Haiku: When Leonard Cohen Reappears in Your Music Rotation
When Leonard Cohen Reappears in Your Music Rotation he lands, dressed in black like a raven warning of your breakup looming Eric Dessner is an
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Haiku: Happy Birthday Friendship
Eric Dessner is an ophthalmologist in private practice in Brooklyn, NY. He is the founder and CEO of www.medmic.com
PTSD 3 Years On
Bruce Knox is New Zealander who encountered a significant medical complication during a routine ablation.
As part of his overall recovery, he has collected together a range of poetic expressions that I have crafted that tell the story and share some of the thoughts and feelings.
This is a song and the lyrics he wrote:
The Tightrope
Nary Sun is a registered nurse with a background in the
medical intensive care unit as well as outpatient settings.
What inspired her to write poetry is that “it helps her deal with all the
emotions that being in the healthcare entails from sadness and loss to
the joy of new life.”
Haiku: After the Laceration Repair
Phoebe Prioleau MD is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and have published creative work in Doximity, The Living Hand, Annals of Internal Medicine, and The Journal of Medical Humanities. She writes poetry as a way of holding on to patients and their stories and carving out space for them.
What A Life Can Fit
BIO: Monica Pernia Marin is a beginner poet and a board-certified physician in internal medicine, geriatrics, and palliative care. She is the winner of the Medmic Summer Poetry Contest 2024. She is currently a neuro-oncology fellow in NYC.
Peace and Love for Gaza
Basman Aldirawi (also published under Basman Derawi) is a Palestinian physiotherapist, writer and poet from Gaza. he has contributed dozens of stories/poems to the online platform We Are Not Numbers and other platforms including ArabLit, Mondoweiss and Vivamost. Also, participated as a co-author in a book; Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, 2022 and the Arabic poetry anthology; Gaza, the land of poetry, 2021.
Assurance of Life
James HIggins has written poetry his entire life. “At the ages of myself and my wife, there is, of course, some caregiving and concern that compels to write about it.”
Unsterile
The Post Shift Poet is written by an emergency physician practicing in the United States. After each shift, they write one poem.
Spring/ Summer 2025 Haiku Contest (May 1st – September 4th). The winner will receive a $100 cash prize.
We are pleased to announce our Spring/ Summer 2025 Haiku Contest (May 1st – September 4th). The winner will receive a $100 cash prize.