Get Your Premium Membership

Best Intensive Care Poems

Below are the all-time best Intensive Care poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of intensive care poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Angels Danced
Angels Danced

Precious child you were born blue with an apgar score of
only two, not breathing. Your mommy struggled long to 
give you life with great...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, birth, emotions, happiness,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member To the Fallen of Covid 19
To all the fallen of Covid 19
whose deaths were unrecorded and unseen
To those who languished in intensive care
where Fear unmasked itself to mock each prayer

To...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, tribute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Scars of Love- a True Valentine Story
War leaves scars. They are emotional. They are physical. They are spiritual.

My brother had proposed to my sister-in-law on Valentine's Day, and so it was...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, love hurts, spiritual, war,
Form: Narrative
Just Within Reach
The sudden fear of my husband's massive heart attack
doing everything I can to counteract
just within reach crying I screech

I'm by his bed in intensive care...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, blessing, desire, devotion, grief,
Form: Verse
Nurse For Better Or Worse
Nurse for Better Or Worse

Had married my wife for better or worse.
And she ended up becoming a nurse;
Not only that became an Registered RN;
On general...

Read more of this work...
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: intensive care, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Imprisoned and the Want For Freedom
Imprisoned and The Want For Freedom


We Retreat and try so hard to be discreet

Denied Intelligence, we're considered inadequate 

and mistreated with violence

The King of our...

Read more of this work...
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: intensive care, abuse, violence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Heartfelt Loss
I was due any day, had put on weight,
At an alarming rate,
But when I mentioned to my gynae.,
That my babies kicks were oh so tiny,
Not...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, angel, baby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Health Glows
Oh, dear; cheer-up, see this intensive care unit-gear
Bare now its rare health-giving share
As I dare God to grant my Dad His reviving welfare!

Diligent nurses, marked...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, appreciation, faith, god, health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Naughty Or Nice
Santa! Oh, Santa! Please listen to me. It’s for Dragon! I’m begging you, please!
Dragon didn't mean to be naughty! He’s crying! He’s even down, on...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, christmas, family, fantasy, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Valentine's Day
My friends have always hated Valentine's Day.
They ridiculed the pimply-faced boys
Whose hormone-infused offerings
Smell of Axe cologne and sweaty palms.

Greater the mocking of pubescent princesses
Who prance...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, cinderella, february, heart, love,
Form: Prose
A Tribute To Glenn Frey
Your words and songs they
touched our souls.
In disbelief, sad news unfolds.

In intensive care you fought the
fight!
On this sad night you lost your life!

Your lying eyes...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, death, remember, song,
Form: Rhyme
Icu
intensive care unit
may recover or  take leave
by those ill and not...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, life, loss, love, moving
Form: Haiku
At the Hospital
Intensive Care --
Gladiolas in a vase
In the waiting room...

Read more of this work...
© Jim Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: intensive care, life
Form: Haiku
Steven
He has the biggest heart.

He enjoys doing things for other people

Just because it’s the right thing to do, and

Knowing he made someone happy makes him...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, addiction, anxiety, drug,
Form: Free verse
Simply Time
With Crystal Ball I might have found 
Some way to weave my way through time
Instead I played without the rules
Did it my way throughout the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: intensive care, life, loss, love, drug,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs