Surgical Poems

Discern choice anew
Curb contagious flair;
Bear home isolation

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Deadly disease strain
Global pandemic;
Lockdowns, lockout

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Chaotic uncertainty
Disruptions everywhere;
Normalcy devastated

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Fear strangles
Panic erupts;
Empty shop shelves

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Coronavirus outbreak
Pneumonia strangles;
A deadly frontier

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Social distancing
Sea of surgical masks;
Fear hounds panic

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Bad news anchors
Tragedy gains currency;
Death and suffering

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Dire consequences
Desperate circumstances;
Coronavirus apathy!

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Be humble yet
Pray for...Read More

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Till I discovered me
I was a lab-rat in our home
Your surgical blade left prints 
of your brutality on my fragile skin 
My body like a dancehall knew different beats.
Beat of slaps that put out the 
light in my eyes, of...Read More

a surgical mask

to catch pandemic screams

     false face smiles and nods


*********
(liar)
...Read More

Villanelle: Alright guys: Heave and Ho! And let it go

(Confinement to one’s home though fines during « outings" add to revenue, private companies take orders from far-flung lands for masks, gloves and ventilators and protective surgical equipment when the Chinese...Read More

Ageing, sooner or later betrays us
and vanity, supposedly, saves us.
Men, less so, but women especially,
fall prey to its superficiality
with measures used no better than
the least skilled mortician,
and the end results are about
as good as any corpse laid out.
It’s all but...Read More

I’m in the blood, running through your veins,
Taken for granted, but there just the same,
The fabric that holds all things together,
From the genesis of our cosmos, I came. 

Without me the world, would fall to pieces 
Universe itself, could provide...Read More

Real heroes...sacrifice their lives...
Giving protection and peace in our hives..
Secular country,lost wealth of 42 warriors...
Leaving their families with heavy heart,
Almighty showers blessing in heaven.
Devastation of silent Pulwama with violence,
Changed Valentine day to black day...
Brought lump in our throat no way..
Bloods...Read More

For three hundred thousand, of five billion years,
A fact never challenged by science or fears;
Upright Homo-Sapiens, embodied two genders,
Each body clearly favoring, the other body’s splendor.

But alas as we humans, have improved and evolved,
We decided old constructs, should now be...Read More

WARNING: THE CONTENTS OF THS POEM MAY BE
DANGEROUS TO YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING

(Photo of the Two Lovers is available on contest site),

As any physical therapist worth his salt will tell you
   These two wannabee lovers are inviting...Read More

At the age of 13 he experienced the great depression,
and that event helped shape his social conscience.
Even as a child he could clearly see all of the resources were still available,
but people didn't have money, purchasing power to put food...Read More

You cut my heart out

  A surgical procedure

      ~ Never recovered...Read More

Northern sunshine spotlit arm
Shoulder covered, summer fabric
Vogue presented picture

Paper thin skin: soft, precious
Veins, arteries proudly displayed
Rivers that fill oceans

Hands enduringly closed
Phalanges bent awry
Nimble surgical instrument
...Read More

Your chocolate teeth will be rotting you little cheeky devil

But I’ll take this mischievous ‘treat’ to a much higher level

Spike the candy bars with castor oil and laxative suspension

You’ll wish the loo was closer and for a surgical bowel extension

We’re...Read More

      I write poetry
   of minimalist essence
   surgical metrics...Read More

Cold hands of the doctor in gloves and mask
lay her on the hard surgical metal table.
A numb sensation travels down arm to wrist.
Sedation spreads to an EGREGIOUS sin. 
Breathing deep through monitored heart rate
eyelids weigh down in heavy haze.
Frills of...Read More

I turn back pages of memories,
I see the faces of mom and thee,
She plays the uke and its melodies,
Both sing along, harmoniously,

Shakespeare knew of thee, called out your name,
Verbatim in detail, all the same,
'Twas not planned, 'tis mom who laid...Read More

                A covert operation
              named surgical strike
     ...Read More

            Warmly dedicated to SMJ

      Three Sonnets Inspired by my
              ...Read More

when the flow is low
and you have no go
with only a pint of air
and no energy to spare
that’s no county fair

filling up with daily meds
daily weight wearing Teds
puffing uphill doesn’t fit the bill
surgical scars from going thru the mill
getting frequent...Read More

seems like ten
i had nine million thoughts of you
8,999,999,000 of them were daggers to my heart
the one thought that i held on to was recycled and turned into a message from God
it took me 3,650 days to realize that quality...Read More

Cancer Was the Match, 
That Set My Fields on Fire
Written: by Tom Wright
12/2/2014 

The path in life that I formerly pursued,
Whether aptly marked or vegetated trail;
Found most days all too frequently skewed,
So I sought God’s face to help me prevail.

For...Read More

This body I’m in is not my real body, 
I’ve not seen this body before,
I miss my old body, my reliable self, 
I want my old body restored,

These cheeks are not soft, they’re stiff and rigid, 
My smile floats off...Read More

When he was born,
the doctor said
the baby was a girl

And as he grew up,
the tomboys schoolyard teased,
she could really take a punch

Then when he reached adolescent age,
the hormonal rage of estrogen 
really started kicking in

He got so much testosterone frustration,
because...Read More

A crude tool, 
scraped out of the corpses of the animate.
Smooth frame, end weighted yet a hollow core.
With surgical precision
rugged strokes of intent forms beings abound.
Drowned by the tidal wave of compulsion
and espoused with approximation.
It’s function will be debased,
with the...Read More

Why must you boudoir bring me an empty bag full of fake?
Pinocchio emotions: wooden soul mannequin real
Your impulses beat a synthetic heart mood — 
artificial aorta stimulation ~ false erotic excitation

Making it so hard to pump up contrived passion,
when I’m...Read More