Hospitalized Poems | Examples

Optimism takes the prize

we plan our future
but have not added our broken leg
Bam!
Ouch!
Things change fast

We begin to heal
filled with optimism
We can still reach our goal
a temporary side road
we replan, replenish, rehearse
Refocus on our future

Car wreck!
What?
We’re hospitalized and helpless
Rehab takes a long time
Depression might set in
We are disabled, disillusioned and disheveled 

Is there a glimmer of hope?
Can we continue our path?
Some of us cannot go on
These souls have not rallied, refreshed or regrouped.
Despair holds them down in the ditch of the side road

Most of us can continue
The luckiest ones find strength and stories in the side roads
Understanding that the goal is not the future,
The journey is the test
and the road we have travelled for a reason.
We are the optimists, and we do well

My Hurt

My Hurt,
My Hurt seems to still be there.
It is almost 15 years ago it happened.
I usually like to help people.
This one time, changed the way I am today!

My Hurt,
I was asked on Facebook to help someone.
I went over there thinking there wife was there.
Wrong, he sexually assaulted me. 
My trust, dignity and identity disappeared.

My Hurt,
I ask why was I the one hospitalized?
Why wasn't he. He was the one who needed it.
I do forgive after all these years.
He played games and tormented me.
This was before blocking, and reporting.

My Hurt,
I keep asking why me?
What did I do to deserve it.
Stay safe when you agree to help someone.
Please head my story. It changed me forever.

Leota wants to learn the Minnesota Charm

Leota stacked her new books in a fabulous little pile.
She was thrilled with their freshness, it made her smile.
Finally at university, she could figure out the Minnesota charm.
It was reputed to invisible-ize people, so what could be the harm?

She flipped through the table of contents, wanting to find the page.
Minnesota charm is no longer viable. She stared at this in rage.
Surely one of these professors could teach it to her though, right?
She asked every one of them; begging with all her might.

It is forbidden, Professor Doolittle said. Do not ask again.
Leota witch went on a starvation diet, and got rather thin.
Why didn’t you ask me? Her mother said, when she got hospitalized.
I did not think you would know it, Leota said, totally surprised.

Her mother taught her the charm and she uses it all the time.
So if someone says they did not see you, please never mind.

Meeting Eyeore

A woman I had never met attended a meeting at work.
Someone asked "how are you?"
She gave us the rundown which lasted eight minutes.
“after my dad died, my husband got Covid.
My aunt was hospitalized. Our son got influenza A.
My best friend got pneumonia.
We all got sick and had to use inhalers.
My kitchen has mold.
It’s going to cost us sixty thousand dollars to fix.
My dog got hit by a car….”
I could mention the other sixty-two things she said,
If I had heard them.
But at this point I had shut off my interest level.

Van Gogh Lived His Truth

Vincent thought he was a failure
Sold only one painting
To his brother
Hospitalized as insane

Today we consider his insanity brilliance
His works of art are going for millions
He lived his truth way before his time
His creativity amazes us decades later

Empathy

Most beautiful child she is like a paradise fairy
Now wounded and hospitalized in Adana City 
Belonged ‘anonymous’ tag she in intensive care
Heart cries much though she is not my daughter

Only six month baby girl whose parents can’t be found
The doctors feed her to save life though injured round 
Oh; what a severe case of unidentified children she is
Whose parents are dead or untraceable rest in peace?

The earthquake broke many homes and took many lives
Also taken away many names without keeping any tribe
On her bed the baby girl though smiles at us with black eyes
Multiple fractures, bruised face refers to a head trauma high

I live far from her and have nothing to do for her life to care
As human being it's soulful empathy and my five times prayer
O Allah; save the girl as my daughter and cure from all danger
With Your gracious mercy let her be a part of beautiful nature

-February 12, 2023


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She's Paying the Price

An intoxicated man hit a woman's car when he decided to drive.
She didn't die when her car was struck but her son didn't survive.
She couldn't even attend her son's funeral because she was hospitalized.
She lost her only child and she's also paralyzed.
She's paralyzed from the neck down and she will never walk again.
He drove while intoxicated and two people paid for his horrible sin.
That drunk driver learned that drinking and driving is a stupid thing to do.
When he hit that woman's car, there wasn't just one victim, there were two.
When that man became intoxicated, he drove and without even thinking twice.
A stupid decision was made and because of ignorance, she's paying the price.
The drunk driver feels remorse for his mistake and as he sits in a jail cell, he sheds tears.
This story is nothing new, there are many thousands of drunk driving fatalities every year.

(This poem is fictional but it has been and will continue to be reality for many people)

Virus Warfare

Courageous men and women wear scrubs,
masks, white gloves, and black net caps.
They, too, eat their meals from plastic tubs,
what's left over from supper scraps? 

At night, their bones begin to break down.
In the outpatient and hospitalized wards.
On the other side of the earth, in clinics around. 
 across the middle of the COVID swords.

Do not remove pricey clothes or freeze.
Their newly cleaned blues made for a breeze.
They have what they need to get the job done.
If you firmly grab your hand with a striped tone, 

Unfortunately, it was the start of a new day.
while fresh, sickening showers beat cruelly away.

Let Me Have a Lollipop

Let me have one Gladys our neighbor said.
Sour apple lollipop made by Ned.
She took a long lick
Effect was so quick
Face swelled up bigger than our queen bed

To our immediate untold surprise
She was so puffed up, it hid her eyes.
We called nine one one
Which halted our fun
Gladys was hospitalized, no big prize.

Outrage

Our state does not mandate masks in schools. 
Under the best conditions, teaching during a pandemic is difficult.
Teachers try to keep up with who is here, who is absent.
Reality sets in when our kids are hospitalized for no good reason except for
Angry parents who demand that a piece of cloth on the face infringes on their 
     rights.
God, I’m so tired of this. What about the immunocompromised who need the 
     protection?
Everyone is selfish these days. So much anger over a vaccination and piece of 
     cloth.

Hospital Sleeping

Hospitalized.
Like a caged animal
I hear the nurses laughing again
What is so dagnabbed funny at 2:18 in the morning?

Diabolical laughter echoes through the hallway.
Slapping its body into my room loudly and proudly
A nurse will be in here to take vitals in a minute.

I cannot believe they have to wake me up for this.
Hello. Let’s take our blood pressure.
Hi! Let’s go to the potty.
My name is Lola. I will be your night nurse.

Who the bellsl cares?
I sit and fume
But no one comes.
Maybe I have had my quota of being bothered today?
I fall into a tiny sleep.
2:22 the clock says.

Some idiot wakes me up at 2:35.
Hi! My name is Dotty.
You can say that again.

The Bride and Groom Were Giggling

I attended a wedding where the bride and groom were giggling
Everything seemed to be a secret between the two of them.
They looked way too young to be married, and they probably were.
I was the mother of the bride, and I thought she was too young

Even though she was five years older than I had been when I married
My husband kept saying how much he wanted to get out of there
But we were stuck up front, because we were the parents so we stayed
The reception was terrific. My sister kept telling me to stop dancing.

She was afraid at my age I might have a heart attack.
We are the same age, we are twins. I thought this was hilarious.
I may have overdone it. I was hospitalized three days later.
For pneumonia; it was the coldest weather I had ever seen.

We had to leave our daughter in Omaha, with her new family.
We are glad now. For we have six darling grandchildren 
And a son-in-law who has taken great care of our baby.
If you can, go to a wedding where the bride and groom are giggling.

Happy Anniversary To Me

Happy anniversary to me
Happy anniversary to me
Happy anniversary to dear me in the hospital again
Happy anniversary to me!

Devastation

Cathie, my right arm, is hospitalized for a bit
Got my palms together, perhaps the outcome will shift
The signs are uncertain
For my loving person
Devastation will occur if the worst results as I fear

Vows For My Wedding

I found a love,
I am happy that it is you,
The timing was perfect,
It's my chance to love, care and tend to you,
You are my rock,
You are my world,
I'll love you in the sick, hospitalized and hot,
Even when your heart is cold,
I'm crazy for you,
I have fallen for you,
The only lie I told you was that I liked you,
When I knew that you were the one and that I loved you,
Your not my number one,
Your my only one,
You being my wife would be a dream come true, 
A dream where it is just me and you.

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