Face of an Angel
Face of an Angel
I hear the distant rumblings
of artillery shells
I hear the singing sound
of stray bullets
I lift my head to look
around and see the toll
Bodies scattered like
leaves on a fall day.
Some with limbs torn from
them like a barren tree.
Some with their entrails exposed
like a lion’s prey.
I feel no pain, just a
sense of floating
Of being
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Categories:
medic, war,
Form: Free verse
only God sees a medic cry
Verse #1:
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In my arms, Robert died that day
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An
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Categories:
medic, independence day,
Form: Lyric
Those Who Wore Their Twisted Cars
I was a paramedic for many years until a work injury put a stop to things and so this is a poem reflecting on my career
my blood was pouring into him
while his blood stuck
my feet to the floor
a floor vibrating over wheels
screeching corners with road signs
flickering lights, shouting back at us
how we disturbed sleep
this night
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Categories:
medic, body, car, feelings, work,
Form: Free verse
Single Cell Medic
Medic medic
Amoeba down
Hurry hurry
Before it drowns
Step step
From there to here
Medic medic
Has no fear
Dividing dividing
The nucleus splits
Membranes membranes
All have slits
Fix it fix it
Cytoplasm’s spilling
Rushes and gushes
The scene is chilling
Stitch stitch
The vacuole
Medic medic
Has a micro-tool
Amoeba amoeba
Will survive
For now for now
On a micro slide
But wait wait
Paramecium
Medic medic
Can you see him
There there
In a morass
Sliding sliding
Off the glass
Drat drat
Coz really
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Categories:
medic, fun, health, science,
Form: Rhyme
Hard Drug a Dug Grave
Mind-Cracking, Health-Crushing Hard Drug
Whose taker has his own grave dug:
For all the sad life’s holes it does plug,
Any helping dosing down on rug,
As though a shooter did one slug
Or a dirty criminal one mug.
A time to up a staircase lug
The Hopelessly Suicidal on drug;
To all the questions by a medic a shrug:
No deliverance
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Categories:
medic, addiction, death, depression, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Life Never Pleasant For the Peasant
A parent wanting his son to survive,
For this begins to humanly strive
To snatch him back, have his Jim revive
The scene before twelve a buzzing beehive,
Even as more alerted feet arrive,
Delaying Journalists to the scene soon drive
A hunger-induced fall and tragic swoon
No unpaid medic ever arrives that soon
No ready-for-body-use glucose,
An unashamed fry of sugar as penury
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Categories:
medic, funeral, future, health, money,
Form: Rhyme
Drunk Medic Eaved On
A lonely well, clear
A nurse besides stands
The sorry state of losing pro
Angst, fury and fear fight for brow
Tears gleam running after
Twin coppers sinking low.
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Categories:
medic, angst, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
New York Suffers
THIS POEM WRITHED OUT OF THE HEART;
BASED ON A TRUE STORY
AS PEOPLE OF THAT GREAT CITY
ARE TORN APART..
I AM A NEW YORKER
I was in a quarantine when my dady died
That night.
I saw my mom lost all emotions— fear, fantasy, failure, depression, OR WHAT?
My dad failed to fight...
I am a proud
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Categories:
medic, character,
Form: Lyric
Medic Care
Hey, Doc
You're on the clock
Ten patients an hour
You could use a cold shower
No time to waste
Diagnose with great haste
But don't a tumor mistake
For a plain old headache
At the end of the day
You add up your pay --
Insurance is covered
Go home to your
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Categories:
medic, career, love, money, stress,
Form: Rhyme
The Combat Medic
He almost slipped away today
With the many words he meant to say
About the way he felt
From the cards that were dealt
It was hard to keep the ghosts away
They would come in the dark
Screaming, crying, begging for his help
Faces obscured, but he knew who they were
The ones he had lost
In every sense of the word
Drink and
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Categories:
medic, anger, anxiety, death, mental
Form: I do not know?
From Medic To Cultured Gun Man
From Medic to Cultured Gun Man
Richard Boone
Now scattered ashes in Hawaii’s sea tomb.
Played a doctor in Medic,
Then Paladin who could have even spoken Samoyedic.
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Categories:
medic, celebrity, death, eulogy, paradise,
Form: Clerihew
The Night Medic
One day, a demon in a Medics uniform , came my way .
The Stranger appeared at night duty , only to find his prey.
I lay helpless in a hospital bed.
from recent Surgery with IVs was I fed.
He acted as if he belonged there.
as if it was his job , to be the night nurse
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Categories:
medic, abuse, betrayal, evil, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Medic
.
The shattered stare of the war-shocked
float and fade in the medic's head,
the spasmodic throes of the dying,
the sickening stench of the dead.
He trudges on through bloodied mud,
seeking out the lost and the wounded,
dazed in the gray haze of gunpowder,
slain before the battle even started!
.
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Categories:
medic, war
Form: Tail-rhyme
The Medic
The Medic
He is calculated in measure and rhythm,
In words without rhymes,
For he is a medic and he is the ink pen
That silences death’s toll in time.
He never speaks, in its solemn sobriety
And his beauty rises to my pulse
Like the epiphany of a sonnet,
Or the sonata of a piano
Until, at last, a shard of his sanctuary
Unfolds
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Categories:
medic, caregiving, lifemay,
Form: Verse
Categories:
medic, on work and working,
Form: Rhyme
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