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Open Poetry #14

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Dom Mart
Member

since 1999-08-17

Posts 164
Florida

0 posted 2001-06-04 06:52 AM

He slumps in his cushioned wheel chair,
The drool flowing over his shirt,
No longer linen protected:
The bib was removed with dessert.

Nurse fingers numeric buttons
On the TV's remote control,
Until the screen is aflutter
Like a flag of light on a pole.

Then a shadowy image appears
Against the background of light,
And nurse shakes his bony shoulder,
With a movement ever so slight,

And he raises his eyes to the screen.
His head sways like a breeze-blown tree.
His ill-fitting teeth start to click,
And his voice rattles, "Look that's me."

Kit McCallum

Administrator

Member Laureate

since 2000-04-30

Posts 14774
Ontario, Canada

1 posted 2001-06-04 07:53 AM

This was great Dom Mart, very visual ... thanks for the smiles, well done!

Best wishes,
/Kit

Songbird
Member Elite

since 1999-12-15

Posts 2184
Missouri

2 posted 2001-06-04 08:00 AM

Very realistic poem, brings back memories of working in nursing home.

Cerenity
Member Elite

since 2000-02-16

Posts 2637
Escondido-California

3 posted 2001-06-05 09:20 AM

Hi Dom Mart,

Great imagery in this, and so realistic, very much enjoyed.

Love, Cerenity

"God doesn't have to be reminded that we exist.
We have to be reminded that He exist!"

(Writer Unknown)

Watersign6
Senior Member

since 2001-05-25

Posts 823
Hurricane,WV

4 posted 2001-06-06 07:37 AM

very enjoyable,thanks

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

5 posted 2001-07-06 02:27 AM

Dom Mart-
   Oh my...you've hit me right smack dab
   in the middle of my heart with this one.
   This touches me more than you know..
   Very nicely done..thanks for sharing it.

   hugs,
   ~vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2001-07-06 05:18 AM

Like this...James

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

7 posted 2001-07-06 05:28 AM

It's a shame that we have to go out this way......This is a very realistic portrayal of the golden years and how the mind lives after the body fails......The one thing that anyone has to be proud of is his/her legacy...well done!

The role of poetry is to utter the un-utterable; to open up
spaces of consciousness and resistance; to language oppressions; to
re-language historie

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