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 Say you have to go, Tell me, then I shall know. We left unsaid Always the words crouched Hidden jungle cats Between the forest trees of triviality Constructed of words and […]
Category: Poets’ Corner
The Tree That Stands By My Window
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 Hello tree, I was a teenager when I first appreciated you. Your greens were greener then, But then my hair was thicker So I shouldn’t compare Glass houses and all that. […]
Looking through the eyes of the sailor…by Christiaan A. Rhodius
(Edvard Munch “Døden ved roret”, 1893. Photo: Munchmuseet / Svein Andersen) Great to have a breeze. Without it a sailor goes nowhere. I just had to pull my hat down to make sure it wouldn’t blow away. I have secured a good position in the boat, one leg stretched for support and the other bent. […]
I’m afraid I have to go now
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 Title contributed by Miss Katie Scott I’ve never been good at goodbyes. When I changed jobs I tried to disappear Slip silently away before the party poppers Were popped. When caught […]
Quick thoughts on Westerns.
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 die, I won’t enjoy the things I know. But then I guess I won’t know, That When I’m dead. I feel like dying will be deafening But am I […]
It’s not about the antibiotics
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 cough is getting worse, Breathing-once a silent unnoticed activity Punctuating the stillness between sentences Now a cacophony of rasps and gurgles Such an undertak-… a challenge (Let’s avoid some words). […]
Poem: A New Year Resolution.
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for end of life care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. A New Year Resolution. Sparklers shine, smoke all around, Fireworks leap as corridors fill Manager’s myopically seeing only the bill, Desperate searching, no solution to be found. The hospital is burning down. […]
Poem: My bubble
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative medicine and end of life clinical lead, Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 My bubble Living in a bubble isn’t so bad The view may be different looking out but then, Who says that what you see is Really me? I only have your word […]
Cloak and Needles
I can see: a frozen nose and few veins in the same place. The bird without a beak outside of the window flutters and goes away. I wish that outside of the window things will happen without a bird, not now… His existential pain is growing like tree amidst baroque music. This is new for […]
Request
Give me the pills she said – promise when I want to you’ll help me take them all. I don’t want to shit in my chair, feel worthless, I want to choose with whom, how and when I fall. Give me the drugs he said, I’ll take any chance with science – if my skin […]