SIX WOMEN PATIENTS
Six broken women lay down to rest
brown bodies all in a row
six long stories to tell with jest
six smiles with a million tears
race around ward releasing fears
just so
Six windows uncurtained offers
six sunny acacias buffered
trolleys reel, pills and bottles steep
surgeon makes his rounds with a nod
six students in tow
asking six silly questions to know
just so
Six hard beds high, sigh-slept many
linen stiff as a new penny
squishy meal of mieliepap mixed veggies
making six quite edgy
whose next for operation table no-one knows
they can though still touch their toes
just so
six sets of eyes close for night
dream of kids, chicken pie, golden flights
needles, nurses, morphine gone
no slips on escalator or hip joint pain
they reconnect their own wires, abiding fires
flowing into Aegian sea as African queens
awake back in ward, still here
wee patients not free, see ?
Matron says ‘Go pee’
just so
Toto uncurtained Oz's stagey play,
his humbug wizardry didn't go astray.
In a balloon he vanished,
lone Dorothy felt banished,
on silver shoes she flew home all the way.
Filled with delightful sweet perfume - always opportunities to share
alluring flower
your uniqueness is dazzling -
tiny white bells ring
Beauty, innocence and purity as a dove
Uncurtained window by nature's love
Trust your heart, please be my wife
Lily of the valley, the elixer of life
29.05.2023
Anne-Lise Andresen
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A Monoku, Haiku and 4 lines of Rhyme
3rd place in the contest
- Same Theme Poetry Contest -
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
* Lily of the valley is best known in herbal medicine as a heart medicine
Through the uncurtained widows
Of life we see hope rise and fall like
A knife
Through a shrill scream
Of a darkened dream
We feel thrills
And hopes rising higher
Like flames of midnight desires
Only to awaken to the same
As hopes falling
Tripping down over lifes
Games
Whips upon my back
Silence upon my tongue
As my mind whispers in the silence
Of my head
Sleep please hold me upon my bed
For my visel feels strangle
Trapped between
A dream and realty
A dreamer who only feels alive
Within a dream..
Hear the silence whisper's
Within my head..
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