Best Respirator Poems

have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you...

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I never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out 
The Sherbet ice cream

It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting...

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in this silence
the respirator breathes…
we did not know
his heart
was
still




*Inspired by Brian Strand's, Indelible Impressions contest. This was written the day after my 
Step-father-in-law passed away...he...

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GARRETT A. MORGAN

GARRETT A. MORGAN birth outside Paris, Kentucky
Inventor of Smoke hood model day respirator
Hair straitening combs, stop lights
Things for sewing machines
Yes! Mr. Morgan invented...

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joyful song filled my heart

courtesy of our family’s music man

even after mother passed

Dad was still strong and healthy

lived to a ripe old age

giving consent to...

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Respirator walls
Blinding flashes of blue light
Swirling mass of cloud...

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I was sitting in a white room at a table, on a chair
My mind was kind of fuzzy; I wasn’t sure how I got there
I...

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If you could've been saved, I would've been over the moon.
But you died and you were taken far too soon.
You had to have a hysterectomy...

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The doctors and nurses in the Emergency Room prepared themselves for the 
longest night of the year – New Year’s Eve going into New Years...

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The hardened heart of man remains
Dissected by each border.
Hoax headlines heading to the street
By chaos wings of bloody order.
Sedated nations wade in tar
As Earth accrues...

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making out a living will
how long to keep a respirator plugged
how much quality of life to demand
and who will have the final say

family members might...

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written 7.28,17

"I Didn't Die"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

Now I admit that I still have a slight case of amnesia
Because I had a slight heat stroke...

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Seeing others doing harmful things,
excessively drinking and using hard drugs,
I say this road is the wisest one
a very prudent individual could ever take, 
hoping that...

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Alberta Texas Florida …
We call her Bert for short
Was born near the Alamo
And soon brought to Port
Salerno in Florida … duh!
Where she contracted Covid
And languished...

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I had to make a decision that nearly destroyed me.
The decision was painful and it was Tragic Irony.
Mom gave me life and I had to...

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