Modern Sea Creatures
...Creatures of the sea, all beautiful and fair.
A thought comes to mind, what if they swam in the air?
Would we swat fish away as we do with bugs
Or tentacle arms always giving hugs?
Whales wo...
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Categories:
scrubs, 10th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Rhyme
The Blood-Stained Glass Heart
...She scrubs the floors with hands that bleed,
her heart, a brittle thing beneath her chest—
a reflection of the shattered glass
she once danced on,
believing love was a crown
meant to fit anyone....
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Categories:
scrubs, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
My children, your births kept me on my knees
...To all my children, may you please be aware!
I don't always show it, but I will always care.
Each of you have been a great gift to me.
Your births made this man happy as can be.
Each came to this...
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Categories:
scrubs, 12th grade, appreciation, baby,
Form: Rhyme
Corridors of Quiet Chaos
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Blinding lights, the smell of chlorhexidine
Green colored scrubs, white coats and the strange red of povidone-iodine
A place where chaos and calm coexist as two sides of a coin
A realm where a...
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Categories:
scrubs, deep, faith, health, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
The Tears of the Wrong Woman
...Her tears fall like rain on a borrowed shore,
A quiet deluge, seeping through seams,
Staining the fabric of a life not hers—
His shirt, his collar, his cuffs worn thin,
Drenched in the sa...
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Categories:
scrubs, beautiful, betrayal, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
THE LOST GIRL
...THE LOST GIRL
THE FOREST GREW MORE SINISTER AND DARK
SHE ALONE IN THE DARK WITH THE UNIMAGENABLE PLACE
THE CLOUDS ARE STRANGERS NOW TO HER
HER SOILS ARE APART FROM HER FAR FAR AWAY
THE EXISTE...
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Categories:
scrubs, adventure, allegory, analogy, light,
Form: Canzone
Stain
...Hes only moving forward
Every moment framed like novelty
He scrubs but the memories remain
Cant wash away the lingering pain
If he's the shepherd will we rally?
Well you would choose to sleep ...
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Categories:
scrubs, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Necromancer’s Tears
...He weeps, assigned to mourn for others who
Had none to mourn them, none to say goodbye,
Those whose harm medicine can’t undo,
Whose bodies he takes apart each passing night.
He scrubs, a cleans...
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Categories:
scrubs, health,
Form: Rhyme
TWO SHIPS
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On many a morning walk I’ve seen this lady up ahead…walking in the streetlight’s glow
but she’s always been too far away…for me to say hello.
Besides walking in the dark the last thing I want t...
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Categories:
scrubs, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
When A Child Screams
...When a 5 year old child screams a father leaves
When the father leaves the 5 year old child is broken
When the child breaks the mother cries
When the mother cries the vibration of her cry makes th...
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Categories:
scrubs, child, crazy, deep, drink,
Form: Free verse
All things that scrub the ground
...All things that scrub the ground like an old musty couch I saw you there seated with my very abusive ex husband wearing my under garments wrapped around your head I wondered just what you were as red...
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Categories:
scrubs, allah,
Form: Kyrielle
OTHER TASKS
...You probably won't believe me, These rumors you hear are true.
When I'm not at my job, I have other tasks to do.
I don't care how long it takes,No matter what I think.
It's time to scrub those d...
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Categories:
scrubs, career, endurance, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
lying to live, living to die
...we had all grown used to seeing me in a hospital bed
but this time,
i don’t know if i’ll pull through.
my mother is a brilliant woman.
strong and tenacious.
i can feel her anxiety building
a...
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Categories:
scrubs, angst, anxiety, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
How Frank Sinatra Saved My Life - Or At Least Got Me Kicked Out Of The Hospital
...Up and down, up and down, up and down
I don’t know if I have any more energy for
Up and down
If the line would flatten
I could finally rest
A masked woman wearing scrubs
Fights my inclinatio...
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Categories:
scrubs, faith, health, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Empty shoes
...We all have those moments. Moments in life when you know things will never be the same for you. For me that moment was seeing Fred's black Pumas on the stairs after he had passed away. The empty s...
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Categories:
scrubs, best friend, death, death
Form: Bio
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