The World is Bleeding
...The world is bleeding, from the inside out,
with a punctured heart ready to burst.
Call Universal O- blood donors.
They may be able to save the most first.
A rain of tears cleanses streets fro...
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Categories:
transfusions, humanity, planet, pollution, storm,
Form: Sonnet
Unconscious Bias
...Unconscious bias, an interesting subject indeed.
While I would never be biased, allow me to proceed.
Bias is experienced by dummies, crazies, and kooks.
Not something that would apply to someon...
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Categories:
transfusions, satire, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Stronger With Jws - With Jesus I Pray
...I
At this stage
My retirement age
I speak with JWs
Jehovah's Witnesses
I shut my door
quickly before
Now, I'm emptier - stronger -
I converse with JWs longer
II
Fine people, careful about...
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Categories:
transfusions, america, bible, faith, jesus,
Form: Didactic
Abstractions
...immersed abstractions
ideas form projections
transfusions resound...
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Categories:
transfusions, allusion,
Form: Haiku
School
...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...
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Categories:
transfusions, age, angel, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Bio
On Being Human
...I am neither brown nor white nor black
My skin tone is somewhere between ivory
And pale, like the color of the crayon
We used to paint flesh in coloring books
Those who know call it melanin. They...
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Categories:
transfusions, color, humanity, race,
Form: Free verse
Endangered Horror Species Zoo, Part Iii
......So why do we keep ghosts in here
when by the day many folks die?
Well, you see, it’s technology,
it tears them apart from the inside.
Since they are merely energy
all the fields from our gadg...
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Categories:
transfusions, animal, celebration, crazy, fun,
Form: Narrative
My Story, So Far
...This has more similarities to a story than a poem.
November 2010 - I was in second grade when I started feeling drowsy and weak. I would come home with unexplained bruises, and neither me nor my m...
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Categories:
transfusions, america, cancer, childhood, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Transcendental Time
...Incandescent illusions of massive transfusions
For we are all trapped in tautological time
There is no escape for when you awake
A punitive prisoner that has committed no crime
Silent component...
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Categories:
transfusions, time,
Form: Rhyme
Four Years
...It was four years ago tonight when Dad died.
He couldn't beat cancer even though he tried.
Dad died four years ago tonight at the age of sixty-five.
He received chemo and transfusions but he didn'...
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Categories:
transfusions, cancer, dad, death, father,
Form: Rhyme
At the Edge of the Precipice
...I do not know how men many we were
or how we went, what we saw on the way
nor do I know for what ungodly purport was ours
or what goaded us on into deeper uncharted territory
despite our tortur...
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Categories:
transfusions, dark, fantasy, horror, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Children of the Night
...Given are we the name of the vampire, creatures of the forbidden,
Driven to live forever within the shadows, or die
Beneath a wooden steak, through our black hearts of pure evil,
But in reality, w...
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Categories:
transfusions, halloween, history, holiday, horror,
Form: Free verse
The Big C
...It’s terminal….the Big C has struck
Despite these prickly heartdart lyrics, man voraciously yearns for a glint of hope
Incurable strikes the ears, accelerates to the brain, explodes into the mo...
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Categories:
transfusions, death, depression, health,
Form: Free verse
Doctor's Orders
...Physician’s convictions to poison their patients,
Procedures with Ether, cold X-Ray stations
A thousand scans in milligrams,
Lobotomies and Amputations…
Surgeries to transform me,
Imperfections ...
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Categories:
transfusions, sick,
Form: Light Verse
Humanzee
...We share 99.6% of our DNA with chimpanzees.
They are so very close to us genetically
that their blood has been used successfully
with human blood transfusions safely,
which brought on this disturbing...
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Categories:
transfusions, animal,
Form: Rhyme
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