splits in hypertensive headache morning till night
One eye’s vision is hazy with AMD, the other’s with cataract
The red nose runs the whole winter with spells of sinusitis
The ears are blocked to near deafness by obstinate hard wax
The aching shoulders have been frozen long by spondylosis
The blocked heart paining in angina has two stents though
The stomach secretes burning acid more than necessary
The liver sends artery-full of LDL to the stenosed heart 
The sluggish kidneys have built bags under the eyes 
The bloated prostate breaks sleep thrice at night
The knee joints abrade painfully in osteoarthritis
The big toes swell red in ceaseless bouts of gout.

I am still walking my hospital,
searching for a patient doctor (GP)
who will take charge and cure me. 

July 29, 2019
Contest : Writing Challenge 3, July 2019 - List
Sponsor : Dear Heart
Form: List


Boy Malaysia

Who is this Malaysian boy?
His style is dashing,
His eyes are beckoning.
He is the eastern boy from Nnewi,
With the hands that work all day,
Where poverty has no space.
He is the western boy from Ile-Ife,
With the reckoning personality of dignity,
Here,kingship breeds.
He is the northern boy from Daura,
With the ancestral voyage of valour,
A nature of prestige.

You'll find him in his abode,
In the central district of Kuala Lumpur,
He burns candles at both ends,
The Nigerian trait of dutifulness.
Leaving b'ami,ma'mi,Aduke and Akanni back home,
He had tears in his eyes.
Again,his face lit up with the hopes of riches and glamours.
"In the nearest years", he had said,"I'll be rich and famous".
"I'll buy mama,papa,Nwanne and Nna each,a plot of land".
"Magnificent structures will stand on each land".

"Aminatu and Aliyu will go to better schools",
"Ramatallahi will no longer be a milk-maid".
He said these when leaving the shores of his fatherland.
His kidneys are dually intact,
They are very special to him.
He has been taught the essence of hardwork.
He understands the menace of moral decadences,
And the consequences therein.
He's indeed not a drug peddler,
He is not into cybercrime,
He's only gone in search of greener pastures.
Form: Narrative

Dialysis

Dialysis 

Dialysis 
What is that 
Let's do some  research 
Get a few facts 
It's a procedure to remove waste products and excess fluid from the blood when the kidneys stop working properly
They have to take your blood out 
Clean it put it back in 
You experience the chills 
And sometimes it leaves you in shock 
They need heating blankets and cozy socks 
To stay warm 
They experience so much with their bodies 
They have to be dialysised three times a week 
It's exhausting 
Overbearing 
It's scary 
I thought this was worth sharing 
Your blood pressure can be lowered 
You experience muscle cramps 
is physically and emotionally draining, causes complications such as nerve problems, anaemia, bone disease and infection. In addition, an arduous regime of three days a week on dialysis can lead to symptoms including nausea, vomiting, cramps and depression.
Whew Let's have a session
My mom had to go go to dialysis for 4 years 
Three times a week 
She went through a lot 
On a machine 
Trying to give it your all 
Sometimes she would have to get off of it because her body would cramp 
She would cry 
Unless you were a dialysis patient. 
You wouldn't understand why 
I salute ?? each one 
Each one i wish I could give a hug
You guys are tough ?? 
And deserve a lot of love 
A chronic kidney disease 
That comes with no ease 
Getting stuck with needles 
Getting blood drawn 
In and out
Out and in
It can affect the Skin 
Leaving all kinds of bruises 
And dark spots 
You my diaylsis friends  will never be forgot 
Let's put our hearts together and hold hands 
Make this disease better if we can 
How can you get checked 
If you feel something is wrong 
Do us a favor get checked on
Yes it can affect your urine 
Maybe even stop you from having children.
I don't know 
The more information I get for you 
The more I'll let you know 
Dialysis doesn't necessarily mean it's the end 
Just pick up where you left off 
You can still win

I wrote this tribute in honor of my mother 
Who is no longer physically here 
Rest in Paradise Beautifully my dear 
And to all if you feel like it gets Overbearing 
Let's honor dialysis and all that we have lost and those who are still fighting 
In honor of my mom 
Lets get 
Kozy for Karen
Written by Concetta Hardnett 
01/12/2025

Premium Member Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate

I'm thinking about rhyme and meter
but also my kidneys and my liver.

The nation-state and the failed state
and whether killers should be executed

or forgiven. Meditate on this: Thy
will be done. Do what has to be done

don't ask why. Clean the dishes and the house.
Will I be left to my own resources

or will all be given? Nevermind
what you can't imagine. Living's

life's priority. Friends are merely friendly, 
they're in the majority. Loneliness

is the default position. Rain happens.
We supply the reasons.

How do people process their lives without art? 
By caring not.

Ignore
yr autobiography.

In olden days, if you couldn't stand to pee
the family buried you under the pecan tree.
Form: Verse

Changin' This Mess

Great britain 
Great big mess 
Mess with the status quo
Mess with Merkel a bit more  
More houses 
More hugs 
Hugs for the Scots
Hugs for the broker 
Broker of Doom
Broker fiscal swim ring
Ring up the bank 
Ring for a mortgage 
Mortgage your kidneys 
Mortgage your air 
Air on the h string
Air plane escape plan 
Plan your future
Plan your time
Time is running down 
Time to grow a pair 
Pair of sunglasses 
Pair of people 
People with a coup to plan 
People will rise up 
Up to their keyboards 
Up to standard 
Standard pronunciation 
Standard stories 
Stories for facebook 
Stories small and great  
Great old Church 
Great big clock 
Clock tick tocks 
Clock won’t stop
Stop smoking those herbs    
Stop polluting the air 
Heir to what
Heir to nothing 
Nothing risked 
Nothing stained 
Stained blue jeans
Stained glass window
Window of opportunity 
Window of time
Time of your life 
Time is a changin’
Changin’ anyone left behind   
Changin’ our flag
Flag 
Behind
Form: Blitz


Toasted Kernals of Salted, Saged Brothing's

he spoke of hear the pig's heart
they sounded loudly thru the ribs 
his flesh was fresh and would
cause him to wish for silence
"the husk's of the kernal's,
are grounded by those sages who
are brothed by livers and kidneys
the flesh of the swine, damn-it might his
heart be silent
might my ears hearest him not!
she created me with seasons
in the room
beaneath her floor
the heart sounds thru it's aroma
to starve me into my sileance.
might bread be browned
and eggs warmed to perfection
that the I might silence the
pig beneath the floor.
than might you love me
than might you love me!


He wishes to have scrapple egg's and toast.

Premium Member Divine Intervention

It was that particular point of time in my lone life,
When, mind like tabula rasa, empty and without strife;
Mornings started and evenings ended without any aim,
Driven by impulses I lived, like wildlife, with no shame...

Alcoholism, like chains of a lunatic, had bound me,
Though willing, like bird in a cage, I could not become free;
Not today, to me I would say, yet mind will slowly pull,
Gulping peg after pegs, I'd walk like a random mad bull...

Health or wealth, like for animals, did not matter at all,
Body or soul - no faith or ethics - in my ear did fall;
Parents, siblings, friends, relatives - to no one did I care,
Life flew about floating, like aimless feather in the air... 

It's then, like punishments or coercive ways of nature,
Ailments began eating myself, like a deadly-creature;
Lungs, liver, stomach, bladder and kidneys seemed protesting,
Eyes, ears, skin and bones seemed to stop their act of protecting...

Does benevolent earth, her exploiters, endlessly bear? 
Doesn't Ecosystem in the form of flood and drought scare?
Could even best physicians, one's dead life ever bring back?
How I, like a fool, my life to death willingly offer?

Thus I, like one at the brink of the grave, stood lost! Helpless!
My doctor though fixed tentative date, expressed hopefulness;
Craving to drink seduced me, like lady with endless love,
I knew my soul soiled; should be changed; yet, I did not know how...

I felt none and nothing I could rely on, except God,
I did cling to Him, like a dog to his master and lord;
God, like good mother seeing her child in pain, intervened,
Caring for my needs, touching my inner wounds, my ills healed... 

My heart, like a bouquet, to my Lord, now I have offered,
By prayer, hymn and divine worship, my life is powered;
My strength and weakness, like an open-book, before Him lies,
Though urge for evils press me, He'll grant me courage to rise...!



31 December 2021 
DIVINE INTERVENTION Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Chantelle Anne Cooke
Form: Rhyme

Bottled

Gall stones large as hens’ eggs,
pale kidneys buoyant as seabirds.
Shriveled livers,

yet some so bloated they have features
as if the organ had drowned
imprinted by a sleeping face.

A fetus floating in a deeper space than
can be calculated by light years.

There is less purpose in preserving
the anatomy of death now.
The carnival wagons have gone away,
the fish-man in his tank;
the tuberous lungs of the malformed
free now from any glassy ogle.

However, in the medical museum
bottled body parts still wait
in their mason jars
for a hand to commence
death's long-prophesied unscrewing.

Premium Member Love, Mom

To My Beloved Daughters (for when I’m gone)

It happened. Please, don’t shed too many tears,
(I know, you won’t listen, fine!)
A few, all right! But followed by loud cheers
To celebrate mom’s amazing path in time,
Glorified by her and in her own rhyme!

Last letter of undying love and advice - 
Live open heartedly, mindedly and wise.
Worries tuck away by dusk, sleep long and tight -
Morning vision is much sharper than at night.

Eat smart, not more, thus spare yourselves from diet,
Draw the line between enough and the last bite.
Smile more, frown less, laugh often and out loud,
Good, old chuckle scatters away the darkest cloud.

Live in a present moment, yet consider
Your heart, lungs, kidneys, cervix, guts and liver.
Recklessly indulge, and one of those will fail
Commodity of vital worth – not on sale!

When your own precious kids grow up to know,
Please tell them that their grandma loves them so!
With each kiss and hug you grant them with a glee
Add some and more tender extras just from me.

Not quite sure, from below or from above,
But no doubt I’m watching over you with Love.
I’m aware that all mothers sound trite
Not always funny, but almost always right!

Love. Mom.


November 22, 2020
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Aging Gracefully

Up in the morning
body a puzzle
with various layers
going in and out of 
this dimension

Liver enraged
legs projecting
a different plane of reality
than the arms

Muscle fiber groups
looking for their chorus
to sing a symphony
instead playing a lot of solos

Spleen laughing hysterically
at what 
no one knows
least of all the brain
which keeps sending signals
that no one wishes to hear

Bowels and guts
keep making fun
of each others'
names and comportment 

Kidneys about 
to break through the damn
despite the bladder paying its taxes
to keep the water out

Nervous system
does not have the heart
to grieve
this state of affairs

Noises and strange motions
coming from everywhere
going nowhere fast

Joints at wrong angles
each one 
blaming the other
and the pillow

Then a loud yawn
and breakfast is served

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