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Hospitals and mountains

Everything leads up to this
adds up to this position
where you think you'll be alone
forever but fairly soon if not exactly
next week you will meet someone
in a park or stuck in traffic

They will set your flesh alight
slowly much too slowly and it
will seem like bad behaviour
you will feel as if
as if you are harbouring an infection

You

Categories: hospitals, destiny, future, lonely, mountains,
Form: Free verse

How Many More Peace Keepers

Time marches on but the story doesn't change.
Innocent lives being taken by a person whose deranged..
Last weekend in Pa. it was our state police, one is still
critical, and the other is now  deceased..
The unstable shooter is also now gone.
Will this ever stop? What keeps going so wrong?
This tragic story truly rings home for me.
I

Categories: hospitals, mental illness,
Form: Narrative

Hospitals Are

Hospitals are designed
(a) to make you appreciate your bed at home
(b) to prompt many unanswerable questions 
(c) to facilitate smooth patient care
(d) to never complain about your wife’s cooking again

Referrals to a psychiatrist are made when 
(a) you become catatonic after having no sleep for a week
(b) after complaining about a noisy roommate you start

Categories: hospitals, appreciation, care, conflict, fun,
Form: List

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Hospitals

For 65 years, I had no need to be under the care of a doctor,
nor was I ever on prescription medication except for dental issues.
At 65, I went to see my assigned primary doctor, and after saying
Hello, my next words were, "Doctor, just give me no pain". I admit,
for 6 decades, I had been blessed

Categories: hospitals, care, health, heart,
Form: Narrative

Jello

JELLO

I hate jello because it is a food
once in your mouth it wiggles moves
reminds me of what worms must feel like to eat
grosses me out for the life of me

Who had such a fantasy
to make some squishy protein
From animal parts most disgusting
Food served in hospitals observably 

Jellied cranberries a similar food
Would rather have cranberry juice
And

Categories: hospitals, animal, feelings, flower, fruit,
Form: Rhyme

Dearth of Hope, Death-Wish of Despair

What really makes patients gasp for air?
How far blaming poor oxygen’s fair?
Go right unto root’s core
And a ship comes to shore:
Hospital bills do have giant’s share.
Still deeper should ye pore,
Bleeding cause comes to fore:
Dearth of hope and death-wish of despair!
______________________________________ 
Happenings |21.05.2021|

Poet’s note: 
One might feel that a limerick form for a subject matter so

Categories: hospitals, death, hope,
Form: Limerick

Abandoned

These walls, crumbling through time.
seeing old metal beds, stained mattresses,
broken sinks and toilets, rusted old medical supplies and a vacant morgue.

 I'm walking through a dark place where pain was inflicted, 
on patients to non existing ailments.
Lobotomies, electroshock, meds that these doctors and nurses, 
thought would cure such simple illnesses.

 The flickering florescent lights above

Categories: hospitals, dark, history, loneliness, memory,
Form: Free verse

Thank God For Hospitals

For 65 years, I had no need to be under the care of a doctor,

Categories: hospitals, pain,
Form: Narrative

A Porters Approach To Coronavirus

Since that shutdown thing
Things have been quite quiet here at work

Im a porter in a hospital
Moving people for transport and some other things now

My hospital has stayed the same,
But everyone is looking like surgeons and dentists,

Ive read the governments writing,
We mustn't do this; we must do that,

Fair enough,
They probably know their stuff

The COBRA meetings probably

Categories: hospitals, appreciation, perspective,
Form: Narrative

Lots of Relatives In Mental Hospitals

I have lots of relatives
in Mental
 Hospitals
who  I do not

Go Visit

For Obvious
Reasons.

Categories: hospitals, funny, humor, humorous, judgement,
Form: Free verse

Hospitals Must Help

hospitals must help
all who need medical care--
insurance or not

Categories: hospitals, business, caregiving, health, introspection,
Form: Haiku

Daily Routine In Hospitals

The EKG-ECG beeped as she "breathed" heavily
with the oxygen mask across her face
gradually her hope "limped"

her little fingers revealed her hunger for comfort
her spontaneous restricted movements showed her mind refreshed the terrible moments of
deja vu- the scene that sprung her sadness

the silence around her seemed intimidating-stealing-encapsulating her awareness

lying on the bed
she appeared death infested-deficiently dying

Categories: hospitals, lifeme, planet,
Form: I do not know?