Going without Saying - by
i.m. Joe Flynn
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/ It is a great pity we don’t know
/ When the dead are going to die
/ So that, over a last…
Tools of the Trade
Warning - by
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
/ With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
/ And…
Nothing - by
Because she is exhausted
/ and confused,
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/ and doesn’t want to argue,
/ and can’t speak,
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/ she dreams of nothing
/ for a thousand years,
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/ or what the nurses…
Mum - by
We sat together in silence.
/ The lost look in your eyes.
/ Once they were like eternal stars.
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/ You were full of joy and…
The Old Lady - by
Autumn, and the nights are darkening.
The old lady tells us of her past once more.
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn - by
Mars is braw in crammasy,
/ Venus in a green silk goun,
/ The auld mune shak’s her gowden feathers,
/ Their starry talk’s a wheen…
Adam, There are Animals - by
There is a small fox
/ slipping through the fabric of morning,
/ still coated in a layer of grey dusk
/
/ and carefully placing his…
Teddy - by
for a child with leukaemia
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/ Teddy was not well.
/ Teddy had been feeling sick.
/ Teddy had to go to hospital.
/ Teddy was told that…
Twenty-eight Weeks - by
We nearly missed her.
/ This little storm of life,
/ could have blown by
/ before we weathered her.
/ But here she is: sturdy,
/ definite, pointing her…
Things - by
There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
/ There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,
/ committed or endured or…
An Suaimhneas Bruaillein - by
’S ann ri ur seanair Dòmhnall Buachaille
/ a bha sibh a’ bruidhinn a-raoir
/ thuirt sibh rium.
/
/ Ann an aisling no an soillearachadh seòmair…
A brief format to be used when consulting with patients - by
The patient will talk.
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/ The doctor will talk.
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/ The doctor will listen while
/ the patient is talking.
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/ The patient will listen while
/ the…