The Ministers of Madness and the Surgeons of Suffering
Surgeons of soundless suffering, led by ministers of madness,
The dead drown whilst muttering of intolerable sadness.
Atop the tallest towers of the dark city
Aloft spires of insanity, so do they weave
the existential lies of mortality.
Where the living are led to conceive and so believe
That which is mad, continuously the surgeons weave
And knit half truths of
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Categories:
surgeons, angst, character, corruption, death,
Form: Narrative
Dreaming Physicians
A surgeon dreams of slicing livers.
A dentist dreams of teeth and gums.
Proctologists envision fingers
and thumbs.
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Categories:
surgeons, funny, humor, humorous, rude,
Form: Rhyme
Fellowships
I’ve only been at my fellowship gig a week, but It’s official, I’m a candy-striper. Sort of, I wear a blue vest, not the old, red-striped dress, but it’s the same job. I shadow my surgeon (Rebecca) most of the time, like when she does her rounds but otherwise, I study or try to be
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Categories:
surgeons, business, feelings, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
Surgeons of Sky
Just testing the night
The surgeons of sky
to see
a Sky-net so faulted and frank
unflinching but still true
Full of expectation and hope...Just touching the night
feeling the texture of it
Remembering you and hoping that you're well
like a stupid loyal dog
a stupid girl remembering
You're a shadow
that plays games...appearing ...dissappearing
I should never remember ....you
a will of a wisp
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Categories:
surgeons, destiny, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Brain Surgeons and Movie Stars
They want to be brain surgeons, astronauts, movie stars,
NFL quarterbacks, influencers, video game designers, dancers
Their excited energy lifts into a pink cloud of happiness
It zooms over my head and dances around the room
They share their illusions of grandeur with excited giggles
They are my Girl Scouts, and I have no idea what I am doing
Having
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Categories:
surgeons, life, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Bumped Up Surgeons
Hand surgeon, aptly named Charlie
Had a habit most folk view bizarrely
Each day before patients lay on his table
He sniffed a line or two which made him able
To slice and dice, hyped up head felt cathartic
Injuries presented, varied and complex
Imbibed biological Bibles, known reflex
Mere matchstick puzzle, bones twenty seven
Mirror met snow snakes, elongated elevens
Intensified his
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Categories:
surgeons, abuse, allusion, conflict, corruption,
Form: Quintain (English)
Poets and Plastic Surgeons
Poets and plastic surgeons-whittling away
adding here, subtracting there
bandaging a verse or stitching a face
trying to make plain into pretty
perfection just a small slice away.
A masterpiece is what they seek
A mountain of trash for every gem
cutting and slicing stretching and trimming
seeking the perfect profile or seamless rhyme,
but filling the world with rivers of gibberish
and
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Categories:
surgeons, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hands of Surgeons
Hands of Surgeons
Our friend Bob Lynott is undergoing
cancer surgery today at Duke University.
God, hands of surgeons be sure to guide;
Who we trust and on them have relied;
Now is not near;
Our prayers hear;
Give them things needed and not denied.
Jim Horn
This should be sent out to each member of
St. James Episcopal Church, Shallotte, NC.
Hope he will be
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Categories:
surgeons, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Surgeons
Believe you me, are business workers
dealing in raw flesh and bones
but they are often broke
because consumers exist not
in this world of flesh
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Categories:
surgeons, humorous, power, satire,
Form: Free verse
The Permacultural Brain Surgeons
Honey,
please don't even try to get me interested
in your Cranial Ontology Department.
You know how the name itself
puts my brain to sleep.
Yes I noticed your tendency to snore
when I am thinking out loud,
with tender thoughts about glial climate cells
holding up all that neural landscape in your mind.
Sounds more like Brain Architecture to me,
and I prefer my
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Categories:
surgeons, caregiving, culture, deep, health,
Form: Political Verse
Surgeons Call
I wait and wonder
What life will bring
When i am well again
Will my heart sing.
I wait for the news
Of an op to replace
This heart of mine
A new future to face
The surgeon will come
In a day or so
Until i have surgery
Home, i dont go
Must stay here and rest
Watch the world go by,
Try to keep smiling
Try not to cry
I
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Categories:
surgeons, health, heart, heart,
Form: Light Verse