Nurses in Spring
Marieta Maglas is a co-author in some anthologies published by Ardus Publications, Sybaritic Press, Prolific Press, and Silver Birch Press.
Nurses in Spring (Bop Poetry)
The nurses can drive a coach
and horses through the doctor's life~
smack-talk, crackbrained,
thwack, thwack, thwack,
a chorus of boos
and time for strife.
The nurses are not witches,
Do not have magical powers.
The witches can belittle
the medical skills. They can
fire broadside after broadside.
Catcalls are to be shouted
subsequent to delivering brickbats.
Their secret depth ~ a jest.
In summer, they love
to lie on some beaches' breasts.
The nurses are not witches,
Do not have magical powers.
Therefore, they are abandoned
by their doctors, but this attitude
cannot panic them. They continue
to play their well-known network
games and to flutter dropping invoices~
painted in red and black.
The nurses are not witches,
Do not have magical powers.
The mimic show of the patients
is a sell-out. The nurses receive
new flower rewards. The witches
can play song games like
"Ring-a-ring o' roses, a pocket full of posies."
Well, there is a coming spring
in everyone, in everything, and
in all the senses.
The nurses are not witches,
Do not have magical powers.
Poem by Marieta Maglas, France, 2020
The Bop Poem is the invention of Afaa Michael Weaver and can be compared with the Shakespearean sonnet. Generally, the Bop poem develops a poetic argument and has three stanzas, each stanza is followed by a refrain.
The first stanza has six lines and states the idea of the poem. In the second stanza having eight lines, this idea is analyzed. The resolution is given in the third stanza having six lines. There are variations for this poetry like a six-line fourth stanza that ends on the same refrain.
