Heartfelt Haiku
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By Donors & Friends of SBC
Last year for Valentine’s Day, we asked you to write haiku poems for those closest to your heart. The response was better than anticipated so we asked for your poems again this year, this time to be written about donating blood and the patients who are fortunate to receive it. In addition to sharing them below, we’ve turned your three-line works of “heart” into cards, to be delivered to patients at the Palo Alto VA Hospital later this week.
Thank you to everyone who participated this year! Here are the submissions, in no particular order:
We are all human
My blood I give with kindness
Happy thoughts of unseen smiles
– Shannon Weaver
Life force rushes forth
Benefiting those in need
Then, replenishes
– Kimberly Cope
Hope you are infused
With love, light, laughter, and hope
As well as this blood
– Anne Wiley
When you hear stories
Of folks who have needed blood
You want to donate
– Josette Walian
Between life and death
our home and the hospital
We smile and we cry ❤
I went for treatment
And I was prescribed haiku
Now I feel so fine
– Jeff Bravo
Pinch! Relax, wait, dream
Life river flows from my arm
Blind love gift binds us
– Mark Papamarcos
Happy to donate BLOOD
Makes me feel good about GIVING
Patients longer LIFE
– Jerry Childers
A small prick in arm
is all it takes to really
make a difference
Just a little bit
means a great deal to someone
It’s only my blood
– Leslie C. Gordon
Her face in my mind
The chemo killing her cells
The blood restoring
– Donna Andresen Araiza
A few minutes in a chair
My gift to you
Good karma for me (and POG)
– Gary Davis
Liquid red lasso
A quoit knotted by the heart
Rescues a stranger
– George Krompacky
Love is in the air
New blood is in the veins
There is ebb and flow – all is well!
– Karen Kneedler
Life’s rhythm and blues
Sharing blood ensures new life
Pumping love and soul
– Antonio Nuñez
My blood is now yours
Dear friend, we are connected
Sharing cherished life
One gives, one receives
New blood, energy and life
Let’s all seize the day!
– America Reyes
Platelets and plasma
It’s all golden
Small gift for POG
– Dominic Wang
Saturday mornings
Drive to the Center
Platelets to save lives
– Dennis Feick