Category: Poetry
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Poem about being a Patient
Patient’s Patience – In my bed, waiting. Sickness, not abating. X-ray’s need be read. Doctors, not yet to my bed – Spend night in despair. Procedure failed, now where Is help? It’s after hours. Poor patient, me. Patience sours. – -June…
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Poem on Abortion Legislation
Abortion Solution – What is the purpose, please explain, Law makers, are they going insane? Abortion laws not solution. Look to problem resolution. – The answer have, I do not claim. For this problem we’re all to blame. Fight, you must, if to find the cure To fix the woes young must endure. – So…
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Poem on Driving When Tired
Drive and Nod – Driving down highway fast, Hope alertness will last. Want to get home to bed Finally to rest my head. – Busy throughout the day, More at work than at play. My head it starts to nod, Steadily home I plod. – Open eyes, hear rumble, Swerved to road edge rubble. Adrenaline…
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Poem on Doctoring
Specialist Special – Tube inserted in nose. Off to stomach it goes. Well, to stomach it should. In sinus instead would Wrap self into knot. – Nurses they try but stop House doc working on pop Call a specialist in ENT put up din. Makes my stomach to knot. – ENT assistant Large ego insistent…
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Poetry – Baby Boom
When my father was little, it was common to do operations, such as tonsillectomies, in the family home. He told me this story about when he had his tonsils removed. – Baby Boom – Days of old, when my pop a lad, My father, his tonsils, found bad. Need to remove them, doctors said. Used…
