By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 You were stillness A Well of depthless inactivity Amongst the motion Frenetic concentration Blue dress staring at lit screens Beside you Not involving you Your stillness a stark wall Of non-involvement […]
Category: Poets’ Corner
The rock and the crime.
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Thank you for coming- I Have a crime to report! Only yesterday I was sitting here as I do since I first rolled down The days merge with the seasons, But […]
My Tower. Your heart.
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 The Wood of simple Words was first, the construction began Strong and supple built upon Simplicity- Mother and Father It felt strong and formed so much That first timber warped Too […]
The nature of joy
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 A smile shared with a stranger A secret admiration Quietly shared Loneliness banished Helliconian dreams Remembered on waking A problem solved Without effort Shared memories Of travels Where the destination […]
Flowers in the Dark
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Soft masticating, The only sound Of a mouse pondering -unknowable thoughts. The absence of an owl, Swooping on silent wings To complete the picture of idyll. But the owl had met […]
The meaning of Regret.
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Regret is anti- onomatopoeic It doesn’t babble like a brook, Or sigh, like the breeze But I understand how regret feels Nights spent longing Laughing at private mistakes Conversations never held […]
Don’t stare at the light
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 We shared an eclipse, Once in a lifetime The light fails to shine when it should be shining, We all laugh at the idiosyncrasy of hoping for a cloudless day […]
Make a wish
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 I watched you get cancer, And sadness became a sister to me. Each birthday became a goal But every time the cake came out you’d say no Wordlessly I thought you’d […]
Being made palliative.
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Completed my will today, Said good bye To the cat And cancelled the milk. Need to call my solicitor later And the vicar, I’m not religious But the family has always […]
The value of Care.
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 When I purchased my Toaster- don’t laugh, I looked -at all of Google’s best (Free) reviews, Two weeks I persisted In the search for the right one. At two weeks in, […]