Ties
The squealing of
the glowing ties in
my bottom chest drawer,
ties I seldom wear and
definitely don’t think
much about, spreads in
my knee to
affect the
lateral collateral and
medial collateral ligament; affect the
lateral and
medial meniscus; of course too
affect my
patella, femur, fibula, and
finally tibia. As a consequence, there are
days and nights I can’t
walk and
I can’t
thank them all enough!
Categories:
tibia, humor,
Form: Free verse
A ticket pinned to the thigh reserves it,
the whole cadaver is parceled off - of course.
Legs are a late harvest, these often-indigent parts
carry a visual poverty long after the body is plucked.
Under watchful eyes the young medics
separate muscle groups, filter large blood vessels
from fibrous runnels, hesitant scalpels
seek out fascial planes.
The leg is devolving to scraps,
yet, ingrained in the tissue
I sense residual shades of a former life,
seaside postcards, old photographs,
perhaps campaign ribbons, odd tokens
amongst yellowed newspaper clippings,
all briefly surface as conjectured images
beneath a probing knife.
The gray flesh retains its personal history,
I imagine that behind the knee
there is a wife, children, and a separation
all spectrally etched between femur and tibia.
Much of the ensuing bone-whittling years
are demonstratively scored
across a formaldehyde and jelled narration.
The students suppose they dissect a limb,
while I notion that I turn over bloodless pages,
of an unwritten story,
and now the last few attached ligaments
remain as threads that speak at last
of a long journey’s end.
Categories:
tibia, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Quinn was on his way from School no sidewalks along his way, Mom was busy at work earning a salary to provide for household. She's a single mother of 3 school aged children.
Phone rings ma'am I just hit your son in my vehicle van I bring him to you? Huh? What? Confused, blank stare. Now on the scene at
the accident I surveyed every inch of Quinn's
body, blood everywhere his bones protruding
from his leg and it astounds me and I'm terrified. Quinn says out of his mouth momma van I get up and walk? This 7 year old enduring this pain at this age, the paramedic remarks "no". Arrives a the hospital diagnosis fractured fibia, tibia, never-ending operations followed by blood transfusions. Prognosis from physician he may never walk normal or no progress in growth. Grace and Mercy Quinn now walls, tall, and love for God is infinite.
Categories:
tibia, age, angel, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Bio
so DISAPPOINTED when my cheeks never changed to bears
What if the room is filled with elephants
Surely ponies couldn't be magicians
HO-----------------yourhorses-------------------LD
Not enough people chase wild geese
Feel like removing the water from around the fish
Was that read or am i miss herring
did you see the plate that lion was carrying
between a bee's femur, tibia, where you find its best bits
How much straw did you put on the camel
What about necking like a giraffe
Would a police vehicle be like an inside out hedgehog
Categories:
tibia, poetry,
Form: Free verse
She did not mean to kill him
But she did
A never before unknown self
Had risen from the bowels of preservation
He had approached her with a claw hammer
And something snapped
Possibly because she had already had three hospital visits
Black eye, broken jaw, bruised tibia, broken collar bone,
All accidents.
Oh no he would never hurt her
You saved yourself, her relatives told her. Good for you.
You are evil, his relatives told her. You deserve all kinds of punishments.
She was horrified,
Not realizing she had
This self-preservation in her.
The first two years had been wonderful before the beatings began.
She grieved those two years the ten years she was in prison.
Categories:
tibia, abuse,
Form: Free verse
The human skeleton,
is made up of 206 bones
By jove, they are hard,
as if made of stones!
The brain you think with
is in the Skull or Cranium,
the Maxilla and the Mandible
are for chewing bubble gum.
It's atop the spine
which has 33 Vertebrae in all
You're sure gonna break it
if there's a nasty fall.
The 12 pairs of ribs
act just like a big ring,
while 10 fix to the Sternum
the bottom 2 are Floating.
The shoulder blade or the Scapula
is joined with the Clavicle
How they organize the movement
Is another spectacle.
The arms have the Humerus,
the Radius and the Ulna,
The hands' have wrist bones
called Carpals (not made in China).
With Metacarpals and Phalanges
we complete our hand,
don't you forget the lower limbs,
upon which we stand.
The hip bones make the Pelvis
from which the Femur originate
If you gyrate it like elvis
the Patella is sure to break.
Tibia and Fibula
are there in the Shin
The Tarsals and Metatarsals
shape your feet as it's seen.
Our journey ends here
Let me take your leave,
Take good care of your bones
for as long as you live.
Categories:
tibia, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: I do not know?
It was less savory.
The tibia breaks and you
enter into unbuttoned dress.
*
The deviance was abusive.
I cannot accept the celebration
of skin, unwrapping small Buddhas.
*
When the fear recedes, I will
move around the words?
to seek the meaning.
Satish Verma
Categories:
tibia, art,
Form: ABC
This was tibia
The best day you ever had
Means bust foot forward
Categories:
tibia, friendship, funny, humor, hurt,
Form: Haiku
My Bio
Born fish, a number three, perfect swimmer in sea,
Dearest child of my parents, eldest of the three,
Born with a silver spoon, a royal childhood,
Romantic and lively teens, witty and keen,
By God's grace, blessed with the best,
Burnt night oil in studies, to later realise,
Education doesn't surely turn you wise,
Married to my love, I am on cloud nine,
One sweet son, reason to dine and wine,
Extremist, passionate and quite a lot crazy,
Always on the toes, never ever feeling lazy,
Travel, adventure, peace and nature loving,
Dear friends my beats tugged at heartstrings,
Corruption and cruelty I can't tolerate,
Subjugation of women the most I hate,
Greed and selfish attitude makes me cry,
Gender inequality a curse so rampant but why?
New sunshine brings hope, it's my supper, it's my tibia,
Upma daughter of Anand and Sumitra, Chandigarh, India !
Written October 16th, 2014
For contest 'Bio poems' by Regina Riddle
Categories:
tibia, crazy, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Joey Contemplating a Skeleton
By Elton Camp
The teacher told Joey to learn each bone by name
And that there were only about 206 of the same
The parietal, temporal and occipital are in the head
At least that’s what the biology teacher then said
The atlas and axis are two bones found in the neck
Twelve vertebrae are attached to ribs if you check
Lumbar, sacrum and their parts learn without fail
And don’t forget the coccyx that looks like a tail
Of the maxillae and mandible the jaws are made
Collar bone is the clavicle; scapula shoulder blade
Humerus in upper arm, ulna below, radius thumb side
And in wrist and hand carpals & metacarpals reside
Phalanges are found in both the fingers and the toes
The femur, patella, tibia and fibula in the leg goes
But this is only a small sample of what Joey must learn
If an excellent grade in his biology class he will earn
Categories:
tibia, educationteacher, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
The frog jumps from pool to puddle...
brain-death spark
exhibits its unconscious species net
no more heartbeats
the cold amphibious skin is icy...
scalpel drill claw tweezers
cuts butter-like biceps
triceps tympanum
that will spend the night
in the formol thrash can...
radius tibia will be eternal
in the skeleton stand...
hyperclean surgical gloves
among soap pumps
clean hands
all sterile
one or two tears
a small dignified silence
and all has ended
Categories:
tibia, philosophy
Form: Free verse