"transfusions" poems
The reason there aren't so many vampyres
around these days is they don't like TV hype
and the intrusions of TV news crews. It transpires
that vampyres prefer late hours and like low light levels
because they're egregarious and don't like to be seen inebrious
in the middle of their heinous, intravenous revels.
Also, unfavorable reviews about transfusions
and the confusion caused by AIDS, at this juncture,
has definitely reduced the appeal of being seduced
by some crazed and gurgling Transylvanian
bloodsucker lusting to puncture the jugular,
or any other available vein again,
especially when you don't know if they've disinfected their fangs
or only licked them after draining their last victim.
After all, vampyres were brought up in castles
when there weren't antiseptics for gargles
and they haven't been taught prophylactic criteria
against such apocalyptic viral bacteria.
And if you've ever seen vampyres with condoms
on their teeth, you'll know what I mean.
It's a scream. Everyone finds them hilarious. It'd be easier
to die laughing than to go down with anemia.
Also, like everyone else, vampyres hate ridicule.
No-one likes being seen as the fool.
And the other reason vampyres are scarce now
is that there are so many genuine muggers, hoods, crims,
druggies, financial leeches, homicidal maniacs,
psychopathic liars and genocidal tendencies to conjure up real fears
out there, that there's not much room left for quaint old-fashioned vampyres, poor dears.
But do you know something? Even though they were naughty,
I miss their occasional **** I know it was gory,
but those kisses, oh boy. We got into the femoral artery inside the thigh. It was ***** But when AIDs came along,
that was it. Definitely bye-bye. Nobody wanted to die.
These are the facts.
So these vampyres were starving and they reverted to bats.
Did a midnight flit,
and that's the end of my story.
Oct 31, 2012
Oct 31, 2012 at 6:01 PM UTC
Insanity lies there, in corners,
Along with spiders of my mind
Their web it's made of irises
Of my memories left behind.
Memories, dreams and feelings.
They all passed over my beliefs,
On a floor of spinning ceilings,
A sky of autumnal leaves,
Withered bits of a decrepit soul.
Time is fierce...
My skin is rusted, hard as stone
Maimed and parched to the bone -
I need a pill, just one more.
Dawns won't pierce
My thoughts falling high
In a sea of toxicity -
There's a pill which might
Bring me closer to the light,
Far from its velocity
And its painful shards
Dissipated in pitched, soften clouds.
There's always a pill
And another pill -
To strengthen up my will.
Though, I will never feel
My emotions crystal clear.
These fake illusions
Will never cheer
Heavy whispers in my ear.
Diseased blood transfusions
Of my dreams becoming real,
The world has stood still
While I tremble, poisoned with fear.
*So I'll take another pill
Because I fear...*
Sep 27, 2011
Sep 27, 2011 at 5:11 PM UTC
had a picture of dad on my nightstand
it fell not too long ago
but landed upright
atop his shoe shine box that I kept
its new position not precarious
I let it stay there
thought it was kinda fitting
a picture from his older years
taken in the kitchen
looking up into the camera
from the task at hand
peeling boiled potatoes
for potato salad
my potato peelin' pop
morning sun shine spot lights that picture
warm, smiling, reassuring
mom's back in ICU now
transferred to rehab with high hopes
bleeding, unresponsive
cardiac arrest en route back to ER
x-rays, CT scans
transfusions, blood draws, ventilator
endoscopy?
colonoscopy?
dialysis?
quality of life questions
the more I watch her
the more I wonder
How I wish pop could tell us what to do
Sep 22, 2014
Sep 22, 2014 at 4:40 AM UTC
i cannot continue
to empty out
an already empty water jug
curled in the frosted grass
my skin is sliced
by a tiny sword
leaving this rash
of dots
all over my hands
hot air
and extreme defiance
has been coursing through my veins
i wish i looked as sick
as i feel inside
because then i could subsist on
giggles and green tea
and perhaps
blood transfusions
and
saline
and
exhaustion
peculiar creature
digs in the rocky earth
with a twig
meant as kindling
peculiar creature
is content
dwelling alone
like Pluto
once recognized
soon dismissed
i wish this
tea was spiked
with more honey
or more hope
or more self worth
i never understood the appeal
of flowers
or why
they needed to be given
in bouquets
peculiar creature
lights a candle
and prays
to nobody
peculiar creature
feels nothing
but
peculiar
oh dear
who
will
stop
him
now?
Mar 17, 2017
Mar 17, 2017 at 2:09 AM UTC
You're a blood stain on a wedding dress and through countless bottles of bleach you still refuse to fade.
I scrub my teeth until my gums bleed, but I can't get rid on the feeling of your tongue in my mouth.
I'm scratching at my arms because I promised I'd never use a razor blade again but your hands were daggers that cut out my arteries and left me bleeding out while I begged you to stich me up.
Your drunken eyes were bloodshot the night you drank so much you vomited blood, I took you to the emergency room, and in your hallucinogenic state you muttered her name, not mine, and I swore I would die that night.
My parents prayed and prayed to a god who turned the Nile into a river of blood that I would leave you, but I always had a hard time leaving a problem unsolved, and the blood that gathered at the surface of my skin in the form of bruises was my problem to solve, not yours.
The broken glass of your whiskey bottle left cuts on the bottom of my feet as I snuck out that December night, and left blood stains in the snow for you to find on Christmas morning.
As I clutch the photo of us all these years later it is my tears which splatter over our faces, not my blood.
My scars are innumerous, and so are the stars, and I would have given both for you to love me.
No amount of blood transfusions could replace what you took from me.
My A negative blood will never work for everyone but it is enough to save the lives of those bleeding out on operating tables with families begging for another day like I begged for you when you would have let me die.
I read in the newspaper today that you were found dead on the scene of some a drunk driving accident, drowning in a pool of your own blood, and I nearly laughed because finally the bloodshed you caused was over.
Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 4:23 PM UTC
My momma always warned me
She’d say
“Baby doll liquor runs through our veins”
I was making a family tree for health class last week and a third of the people hanging from the branches had beer bottles clinking next to them.
My grandfather’s favorite hobby was downing a bottle of jack and carrying out the cliché tradition of beating his wife and kids
Just like his father did.
My dad learned from this vowing never to forget what alcohol did too his family
My uncle he drinks just trying to forget.
My mother has a similar background
She remembers riding into town with my grandma to buy her granddaddy’s medicine
It was only until she was older she realized the pharmacy was an ABC
The “medicine” cheap whiskey
As the elixir slid down my great grandfathers throat it trickled into the workings of our tree
Infecting its core
Yeah my parents would always warn me
Against the dangers of alcohol
Don’t drink the punch at parties
Don’t be like your uncles
Don’t end up like your aunts
But what they failed to tell me was depression runs through our veins too
They taught me how to ward off being a drunkard
But never told me to stay away from the dark spaces in my mind
They never taught me what to do about the numbness
And in my house people are more ashamed
Of going to therapy than alcoholics anonymous.
How do you protect yourself from something already inside you?
You see those relatives of mine
They were doctors
Preforming at home blood transfusions
Replacing the bad blood with good beer
The dark thoughts with white wine
Until the depression swimming through them was too drunk to see straight
We nurture our family tree with PBR and Prozac
Helping the roots twist and grow so they can grasp for the younger generation dangling from the lower limbs and I mean
Hey we all need something to make the feelings go away
And they say alcohol’s not the answer
But it sure as hell makes you forget the question
We all need something to forget the questions
And Like my kin I picked my poison
Because I felt it
The liquor in my veins I felt it
getting warmer
Hotter
Hot
This liquid in my veins it gets too hot.
I’m slitting my wrist to poor myself another shot
It’s not what it looks like momma
I just wanna feel that buzz and my blood is all I got
I picked my poison
I’m like my uncles
A crude copy of my aunts
I’m an addict
Just not an alcoholic
Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015 at 9:39 PM UTC
There is a silence now that you have gone
Somewhere - who knows where?
A silence of your suffering, your laughter,
Your excitement, your enjoyment of food.
A silence of your telephone calls, our lunches,
Your family get togethers, the Christmas puddings.
A silence of birthday cards, Sunday roasts,
Shopping trips, seaside walks and ice cream.
A silence filled with my children's laughter,
Summer picnic days and your flower garden.
A silence of your dementia voice, muddled
And forgetful in your inhabited, twilight world.
A silence of your tears and requests to go home
To safety and your memories of a past busy life.
A silence now that you are gone which I fill with
The voice you gave us to fight on your behalf,
That speaks with truth and grief and sadness
Screaming for your help, care and support.
There is a silence now that you have gone
It fills the deaf ears of those who won't hear
Your sorrow and our pain, who dismiss your
Diagnosis and replace it with a list of lesser
Tick boxes, low scores and minor symptoms.
A silence that is full of blood transfusions,
Infections, falls and fainting and fevers,
A silence that gave you leukaemia and took
Away your life, your heart and soul and being.
A silence that I promise to break very soon
For your silent voice needs to be loudly heard
So we can all rest in quiet, everlasting peace
Knowing you're protected by God's 'Continuing Care'
God Bless Auntie Joan x
Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 6:31 PM UTC
I'm sick of these transfusions
I always have to give
You're always the one dying
And you need my blood to live
Universally you recieve
But very picky how you donate
As a universal giver
This I don't appreciate
Not everybody can love me
Not everyone has what it takes
Only my kind,
I find,
Can love me, and love me straight
No matter the circumstances,
My love never be returned
Because our transfusion doesn't work that way
You leave me dry,
To die
And burn
Feb 18, 2019
Feb 18, 2019 at 12:30 AM UTC
Raised in the midst of war
You stubborn, tenacious, little girl
You saved your friends
and lost your family
You rode on the top of trains
to make room for the sick
and the elderly
You met an American Soldier
Who had a big mustache and
a long face
You didn't know English, but
you fell in love with him
The odds were against you
but still you moved across
the ocean
To a place that didn't
understand you or
the way you spoke, or the way
you looked.
You had a little girl who died
and your racist Mother-in-law
crudely said,
"Wake up, your baby is dead."
You had four more daughters
Your husband was always away
And yet you had time to make
Hot breakfast every morning
sew 17 dresses in one summer
and never complain
Your daughters grew up
and gave you 8 grandchildren
we were your light
and you made us laugh
and taught us how to be strong
in the face of adversity
For 7 years you fought this illness
and in all those 7 years
of over 60 blood transfusions
and practically living
from hospital to hospital
you were patient and you never
once lost your spirit.
Even in our last day together
You held my hand with so much strength
though your body was weak and failing you
In your hand I felt all the love you had for me
All the love you had for our family
and I know you did everything for us
I miss the way you swear
your tenacious strength
your incredible tenderness
holding your hand
feeling comfort in your quiet presence
Even though you're gone
and I will never see you again,
I feel you. I feel you in my heart
I feel you in my hands, I feel you
in my soul. I feel you every time
I stand up to some one and tell them
No.
You always said, "I'm a rich woman"
because you had us. You told me,
"If I asked for anything more,
I would be greedy."
The reality is, we were all rich because
we had you.
I am so grateful for you. I miss you.
I love you.
Mar 12, 2014
Mar 12, 2014 at 2:45 PM UTC
Blood pumping through our veins,
Involuntary.
Two
Three
Four
Five
Cities
Countries
Nations.
Hearts beat simultaneously.
Beat for our countries,
For our people,
For ourselves.
The lips that form a greeting smile.
The flush of an embarrassed,
nervous,
excited face.
Old,
New,
Transfusions.
One pint will save three lives.
You and three others.
An accident that connects two people for an eternity,
Or longer.
Panting tongue,
Best friend.
Rough tongue,
Old friend.
The end button.
But they’ll call back,
Or you will.
No new parts for you,
Mother,
Father,
Sister,
Brother,
Friend,
Neighbor,
War hero,
Civilian,
Believer,
Human.
Say your good-byes.
We’ll miss you.
Sep 2, 2011
Sep 2, 2011 at 10:50 PM UTC
Look...look-e here pause for a second before the seconds get near
the clock is dishonest and it cuts like shears.
I stare into the sky yet I do not fear
even if the end was near, I would be in the clear
Like visions that are translucent, let's mix it up like blood transfusions
don't think too hard just say you can do it!
what are drugs to a man using?
I call it addicted, my logic is gifted I'm on it, you're just with it
let me call a witness...to this lyrical massacre
my letters strangle the pilot, co-pilot, and passengers.
There belittled by small riddles am the verbal ambassador
My minds pickled so sick hospice...not hospital
my rhymes ripple as I watch the clock trickle.
Time is the enemy never stare at it...and if you look for too long...you will become an addict.
An addiction to numbers...one two three...along with others
Countless counts of time equal a waste of time so pause it, take your time.
A debate will rise ...to take equates to loss..we run,drive, and fly at any cost.
But there is only one currency...time is the coin of all eternity.
When the hands turn they move clockwise with certainty.
the counter clock is unwise certainly.
because it moves in contrast with urgency...
Father Time what is thee emergency? Mother Nature's calling she waiting for the earth to speak.
Oct 19, 2016
Oct 19, 2016 at 12:00 PM UTC
Look..look here, pause for a second before the seconds get near
the clock is dishonest and it cuts like shears.
I stare into the sky yet I do not fear
even if the end was near, I would be in the clear
Like visions that are translucent, let's mix it up like blood transfusions
don't think too hard just say you can do it!
what are drugs to a man using?
I call it addicted, my logic is gifted I'm on it your just with it
let me call a witness to this lyrical massacre
my letters strangle the pilot, co-pilot, and passengers.
There belittled by small riddles am the verbal ambassador
My minds pickled so sick hospice, not hospital
my rhymes ripple as I watch the clock trickle
Time is the enemy never stare at it, and if you look for too long...you will become an addict
An addiction to numbers...one two three...along with others
Countless counts of time equal to a waste of time so pause it, take your time...
A debate will rise ...to take equates to loss..we run,drive, and fly at any cost
But there is only one currency...time is the coin of all eternity.
When the hands turn they move clockwise with certainty.
the counter clock is unwise certainly...
because it moves in contrast with urgency...
Father Time what is thee emergency?
Mother Nature's calling she waiting for the earth to speak.
Nov 29, 2016
Nov 29, 2016 at 8:27 PM UTC
Around 8 there was much confusion
testing and needles and transfusions
the chemo made him so sick
hard to breathe, the air is thick
he lost all his hair when he turned nine
his parents wishing they could turn back time
to when he was healthy, when he was whole
but there is much that we can't control
so they'd say prayers by his hospital bed
kiss his face and stroke his head
sing him songs and read him books
they didn't bother to notice the looks
people felt pity beneath whispering voices
gave advice and questioned their choices
when he turned 10 he was ready to go
their little boy who would never grow
he'd never become a man, never know life
robbed of a future family, children and a wife
he wouldn't get his license or reach graduation
never feel the sun from summer vacations
so they took him out of the hospital at his request
and he said that was the part that he liked best
because he knew it was time to go home
but they should never feel alone
because he saw angels, everywhere
so not to feel lonely because he'd be there
a whisper in the wind, stars that shine at night
they had to let him go, he was too tired to fight
it wasn't about giving up, or giving in
it was the promise of seeing them again
in a place where flowers always bloom
and little boys can catch the moon
they'll see him, they'll know he's free
no more pain and misery
so in silence they will weep
for their little boy who went to sleep
and woke up in a better place
healthy, whole, his smiling face
May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015 at 7:40 PM UTC
Why are all my flowers dead?
I gave them water to help them live
I hooked them up to IV bags
& performed blood transfusions
with my own liquids
Its as if they were in a head on collision,
in a 12 car pile up on a highway in August.
As if they laid upon the asphalt in the sun,
withering to the bone, they pass.
Why are all my flowers dead?
Feb 16, 2014
Feb 16, 2014 at 2:44 PM UTC
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Oct 18, 2018 at 4:23 AM UTC
i never drank to get drunk
but at times
i got drunk as i drank.
wondering why i drank...
i recall
a friend who never saw 44 at all.
Ft Lauderdale spring break
so pretty and sweet and petite
who could have ever seen
what a few
would eventually do
to you.
at least 3 rehabs
Betty Ford counting among them
you recounted how many
spoke of all the chardonnay
that finally got 'em.
at times i envied your easy life
or so it seemed.
new home,
new sheets and towels
bright white carpet and all.
successful husband
diamond jewelry
art on the wall
mercedes benz
and money too.
no worries about bills
to pay
jobs to get
love to find.
but i liked your VW beetle much better
and your painter's pants on you,
so chic and popular at the time.
your so sweet a nature
honest and true
generous and all.
blonde and adorable
the years took their toll.
i never knew the pain
you were going through,
you never told.
what an education
you did give,
when finally you
revealed
where you had gone,
where you had been.
tales of hidden bottles,
drinking on the sly,
hiding and covering
all of the lies.
the cops couldn't believe,
you could still be alive,
with a blood alcohol level
of 4 point 0.
how we grow strong,
build up the tolerances,
until they amaze and astound
each and even every one of us.
the years and the glasses,
caught up with you,
the first place you begin to bleed,
or so i learned,
when your liver goes
and starts to harden
and your blood can't flow,
is through your neck and throat.
blood transfusions,
they
helped for awhile,
then one night.........
well one night...
that was all.
a cautionary tale...
for all you college bound...
you never know which one of you will be the one...
who never sees your next sun
the next sun's light.
Sep 4, 2015
Sep 4, 2015 at 3:19 PM UTC
We will build Rome in a matter of hours,
Prop the sky up on steel and glass towers,
Stain the seas black with our need for oil,
Burn the earth and watch the oceans boil.
Inject the earth with chemical solutions,
Draw its blood for economic transfusions.
These walls will reach such an astounding height;
They’ll block out the sky and all the sunlight.
And how we justify setting the world on fire?
“All this was done for the good of the Empire.”
But eventually it will crumble; only ashes will remain.
And the Rome that we’ve built will have been built in vain.
Oct 25, 2013
Oct 25, 2013 at 6:39 PM UTC
A consequence of merriment and early summer
Warmth, conspired to put him on that midnight lawn.
Lying there supine, his innocent thoughts drift
Amidst the sweet pungent scent of honeysuckle and mingle
With the stale wine on his breath. There is beauty in decay
He thinks, and only death and beauty can flower in creation.
The supreme bounty of all is death and the life there in.
In the dark garden he dreams a little of paradise
Not the mistake of paradise, but a consummate paradise
Unsubstantiated, and free from the vestige of interpretation.
It is here where all else is shadowed and dark,
That he sees clearly a myriad of blossoming colours,
Sharp transfusions of light that glow from leaf to blade.
And he thinks to himself, as he dreams a little now,
Amidst this broad wash of sunshine all around
It cannot yet be midnight in the garden
Mar 11, 2017
Mar 11, 2017 at 3:04 PM UTC
change
beautiful child in a bubble, so touched by life
won’t you please come home?
a heartbeat holy in the method of conformity, of broken rules
raindrops pelt their cleansing transfusions onto your hide
how you survived the barrage of all your terms in there
the spitting on you and kicking your liver
they gave you everything not intended for your path, penalty unsought
but you were so terribly bent on making change
you wanted to run free
no reins on your breathing and untethered to ropes
you wrought freedom for the couch sitters from the toil of your blood
forgiveness never late
justice runs blind into the night and a bus catches flame
a knock at the door, two uniformed soldiers with a flag
you're at the wrong house, my friend
please go away
bail
a signpost showed direction and you cantered off, away from there
the only friends you made were the shadows on the bridge at midnight
when your *** got bailed out by even more hopeless sods
you have quite a story to tell, when you get to land again (if you do)
on the goodness of soil
a wooden chair on a stage, lit by candles on the edge
you will speak your words
the ones you never could
it’s been so hard when they always flitted out of grip
yet you are the one who will bring it round
hunger
the knight knows well to aid the sufferer
but in the dark woods one never knows
hunger comes in all forms and deeds are cloaked by trees
moving truth into obscurity
a matchbook sends intermittent sparks of redemption to level the fields
I struggle to see how this is kept together
bring me closer
child of the rains, step out that puddle
there’s warmth in a heart your senses have yet to fully appreciate
please come home
Mar 7, 2014
Mar 7, 2014 at 1:57 AM UTC
It's been 14 days since we last kissed
I turned into ashes, my body is missed
The poisons inside we fought for years
Transfusions of blood while holding back tears
In my last hour, no memories evade
I remembered with you laying hot in the shade
A mid-summer's night as the sun starts to fade
We're falling asleep, our eyes a cascade
Awakened at two with droplets of dew
Eyelashes in bloom, pale light of the moon
You looked into mine and mine into yours
Two souls intertwined as the rain falls - it pours
Our lips, they collide with the fury of wars
The beaches of Normandy kneel down at our shores
A tear stains my tongue, I've felt this before
Two weeks I've been gone, yet still I want more
I wrote you a letter to last your lifetime
One every day - long as you are still mine
Delivered in essence to prove beyond death
That I'll wait here in Heaven with bated breath
Mar 24, 2018
Mar 24, 2018 at 12:33 AM UTC