Best Hospitalized Poems

  Dear Poets ..

My wife is back in hospital very ill.

Please pray for her.

I do not want to lose my Sweetheart.

Thank you all.

Ron ...

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Just one pack a day
she says she needs.

Years later - hospitalized with cancer. . .

Just one cigarette -
she pleads


Written 12/17/2015 by Andrea Dietrich
for the SOMETHING...

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How melancholy I yawn then sigh 

When recalling who I was 2 year's
ago just before Covid-19 struck
I was doing alright getting bye ok
But fast forward...

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Mirror of Memories

On my brown bedroom wall hangs an old misty mirror,
with a ghostly reflection staring vacantly back at me.
It’s taunting me and I don’t...

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I’m in a psychology class and as part of it we filled out several, detailed, personality evaluations. They said these were helpful in forming a...

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Courageous men and women wear scrubs,
masks, white gloves, and black net caps.
They, too, eat their meals from plastic tubs,
what's left over from supper scraps? 

At...

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A Devotion Poem, FATE
(Written for my husband, Jim)

My beloved and I, with our hearts not only 
aligned in love, but also in the empathy and...

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The first time I saw my father I was a year and 8 months old. He had returned home for a short respite  before...

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Xylophones ping the 'Orleans' Umbrella dance
You'll soon join in with the thunderous
Zedeco music two stepping through the streets  
While the rest of the nation...

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I'm hospitalized and there was a nurse named Jane
She said I need plenty of sleep for my health attain
She took samples of my urine and...

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We sat down at the kitchen table
Under an overhead light
And talked about my mother
My wife understood
I was the oldest, she said
Don’t wait for the others.

So...

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I had a little friend who left too soon.
Acute leukemia struck at age five.
His mind was so blindingly bright.
This earth could not give it room.

He...

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This is not Miami, the real site
of the sea grape.  This is a wannabe--
a biker town, a speedway town.  Not 
the fabled city...

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you never lose by loving, if loving gets you learning,
affection filled with attraction, for the quest of satisfaction,
at first touch it's dripping, it's full of...

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Wounded Sacred Dementia

My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.

My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an...

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