Hospice Poems - Poems about Hospice

He blinks in and out in a wingchair, overhears what visitors say when patients can be talked about as if not there. People speak well of the dying, even of dying strangers, to him their words prematurely shovel earth. The terminally sick must be accommodated, penciled...Read the rest...

Sad plight in hospice Fed smorgasmord of drugs Left the great beyond....Read the rest...

We find ourselves with you in time, Thoughts of you are roaming our minds Angels playing music at the Gate Heaven will be Home; let's call it fate. Do not be weary or troubled, my friend, With words...Read the rest...

Mom With Prayer Shawl * In this time of sorrow We are reminded, that none of us get out alive Yet, I treasure the belief With remembering we all survive. * On my last visit to Mom She wore a...Read the rest...

Tortured by the looming death, Beloved, a mother… in hospice care Difficult for her to understand, she breathed A prayer, silently begging the Creator to give her Another day, another smile, another mile With the soul who she’d always known As...Read the rest...

And there it goes never thought it to you but it goes the breath out of your body the warmth it turns to cold and there it goes. my hand holding yours as you float in and out of consciousness the...Read the rest...

The Hospice I needed minor surgery, a place was found at a hospital in another town; a spa town along the coast famous for its many statues and water fountains often visited by intellectually inclined tourists. My wife...Read the rest...

I walk down this street Away from the hospital; Last place where we meet. None of us held true avail Over how God would greet you....Read the rest...

She’ll be leaving soon I see The ambulance has arrived, Waiting for another guest To take a long, hard ride. A malicious, microscopic serpent Invaded blood and bones Leaving this sweet young lady Ravaged, scared...Read the rest...

So here we are now together in this eternal circle around death's latest victim in our apartisan lives. We pause, each to invite a quieter humbling access to silent comfort from this ministering circle Each, and together, facing this our inevitable personal frighteningly human, naturally spiritual and...Read the rest...

His Limbo Soliloquy ...Read the rest...

I wonder where you are I wonder how you are I wonder if you are still here still there holding on to time the last breath the last smile the last laugh the final time when I wonder are you...Read the rest...

Round Mudville Market, foul air was omnipresent butchers rent fowls’ necks to make tenant's rent, the scene that was seen was most unpleasant. As sunset fell, we watched through evening light, as Casey mighty Casey held his...Read the rest...

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 the other colors Leaving the orange and the vanilla Neatly for others Who...Read the rest...

I performed a little entertainment at a teen age hospice. This lovely 15 year old little girl just wanted from me her first passionate kiss. I thought to myself, "What is the harm? This poor young girl...Read the rest...