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Catheters Poems - Poems about Catheters

Swan Lake Doom Dance

...In the midst of myself I see all a named through a blame of crystal ball garbage self imposed heaps of anarchic monumental fever itches slowly coalescing compost inflaming frolicking one step beyond ...

Categories: catheters, analogy, confusion, leadership, parody,
Form: Free verse

Nothing Has Changed

...One day I arose, December 10th I propose. 2019 was the year, I would experience true fear. I opened my eye's I have no idea, that I have been sick gravely ill as doctors would appear! Men and women i...

Categories: catheters, blessing, celebration,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

The Grave That Was a Heart

...I didn’t want to leave you in the place where you had died
The doctors heard  me singing as I sat by your side
And the people with cut fingers and burns from   the chip oil
Wondered what was happe...

Categories: catheters, analogy, eve, family, fate,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Dream Catcher

...The skipper had sailed quite a few storms and survived

Strong as a cross hanging over an apocalypse’s altar he

Had weathered all seasons and crossed heaven and hell

Tempted his fate and good...

Categories: catheters, journey,
Form: Free verse

Soaked In Blood

...3 days a week they travel here like the magi following the brightest star in the sky.
all kinds are here
pre-existing conditions
fistulas
catheters 
chairs of diseased kidneys soaked in blood.
...

Categories: catheters, caregiving,
Form: Free verse

Ill

...Sitting alone in the magazined room 
Reading health trends at our local GP.
There was a group of eight, down and out, 
Thinking there’s places we’d all rather be.

I hear my name, “Yes, this sho...

Categories: catheters, appreciation, health, people,
Form: Quatrain

For Mama and Kayla- Falling Into His Arms

...I have several poems up about my Mama, Angel Manassian. Mama died on March 19, 2000 at the age of 74. She battled with MS for most of her life. She had me at 41...a surprise!

Turns out, Mama had M...

Categories: catheters, mother, sick, tribute,
Form: Prose

Yours Truly, Olive Eloisa

...OLIVE ELOISA
    came from my Mama's name: OLIVIA.. OLIVE means peace: ELOISA means hale and wide

MY TRAITS:
  
 *CHILDISH
     28 but young at heart, sometimes still imp...

Categories: catheters, identity,
Form: Bio

The Hospital

...Monitors flash vital signs
With reassuring beeps;
We watch the numbers blinking
As our friend, the patient, sleeps.

Nurses jot their findings down
And residents confer.
Life outside those cor...

Categories: catheters, friend, sick,
Form: Rhyme

Heart Attack

...The catheters drip does not make a sound at all.
While the heart monitor beeps are most incessant, 
I lay quiet and listen to whisperers down the hall.

Though I desire to lay here and be convalescen...

Categories: catheters, introspection, life, heart, betrayal,
Form: Terzanelle