Long Intensive care unit Poems

He has the biggest heart.

He enjoys doing things for other people

Just because it’s the right thing to do, and

Knowing he made someone happy makes him happy too.

He’ll do whatever he can to satisfy

Everyone around him.

But...

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This is just me writing a verse
About whatever came up first when the dictionary gave me a random word

Matricide

It was all going well I'd never felt better
I've been happy since we got together
You were always...

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Every breath is  a fresh step.
Forget your last step take a fresh breath.

I may not walk the line.
But I am designed to shine.
The things I refuse are
the things I should choose.

Never running away.
Feet anchored...

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Enervated and energized after cold shower
the perfect tonic to gin body though o'clock
wee hours August thirty one two thousand
nineteen - natural buzz to stave off relished
sleep, thus refueled with zest able to chop
chop thru printed...

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Socked and winded unconscious checking account...
(alternatively named last poetic endeavor for 2019
issuing out cerebral petrified complex edifice fount
wobbling as hood winking ornament mount).

Speedily rushed to intensive care unit
courtesy Brinks armored  truck
Citizens Bank emergency crew
monied...

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My mum was on the sick bed
She was so weak that we thought she wouldn't make it
Through the night we prayed for the Lord to save her soul
In the morning i heard sound coming from...

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Heart Does Have Defects

After thorough cardiac exam a doctor detects
Jimmy Kimmel's baby does have heart defects;
Along with all of this NICU is extremely necessary 
In an emotional situation that appears to be scary.

For Jimmy's family created much...

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My brother died so suddenly, unexpectedly
at sixty six, a young age in today’s standard.
He contracted the Corona virus that took his life.
Unable to breathe, he was taken to emergency
on Christmas Eve and was admitted to...

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Music is my home,
Written when I am alone.
Nobody is hear to save me as I slash
 my wrists and they turn scarlet.
 My mother and father walks through the door,
 my mother screams and ,
my...

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"Lord, grant Your divine healing..."
This is my spirit's plea
Now that I'm confronted with my Dad's groaning angst
While he writhes in pain, struggling to express himself
Here in the Intensive Care Unit which is his haven this...

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Tell me, Casanova, how long you’ll pine
On sodden sleeves your heart you’ve worn
Reputation on the line in decline
Sterile standing in society shorn

Of its aura of charm and calm
Reduced to tatters
With no love balm
In sight, your...

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Christmas days with loved ones, surely blissful
Carol hymns reign, awesomely delightful 
Merry tunes of “O Come, All Ye faithful”
With “Joy to the World,” very beautiful.
 
Resonating loud is orchestra’s praise
“Our dear Saviour’s birth” of glad...

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Do you hear it? Do you hear the nothingness
Not a single word, not one solitary word at all
So that a teardrop sobs in the void of emptiness
Dogwood leaves scream as they plummet and fall

Did you...

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I did not sleep that night,
the motel room was already taking on 
the chill ambience, smell, and sounds
of an intensive care unit,
weary eyelids
sensed the tubes and restraints
already binding me.
Latex-gloved fears
kept me on a weary high...

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God reigns in my winter wonder dream land
With His grace warming chilly December
Reverberating Earth's peace* as He's planned
Sounding triumphant joy of no slumber
Midst sparkling reunion's glowing ember 
While each clan member gives special number.

There in...

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Everyday, with all my heart, I thank God* jubilantly…
for His uncountable endowments:

breath of life--- 
especially the enjoyment of free oxygen
verily costly in the infirmary’s intensive care unit;

strength to accomplish goals---
despite challenges hurdled
against toils’ stress and...

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Blessed be GOD,
           the ultimate sovereign* Brain
     best in His omniscience to work in every single neuron...
Ruling by His righteousness 
...

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You are lonely...You read this
A human being hurting
I see you
So now you know 
Terminality ill resting here 
ICU
Means Intensive Care Unit 
I see you
ICU is an acronym, abbreviation slang word 
I see you
On respite care,...

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Teachers and students bond
In the classroom, in the lecture room
To ensure the teaching and learning process doesn’t abscond
As teachers their students’ future groom 

In bonds that over time tie tighter
As the loco parentis role teachers...

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I did not sleep that night,
the hotel room was already taking on
the chill ambience, smell, and sounds
of an intensive care unit.

Occasional distant laughter
in a corridor where people are carefree,
I pretend to laugh along
but thoughts croak...

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Steam driven ashes and lava from volcanoes
Obscure tomorrows
Exploding from bean pods and tomatoes
Beseeching and seeking halos

Our lives require
To earn a rebirth
Inspire and inquire
Whether a new berth

Becomes of the essence
In the path the future offers
Despite the...

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Thrice death has knocked at the same door

Husband, wife, brother are all gone

Fell victims to COVID-19, which I abhor

Thus all have seen eternity's dawn!*







© Demetrios Trifiatis
       10 July 2021


*...

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Neonatal Intensive Care Unit NICU

Are things at times we may be laughing
But never, ever will one be under-staffing
With fewer nurses who were often needed
Assist along a birth that could be impeded.

Then there was the time...

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Oh, dear; cheer-up, see this intensive care unit-gear
Bare now its rare health-giving share
As I dare God to grant my Dad His reviving welfare!

Diligent nurses, marked with services graciously excellent:
Thanks for your gentle consoling nurture
Coupled by...

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The radio played the day you waltz into this world and an orchestra played love songs in my heart every minute of every day I was with you. The days equated  to notes in...

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