Best Rehabilitation Poems

The patients often rock back and forth,
or pace as if to move away
from their frustrations, 
their situation, their self,
but the same always follows.
Their only task is existence...
yet such a heavy endeavor,
like moving through thick mud,
always messy and often stuck.
As long as they remain their same...

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An ox can pull a weighted cart daily.
With mirrored force, I grapple to lift my right leg.
A toddler wobbles in his first steps,
but struggling, we inevitably became able to walk.
Hugging the wall, like a child in the deep pool, I rise up....

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Freed* from addiction’s chains and imprisoning misery…

Rescued from bondage of liability as a disgraced social deviant  

Especially upheld by the Saviour with His transforming compassion-might!!!

Empowered now to prevail with faith over haunting rehab-rigors!

Deliverance-delight drives toward victorious life!

*Romans 6:22 But now being made free from...

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She gasps now, in pain 
As the gentle therapist
Extends her ballooning limb
  ~ In childbirth's pangs
     Ends always justified means...

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one step at a time stands still

                              when the ringing in the ears
   ...

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Every time John Bull brings the holly 
Out of the woods
I go where my poinsettias grow merrily
To see the fire glows
Red like blood in leaves defying
The winter's coming and the cold

Every time a spruce, pine or willow
Is cut down to carry shards of sun
Or rewrite...

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She was brutally raped
And sent home, her father's rage
Mixed with mother's curse
Rehabilitated her in marriage
With the rapist,à la carte.









Rehabilitation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward
Free verse poetry form only.
25th May, 2018...

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You ask me what I was?
Meek solitude sustained in armored mantle
a wave of movement never moving onward
a shade lost in humanity’s shadows
and nothing … before you...

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Out of water
Moses killed a task master
And hid the body.

In the wilderness
Forty years and reconciled
Called by Burning Bush

Out of the desert
Moses, the deliverer,
Set God's people free.

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A true Pharisee
Of Pharisees, Paul stood by
Consenting killings.

Killing more Christians
Blinded, thrown off his high horse
Sent to a Christian

The scales fell...

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Stories, tales...More truth!
More cozy boots; Its winter: super cold
Doctor prescribed me with meds: syrups too popping pills and no love potions, learned the hard way that life leans on you when everything seems hazy!
Falling down and hurting myself:
Muscles spasms and headaches to pain killers and...

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I agreed to do it
So that I can get my family and life back
Taking this step by step and bit by bit
Praying that I'll never go back to that

My family loves me so much that they decided to help me
To keep me from going further...

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ODE TO CRUTCHES

I had a knee replacement so I needed help
I could not walk safely by myself
So, I was given two sturdy crutches
And once I got them in my clutches
I walked here and there and everywhere
With more confidence but a bit of care
With physio my...

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Bob’s accident was not "too" bad;
young lady with both legs broken.
Driving on drugs, he’s ultra rad;
“Go to Rehab,” judge has spoken.
Meanwhile... she goes to rehab too;
Bev learns to walk again, wahoo.

When laws and legs guys freely break,
what’s “legit” walks off the pages.
Their lawyers give this...

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She pushes my wheelchair
   Rolling me past the nurses station
     Rolling me down the long bright hallway
    Rolls me into the room with all those machines 
 All I want to do is go for a...

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A little friction
Placed on our mind
Shared by the place and time
Beating against the grind
Willing ourselves to find
What's making us feel insane
What's coursing through our veins
Poisoning ourselves
Trying to ease the pain
Inducing trauma to the brain
Even though it still remains
It's the only thing we praise
We choose to...

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