Short Emergencies Poems

When youre foiled first time
ply the sirens
on empathetic emergencies
your pain first dawned
like the culling of a bird

When Lions escape from their pit
wearisome statistians ponder
on the risk analysis for folk

When Pythons  spoil your sleep
Slip your dreams
in airy onion bags
lunatic like
apron strings
when things go wrong...

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I circle life’s memories 
all smiles and emergencies 
a baby and a wedding 
all so breath taking 

a photo album collects
all my personal effects
a life and love creating
a life breath taking 

images lose their colour
as vows now start to stutter
life has a way of taking 
as breath starts fading 

circling my dreams in a web
my life, flow and ebb...

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one eight-hundred NOTHING

          that’s the number that you call

               that charge-free line to NO ONE

      when you’ve cracked a hip or fall


should you have dire emergencies

          and need some schmuck to care

               dial six-six-eight, four-four-six-four

     it’s for sure … I WON’T be there.









Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, April 13, 2023...

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Hear a siren passing by
And thank your lucky stars
Someone else’s problem
Will not cause you any scars.

For every passing ambulance
Has someone in the back – 
A hit and run or overdose
Or, likely, heart attack.

You see the flashing lights go by
And hear that plaintive drone,
So fortunate that you’re not there
To hear somebody moan.

Yet every minute, every day,
Emergencies occur;
But if that siren’s not for us,
That’s what we’d most prefer....

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The key got stuck inside the lock
Securing our son's door. 
We turned and twisted but
It wasn't budging anymore.

The locksmith took a bit of time
But finally arrived
Since we were, from that entrance,
Most annoyingly deprived.

He nailed the problem 1 - 2 - 3
(The cylinders were jammed)
And now the door is good as new, 
Just waiting to be slammed.

Emergencies are costly -
That we really can't debate
And that is why the bill's
$143 (dot) 88!...

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A GIFT A SONG
~~~~~~~~~~~~

latent in us all

the need to bestow a gift

of a love for life

we… heartfelt in song… praise it

endorse it… let's enact it

~~~~~

let's live together

a gift we hold… an empty box

please read the label…

for emergencies only

tis time… open… set peace free

~~~

the song of love

once silent… heartfelt passion

now sing loud… a gift

to the world of love… and peace

live and let live sing for love...

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Now COVID is ending, there’s cause for alarm;
The last several years, they’ve made bank on the harm.
The mandates have fallen; it seems they're all shot.
But Pfizer's a virus; it's coming in hot.
Pray for new variants? Or put life on hold?
Emergencies, fear porn: these never get old.
But maybe we've learned now: you don't mask a kid.
But when this mess started, none batted a lid.
If masking is virtue, and distancing too,
Then how will you signal when Omi is through?

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