Broken but bold enough to bounce back
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There I stood at heavens pearly gates
Waiting for God to decide my fate
I was still a child, though very sick
Hoping my passing would be quick.
Then an angel suddenly appeared
Took ...
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Categories:
medics, courage, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Butt out - humour warning!
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Bill prodded his sebaceous cyst
‘Twas massive the size of his fist
It spurted green pus
His wife made a fuss
“Get treatment NOW, I must insist”
Blue lighted to the A & E
Huge ...
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Categories:
medics, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Contemplations For Joanna
...Contemplations For Joanna
Propulsion forward through the entropy toward the finish line
Expulsion toward nothingness from a population in decline
Repulsion formed at courts of corruption by th...
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Categories:
medics, life,
Form: Rhyme
Penny Laine
...As he gently pressed his lips against her photograph
His one last hope; to see her once again
A tear ran down his cheek as he spoke her name…
Penny Laine
He sits there with the roof down on his...
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Categories:
medics, loss, lost love, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Found By Accident
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Found a poem I wrote by accident
That caused me to have a shocked reaction
It was on 'A hundred days of poetry'
On YouTube, day one, for all folk to see.
Though I was not asked for my...
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Categories:
medics, angel, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Worship
...The sodium street lights
Your few striped freckles
The makeshift tattoo on my palm
A couple? Never. It's always been a triple or even a single at best,
A circle of medics healing medics.
This di...
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Categories:
medics, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Augury
...Augury;
a sign of what will happen in the future; an omen:
Complacent the night lays above,
Unsure what the darkness lies of
Corners, cracks, and fields
Lies only the beasts that yield
Befor...
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Categories:
medics, allusion, future,
Form: Rhyme
BABY LAUNCHING PAD BUS
...Cross Country Greyhound Bus
Very young 17 Year Old’s Couple as such
The young woman started throughout having labor pains
The Father too be felt worried and wanted to hurry
It was a small town th...
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Categories:
medics, anxiety, baby, birth, care,
Form: Free verse
Laura Norder 2 - New Balls Please
...Laura Norder took her gun and strapped it to her thigh
The skirt she wore was so damned short she had to strap it high
And stood there on the corner where the street lamps dare not tread
She waite...
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Categories:
medics, courage,
Form: Narrative
His Right Leg
...A ticket pinned to the thigh reserves it,
the whole cadaver is parceled off - of course.
Legs are a late harvest, these often-indigent parts
carry a visual poverty long after the body is plucked.
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Categories:
medics, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Safe guarding gods children arch dioceses of Milwaukee
...The many blessings taking classes at Saint Marks Catholic Church safe guarding gods children arch dioceses of Milwaukee raising my granddaughter from walking my pre schooler to our lady of mount Carm...
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Categories:
medics, allah, christian,
Form: Qawwali
How Their Eyes Danced With Darkness
...We had a desert mission
Just north of us in Zarghun Shahr
But little did we know that day
We wouldn’t get that far.
We did not doubt the intel
That led us up the road of dust;
an IED exploded,
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Categories:
medics, war,
Form: Rhyme
HUMPTY'S RETURN
...HUMPTY’S RETURN
When poor Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall,
The Eggsperts all gave him no hope at all.
No one could put him together again,
Not the king’s horses nor all the kin...
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Categories:
medics, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Flipping My Lid
...It’s been a hard day but there’s no laws to say
That I can’t settle down with a gin
Late night R & R with an hour of TV
And then I will maybe turn in
The gin… that was easy, just spin that scre...
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Categories:
medics, anger, drink,
Form: Rhyme
You were always on my mind
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One day you were sadly taken away
So extremely ill you were, you couldn't stay
I could not be with you, Covid was rife
For three months I missed the love of my life.
I feared the wors...
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Categories:
medics, care, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
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