Soft Designs: Ramblings of the Interim Pictures & Poems

By Martin Gelman

AFTER A CHANCE circumstance, Martin Gelman reconnects with his first wife of over forty years ago. The trick is, he is an admired doctor and married, and thousands of miles away. This is that journey, sublimated in poetry and pictures, destined to unfold in real time, with each installment of Soft Designs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664132887

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Soft

Designs

Ramblings of the Interim

Pictures & Poems

Book Three

Martin Gelman

Copyright © 2020 by Martin Gelman. 805446

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Rev. date: 11/27/2020

Contents

Author Bio

23 million packages stolen so far

54 degrees

Then the direction

70 heart beats per minute

365 days per year

A 10-

A bleak look into this day

A cabin in the woods

A fine gesture

A glance at the calendar

A new record for drug overdoses

A quiet morning

A quieter morning

A sister

Abiding love

Actions speak louder than words

All coming down to the station

Altruism

American Indians

Another murder

Another sparkling day

Anticipate

Aquaporins

Are Jews always remorse

Are Turkish baths

As I slide into bed

As in

As we get older

Asking congress to release funds

Attending a meeting

Back pain

Be outrageous

Be you

Beauty comes up everywhere

Beauty surrounds us

Behemoths scare others

Bello Borax

Bingo

Birds chirping

Boston Globe

Boston

Bow to the tortoise

Buds coming out

Buds

Can one soul

Can two lives be better than one

Can we get so into our heads

Cancer is personal

Cancer

Caring for a loved one 24/7

Catching someone watering their plants

Cell phone invented-1973

Change is the master

Chatting away

Chilly

Christmas is here in so many ways

Circumstances

Clarity comes

Cleo met Patra on the launch

Clouds move slowly

Clouds slowly dancing

Coffee drinking

Cold morning

Come to my house

Come with me my Fair maiden

Conflicting memories

Containment

Contentment

Continued activity every day

Cool brisk lovely wind

Corona Corona

Could I love the notion of who I love

Could this be the first morning of a new life

Could we live apart

Courage is not the absence of fear

Courage is thinking thoughts

Courage

Creation

Dancing alone

Dear God

Dear John McCain,

My Dearest,

Dear universe

To My Dear Wife

Death came into my mind just now

Death destruction and rebirth

Death is a finality

Death should not be greeted

Delia oh Delia

Deliverance from evil

Detroit

Did it again

Did little bo peep

Did you know

Diligence is due

Discovery

Dismissed by love

Do everything

Do I think of you

Addendum to bio

Soft

Designs

Author Bio

DR. MARTIN L. GELMAN is board certified with more than 40 years of experience in internal medicine and nephrology. He is US News and World Report Top Doctor for the last seven years and recently created a new approval to healthcare with the innovative Health & Healing Network. He has also recently embraced a latent but longstanding love of poetry, his first voluminous work lost in transit during a stint in the army during the Vietnam War. Dr. Gelman lives, works, takes pictures and writes in Massachusetts.

DR. MARTIN L. GELMAN is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology with offices in Milford, Malden and Brighton, Massachusetts. He brings more than 40 years of experience and caring to Greater Boston Medical Associates. He is a US News and World Report Top Doctor for the last seven years. Dr. Gelman was awarded a grant from the pharmaceutical industry to study causes, effects, and treatment of proteinuria. With the creation of the new, innovative Health & Healing Network, Dr. Gelman can now take you from sick to healthy, and on to always healthier.

In addition to these medical credentials, Martin Gelman has had a longstanding love of poetry which began in high school and continued through college at Indiana University. There he started writing poetry in his free time and penned enough poems for a small book. This continued in medical school albeit at a lesser pace than college and slowed to a stop during house officer training. After residency at USC LAC Medical Center, he entered the army for a stint in Vietnam. The poetry book was placed in storage with the army and was never to be seen again. This loss dispirited his poetic interests and he went on to his medical career.

Forty years passed and upon a chance circumstance reintroduced by an old friend, the poetry bug that seemed to be hidden was magically awakened. As a result, these poems and pictures are to be shared by whomever sees them for they are an attempt to put on paper whatever feelings arose from this circumstance and should be enjoyed in a quiet comfortable place, to let the imagination freely associate any personal familiarity on may have with these written words. Feel free to sit and enjoy the tour through another’s observation and discuss these feelings with others with whom you are comfortable.

Thank you.

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23 million packages stolen so far

With 2 days to go

Where do people decide

It’s ok to do harm

It’s ok to steal

Doing good

Doing bad

Where is the fork in the road

Do they laugh

When they screw others

Is it a joke

Or a business

Or how do you build

When you tear down

The fix is in their heads

Find a thief

Inject their head

With serum

That cures the thinking

Doing harm

Not tolerated

Putting them away

On a shelf

For half their life

A pitied waste

Expensive with no return on investment

A better way is needed

Truth serum

ECT

Extinction

Reeducation

Redirected synapses

In a redirected brain

Some better way

Unless we begin to better understand

The route of misguided thinking

Or the root cause of same

Good vs evil has been with us forever

It’s time we guide some research

To better understanding evil

In so many forms

In so many aspects

For its cost is far above

What we can afford

If we plan to save ourselves

On this planet before

Those uninitiated into clear thought

Allow the forces of evil and nature

To take their toll on our precious home

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54 degrees

Brisk

Fall

Cloudy

Just the weather

For a new beginning

Go slow my friend

Use caution at every turn

Be warm inviting caring and