Joanna Daniel Poet Free verse

The Hospital Experience

Dressed in an ill-fitting, hardly covering green garb
Surrounded by wan white-washed walls
Pricked and prodded like a pin-cushion
Wired to a beep-beeping machine
Drowsy in a drugged dreamland
Maddened by mind-whelming medications
Pressed by pain, feeling drained
Languishing on a hard hospital bed
Waiting for this prolonged ordeal to be over...

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Kim Rodrigues April 27, 2026 at 4:58 AM Congrats on POTD!

Constance La France April 18, 2026 at 7:01 PM Joanna, been there, wonderfully penned and congratulations on receiving the POTD honor ~

Daniel Henry Rodgers April 18, 2026 at 5:08 AM Dear Joanna, Congrats on POTD, I like how you let the details do the talking, the green gown, the beeping, the drug-drifted fog. I also like your honesty, the kind that doesn’t try to dress the experience up or wring meaning from it. You just let the ordeal sit in its own hard light, and that restraint gives it weight. Blessings Joanna, Daniel

Supraja Kannan April 18, 2026 at 1:59 AM “Drowsy in a drugged dreamland” — how can someone in pain write this, Jo? Beautiful lines, but I can’t fully admire them… Only a true poet like you can write from the heart. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

Brandy Nicole April 17, 2026 at 9:24 AM Dearest Joanna, that doesn't sound like a pleasant experience. I hope all is well with you, my dear sweet friend. I see your thoughts were chosen as Poem of the day. Sending hugs and blessings your way. ~ Brandy

Paige Hind April 16, 2026 at 6:47 PM how awful- I hope you feel better <3

Me Me April 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM I see poets get away with nothing these days ???

Abdullah Alhemaidy April 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM Hello Joanna Daniel :-) Congratulations on your wise POTD! Best warmest wishes!

Karen Jones April 16, 2026 at 11:36 AM Praying for your recovery if this is presently your situation. Congratulations on potd!

Rachel Treacher April 16, 2026 at 11:14 AM So much alliteration here that enhances, with the use of rythm, a sense of a monotomous nightmarish vision of a hospital stay.

Ghairo Daniels April 16, 2026 at 9:50 AM Congrats on POTD, Joanna. Concise articulation of an unsavoury experience. I trust the ordeal is over. It does end. Sending high frequency Light, Love & trust main pain has passed. Xxx

Gershon Wolf April 16, 2026 at 9:03 AM 'Pricked and prodded like a pin cushion' -- precise pinpointing of the experience, or should I say 'experiment?!' Congrats on POTD, Joanna. ~ Gershon

Joseph P. DiMino April 16, 2026 at 5:24 AM Chilling truth. I have been there. No fun. Well deserved POTD. Congratulations!

Tania Kitchin April 16, 2026 at 3:54 AM Joanna, congratulations on POTD. I hope this is fiction, if not, well wishes for a speedy recovery.

Zyrool Gifford April 16, 2026 at 2:02 AM Hello Joanna, congratulations on your poem being featured as POTD. So relatable. I’m still recovering. Wishing you a wonderful day.

Beryl Edmonds April 16, 2026 at 1:57 AM I remember it well, three months in hospital at the age of twelve with a septic hip. The worst of it was all the injections, couldn’t stand it. Congratulations Joanna on having received Poem of the Day… Beryl

Unseeking Seeker April 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM That’s how it exactly feels as a poet would express it, as you so aptly have, Joanna. Warmest congratulations on POTD

Tom Cunningham April 16, 2026 at 12:31 AM Back with congratulations to you Joanna on today's potd honour. Tom

Valsa George April 15, 2026 at 9:35 PM This is exactly how one feels, especially after a surgery in a hospital bed. Hope it is not your personal experience

David Crandall April 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM Sounds really hard, Joanna!

Andrea Dietrich April 15, 2026 at 4:08 PM You described the experience very very well, Joanna

Kim Rodrigues April 15, 2026 at 1:45 PM Maddened by mind-whelming medications…I understand that! Feel better!

Paula Goldsmith April 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM Not a fun place to visit. Hope you are doing better. Get well real fast. Have a blessed day writing away...................

Joseph May April 15, 2026 at 10:11 AM They prick and prod you till your vains collapse, it's not a fun experience

Tom Cunningham April 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM Sorry to hear this Joanna, hope you're on the road to recovery now. Two years ago I went into hospital for a spinal op, I was only in one night so the experience wasn't too bad. Tom

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