Long Hospital ward Poems

-Thinking of Iraq Ware Veterans on Veterans Day-

The day after the terrorists attacked our country, I joined the military and was deployed to Iraq. I fought in the desert far away from my sweet home...

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When you were born
On the first of July
I was so broken hearted
I wished I could die
'Cause I'd made the choice
To say goodbye
Such a sad sounding word
Still makes me cry

I stood hour after hour
In the hospital...

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This story is about a homeless drug addict,
Who's life was in shambles, physically and spiritually he was not fit.
Scamming, lying, cheating, was his way of life.
Roaming the streets for his next mark, his chances were...

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This story is about a homeless drug addict,
Who's life was in shambles, physically and spiritually he was not fit.
Scamming, lying, cheating, was his way of life.
Roaming the streets for his next mark, his chances were...

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FROM A HOSPITAL BED
Wordancer

Even if I’m dizzy with an aching head, 
I must not disturb the others in the beds
In this hospital ward where not much is said
For fear of making a fuss.

It’s not much...

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Sure each day is a gift, be it happy or sad,
It’s potentially promise of what’s best in life,
If it thrills to the bone, if it cuts like a knife,
If you find a new friend, if...

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The day my mother died
It was approaching Christmas tide.
A morning in December I remember it well.
She had a dicky heart
And a check up they thought smart
Before they booked there hols in NZ for next year.

The...

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Watching the round clock reach midnight on hospital wall, my sister one side I on other side of his hospital bed, both of us upset, for hours we had cried, saddened, realizing he was in...

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The enemy within 

There has been a war up North but after some times
the occupying forces surrendered and took the train
back where they came from.
Newspapers and magazines were (for a while) free 
of censors and...

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Its now three nights past,
me turning four.
I hardly knew what happened later,
and my sweet granny was on the ventilator.

She lived strong,
even at the stupendous sixty.
My dad turned restless,
be it day or night.

The doctors said,
"Its too...

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Judes Tearjerker ending to Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
1918
The Italian Campaign 
The last days of word war 1


He had made the journey
across the Swiss mountains.
The war was far behind him now
just Catherine lay ahead.
As he...

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Her voice echoed through the hallways
Of the pediatric oncology hospital ward
When people saw the young girl who sang these songs
They were stunned and they were floored

She sang unaccompanied
But there was music in her voice
The children...

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My life was full of sin and shame, 
things one can't bear to name.

I cared about no one but me, myself, and I. 
however, often wished I would die.

My heart was full of hatred and...

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You will not see them behind the gun
You will not see them when the race is won
You will not see them behind the sword
But you shall see them walking with the Lord

You will not see...

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QUESTION

Do you know?
That there's a world?
In this same world?
Looking like another world?
That there's a sick world?
Where people barely say a word?

Do you know?
People lie all day?
Spooned all day?
They admire legs that smash the floor?
Hands that...

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It was exactly what the doctor feared,
after the chemical explosion,
she just stared
about the hospital ward,
so many lives at stake,
she felt as if her heart would break,
the place was crammed
with many beds as it could hold,
so...

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with the newborn, 
   the dying and the dead,
      joyful scream and 
         grieving shrieks 
    ...

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