Teddy was not well.<\/p>\n
Teddy had been feeling sick.<\/p>\n
Teddy had to go to hospital.<\/p>\n
Teddy was told that he had too much blood.<\/p>\n
Teddy did not miss his friends.<\/p>\n
Teddy knew the thermometer was not sharp.<\/p>\n
Teddy was not scared of needles.<\/p>\n
Teddy said the medicine would make him better.<\/p>\n
Teddy closed his eyes at night.<\/p>\n
Teddy ate his vegetables. Teddy\u2019s small girl lay in the corner of his bed.<\/p>\n She was not so sure.<\/p>\n Her eyes were made from round buttons.<\/p>\n The fluff on the top of her head was worn \u00a9 Glenn Colquhoun, published in Playing God<\/strong><\/em>, Steele Roberts, 2002<\/p>\n Reproduced here with permission.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Like last week’s refeature, “She asked me if she took one pill…”, I love this poem and talked more about why in 2011 when it first featured. To read the commentary and Glenn Colquhoun\u2019s bio, please click on:<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Teddy \u2026for a child with leukaemia Teddy was not well. Teddy had been feeling sick. Teddy had to go to hospital. Teddy was told that he had too much blood. Teddy did not miss his friends. Teddy knew the thermometer was not sharp. Teddy was not scared of needles. Teddy said the medicine would make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25900"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25909,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25900\/revisions\/25909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nAs though it had been chewed.
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Playing-God1-111x150.jpg\" "\\"Playing"){kind=spacer}
<\/a>As I posted on Saturday 17<\/a>, I am currently refeaturing Tuesday Poems from the past four years \u201cby poet\u201d, focusing on those instances where I\u2019ve featured more than one poem by the same poet. I am also doing so alphabetically (by surname) and the current poet is Glenn Colquhoun.<\/p>\nTeddy<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>To check out the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill<\/strong> icon <\/strong>in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"