Fleur MacDonald

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How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly...

Posted May 12, 2010 · 32 lines · 4 critiques

Was shit scared
with a dry mouth
just thinking about it
going into hospital

had to wake early
got there too early
waited with my sister
till name was called

don the robes
fill out more forms
say goodbye with photo
lie down and wait

wheeled into small cupboard
kept calm with Nurse

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the doctor distracted me
out like a light

5 hours later
woke up with shining light
loads of babbling
moved to ICU

bit of a blur
with a dry mouth
sucking constantly on icecubes
went into the night

two nurse bed bath
roll over roll over
finger on morphine button
let me sleep please

pat the Tumour lightly
and it will disappear
yell at it hard
it will stick around...

Fleur MacDonald’s timeline

July 2022
02 Sat

Anniversary
15 years of membership
July 2017
02 Sun

Anniversary
10 years of membership
July 2012
02 Mon

Anniversary
5 years of membership
July 2010
08 Thu

Received a critique
on Bated Breath from @whitetea
"Is this about a doctors waiting room?"
08 Thu

Received a critique
on How to Make Coffee without a Coffee Maker from @whitetea
"Psychic coffee while in ones birthday suit. I liked your streams of thought here."
May 2010
16 Sun

Received a critique
on Jetstream from @Esker
"all my pens leave me for other hands I enjoyed this write this poem without typewriters its back to pen or pencil im writing longhand again (cant find a vintage manual typewriter) I will go in search of this pen thank y…"
13 Thu

Received a critique
on How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly... from @Seren
"you bloody nutter lol I needed someone to cheer me up I been in bed sick all week starting to feel a litte bit better ... but I get the biggest laugh at you patting her gently lol ... more like throwing her from the sev…"
13 Thu

Received a critique
on How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly... from @judyanne
"'wheeled into small cupboard' those cubicles do seem like broom closets don't they? so glad you back up and well love judy xxx"
13 Thu

Received a critique
on How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly... from @the_fool
"i can't pass up a poem with real personalization. only YOU could've written that. thx for this one. had to nominate. t_f"
12 Wed

Received a critique
on How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly... from @magics02
"What a thing you went through and thanking everyone who tended to you and got you back up and writing. I read this, I thought of my cousin. I wished I could of patted her tumors, I wish she was here to read this to her…"
12 Wed

Posted a poem
How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly...
"Was shit scared"
Open thread 32 lines
10 Mon

Received a critique
on How to Make Coffee without a Coffee Maker from @lyz
"A nom from an addict, lol. I am so pissed that I had missed this, but going through and reading your last, I thought wow, another. But maybe I really said, bullshit, how slack am I. Lol. There is a visual in this poem…"
08 Sat

Posted a poem
How to Make Coffee without a Coffee Maker
"Wave your"
Open thread 41 lines
06 Thu

Critiqued
""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren
"your never late, I'm back again and just posted my first in ages, feeling lots better a bit to go but my head is clearing and making room for words...love you lots and miss everyone here xxxxxxxxfleur"
06 Thu

Critiqued
""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren
"I'm feeling loads better thank you, still got a bit of a trip to go..all good thanks again fleur"
06 Thu

Critiqued
""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren
"Irish luck goes a long way...and I still have a long way to go, but feeling loads better for it...thank you fleur"
06 Thu

Critiqued
""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren
"I'm well on the way to recovery... xxfleur"
06 Thu

Critiqued
""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren
"expecting anything less from you Jess, go give be some viral critique on my just posted poem...oh and it's Britney with 1 T alright, get it right...have missed you you ratbag... fleur"
06 Thu

Critiqued
""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren
"I'm back, head down butt up, loads better... xxfleur"
06 Thu

Critiqued
""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren
"for now, taking a break..but I have just posted a poem... thankyou and hugs to you xxxfleur"
06 Thu

Critiqued
""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren
"just posted a poem, thank you my dear John...still farting but not as much... xxxFleur"
06 Thu

Posted a poem
I Left My Tumour At St Vincent's (as if your singing "I left my heart in San Francisco)
"She went"
Open thread 39 lines
March 2010
26 Fri

Posted a poem
Bated Breath
"Found myself"
Open thread 21 lines
17 Wed

Posted a poem
Anzac: The Broken Landing
"The luminous glow of the early morning"
Open thread 9 lines
January 2010
11 Mon

Posted a poem
An Easy Ride
"This blistering"
Open thread 48 lines
02 Sat

Posted a poem
The Lamp Post
"Once upon a time I had a discussion with a lamp post.  A variety of difficulties, he faced. Some of those were dogs urinating on him, drunks leaning against him breathing a heavily intoxicating breath all over him sending shivers down his grain.  Bumper bars ramming into him dinting his tough but delicate surface.  One time a semi-trailer ran into him and broke his back causing the city council to remove his leafless soul into another lamp post.  I felt sorry for this lamp post as he told me stories of floods, cyclones and those horrid electrical storms as he has lost many a body.  I wouldn't dare disagree with a lamp post as he might cut off my electricity.  He knew my ways of wandering into and down to the depths of continuous roads to bottomless lakes.  As I wandered, the eyes of his fellow lamp posts would watch me closely.  I felt a sense of security many a time as I wandered past my wooden friends.  A sense that I wasn't alone going down a dark street in the middle of the night.  They don't drink or eat, they live solely on the human voice which drowns into their bodies giving them a sense of well being and a throbbing heart.  When no-one was around, sometimes I would slowly put my arms around him to kiss his grey skin, rub my cheeks and body against him sending shivers down my spine as well as his.  The wooden surroundings would get horribly jealous, but I'd take no notice.  They couldn't speak and tell the world of my affair with a lamp post so I had nothing to worry about, maybe if a human caught me.  I led a rather boring life like my lamp post watching the everyday life fly past me.  Although many fascinating things went by.  He could not protect me from the rain or rescue me from the clutches of would-be snatches.  The lamp post, no name, a serial number, christened by the council.  Poor lamp post."
Open thread 3 lines
December 2009
31 Thu

Posted a poem
Another Scan
"had these"
Open thread 33 lines
October 2009
27 Tue

Posted a poem
This Question
"I asked"
Open thread 38 lines
26 Mon

Posted a poem
Looking
"We"
Open thread 41 lines
25 Sun

Posted a poem
Keep Us As One
"Life is"
Open thread 35 lines
14 Wed

Posted a poem
Happy Birthday James
"His name is James P Gilmour"
Open thread 20 lines
August 2009
31 Mon

Most-discussed work
Weirdelf, an ode to a poet...

62 critiques to date.
June 2009
15 Mon

Highest posting month
June 2009 — 22 poems
July 2008
02 Wed

Anniversary
One year of membership
July 2007
07 Sat

First critique offered
on "America the brave" by @weirdelf
07 Sat

First publication
The Darkness of Daylight, 25th April 1915
02 Mon

Joined Neopoet
Membership begins

First poem published 4 days later.

15 years of membership

10 years of membership

5 years of membership

on Bated Breath from @whitetea

on How to Make Coffee without a Coffee Maker from @whitetea

on Jetstream from @Esker

on How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly... from @Seren

on How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly... from @judyanne

on How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly... from @the_fool

on How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly... from @magics02

on How to Make Coffee without a Coffee Maker from @lyz

""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren

""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren

""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren

""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren

""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren

""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren

""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren

""Attention Fleur MacDonald's friends and Members of Neopoet ~!" "UPDATE on the Update LOL "Message" " by @Seren

June 2009 — 22 poems

One year of membership

on "America the brave" by @weirdelf

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