SIX WOMEN PATIENTS
SIX WOMEN PATIENTS
Six broken women lay down to rest
brown bodies all in a row
six long stories to tell with jest
six smiles with a million tears
race around ward releasing fears
just so
Six windows uncurtained offers
six sunny acacias buffered
trolleys reel, pills and bottles steep
surgeon makes his rounds with a nod
six students
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Categories:
patients, character, emotions, environment, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Psalms 23 Patients’ Edition
The Lord is my physician.
I won’t be sickly.
He helps me to get my rest and much-needed sleep.
He gives me exercises to do;
He makes me stronger.
He instructs me on the best supplements
for my health’s sake.
Even though my food and environment are filled with toxins,
I will feel safe
because I trust in You.
Your wisdom and Your remedies
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Categories:
patients, spiritual,
Form: Verse
Patients and Patience
They take that patient on that trolley.
Echoes bounce from that corridor,
from talk, from footsteps, from that wall -
and from that misery.
That misery is a mystery
for the guy on that trolley.
He hears that chat, those echoes
from those walls, those footsteps.
He also knows what happened
back at home, with that partner,
that fight, that punch, that grief.
That welcome trolley
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Categories:
patients, angst, anxiety, conflict, family,
Form: Free verse
Black Doctor Loved By White Patients
The white know blacks who used a lantern:
Kazeem: Ray Hospital’s New Intern;
By female admirers surrounded,
I kept gazing at him astounded…
As he saw patients went down complaints,
Quick releases from Hell, no more faints!
Rather, a houseman like placebo;
Not all the time his arrows found bow:
Thus, Black Doctor white patients just want,
To the other Black Stethoscopes “Don’t!”
Might
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Categories:
patients, america, care, celebrity, health,
Form: Rhyme
Without Fear
No one knows of the great plans I have for you, spoken by our great creator.
When living in the spirit, your wildest dreams will come true much sooner than later.
The virtue of patients is fleeting in a world of must-haves now.
Windfall fortunes are prayed for yet it is like getting the milk before the cow.
Our
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Categories:
patients, adventure, anger, dark, light,
Form: Rhyme
The Greatest Gift
It has been said that life can turn on a dime,
with patients and perseverance,
I know that it's just about my time.
Many people procrastinate as they sit
and wait for their ship to come in.
I see sails on the horizon, so into life's
ocean, I dive, and out to my ship I swim.
I shall rely solely on faith
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Categories:
patients, good friday, social, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Conjunction
I have searched through boundless plains, oceans, and grassland of flowers and wheat.
All this awesome splendor has been created and decreed for the masses, from His and Her mercy seat.
I have scanned these vast ever-growing, complex, and ever-increasing, expanding domains.
I am a bright morning star and share the light of love and pray for all
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Categories:
patients, analogy, appreciation, culture, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Patients Ticking Life-
Like death toll the ticking of the clock
Second-hand tocs
To the silence riffs
In a physicians examination room
The switching the wall calls down
Electric flow ticking away patients
Tic tic tic seconds waiting breathe
If one is afraid to wait until death
8/11/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr 2021©
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Categories:
patients, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Two Dementia Patients Share the Memory of Water
Two glasses of water
wait to be touched by hands and lips.
The water itself remembers the taste
of Fixodent, the salty funk
of being swallowed into a body
so blind to itself
that thoughts have dimmed to patches
of slowly shuttering lights.
It is then that the water is their memory
it is then that the water can drink them.
The water also
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Categories:
patients, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sick Patients Living and Care Givers Giving
Life itself sometimes begins at the "End"? Life always has a beginning,and I am not certain about how "Life itself" will "End".Will you hold on to your "Life" that you have now to invigorate,and inspire the desire that the love gives so that you can live again,regardless of the condition that we sometimes find ourselves
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Categories:
patients, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Narrative
Patience Patients
Take life for every minute it gives
Spend time like dust specks gathered
Free your mind off taunted shadowed thoughts
Clean the mind unfurl coiled negative energy
Walk equipoised trumping rooted darkness
Rejuvinate coarse emotions thrusting chuffs
Run a mile and count the escalations
Forgo the tumbles and stand chin up.
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Categories:
patients, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: I do not know?
Categories:
patients, introspection, people,
Form: Haiku
Among Patients
Among patients, rude and peaceful,
Are born;
Singing a rare song.
Off in your alive moment as spring,
All things are singing and growing!
It makes no difference
As you are: stone over storm I go.
Because these things I accept on land of peace.
To think about all is one response what given you!
But different virtu, and specific fly all people's hearts
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Categories:
patients, faith, fear, forgiveness, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Patients
The clock ticks...
Faster & faster
Time flyes by,
How long must I wait?
The hour hand hits the seven,
It make me cry.
My face is flushed and hot,
Theres a knock at the door.
Who can it be?
I try to fix myself up.
My heart is pounding.
Will you notice my unhappiness?
Can it be?
Happiness, Love, Questions but honesty.
Everythings all right!
10/14/81
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Categories:
patients, sad,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Patients Dilemma
Its breakfast time
On ward B1
Wonder what they have
To fill our tum.
Cereals or porridge
He says without a smile
Croissant today
No toast for a mile
So croissants we have
With butter qnd stuff
Ate them with gusto
Is one enough?
But why oh why
Do the crumbs always fall
Into our beds
Our nighties as well
They make us itch
As though we have fleas
But if they say
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Categories:
patients, funny,
Form: Light Verse
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