Life Nursing Poems

Old Harry, Hungry

Elder Harry was happy
Excited to eat, like a child versus old
Cookie was first stuffed, eagerly eating

Following was rest of his dinner
Pasta, was told

First,...

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Silent but Deadly (Written 2014)

In the heart of the nursing home where old folks stay,
Lived Erasmus, a man twinkling in twilight's array.
With a glimmer that...

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In the avalanche, I lost track of my guiding light.
I fled my fireside. I had to evacuate my homestead. 
Driven far astray by frenetic frozen...

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....On Receiving my Nursing Cap......

On the shores of Lake Michigan, I bowed my head, 
and received my nursing cap.
At Madonna de LaStrada  Chapel, long...

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Florence they are honoring nightingales
Blazing an individual’s healthy trail 
Having a firm grip on what is going on 
When life unleashes an adversity bomb 
And...

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Writing yet another note to my straight white CongressMan,
asking him to Please, Do Panic
about all this fear-based non-legislation
undemocratic fascist 
nationalistic Win/Lose evolutionary corrupt
democratic devolution
going on...

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A meritorious student, half way to her study of medicine
She took up the Nursing Course, 
Dorothea, a beautiful young nun with a mother’s heart
Used to...

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In the multi-racial nursing home
to bent and broken bodies
in broken bent back wheelchairs
longing to free roam,
said the black lives matter rapper:

When your woman leaves you,
and...

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Oh, you did not know Mrs. Klondike said.
Haughty, uppity, not nice in the least.
The festival has been moved and renamed.
The Aprillstica has been re-named?

No way!
I...

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What good is done in carrying a grudge,
And nursing wrath o'er long?
The past is past, what's done is done.
Stop singing the same of song.

To cogitate...

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Life Spent - All Alone


When I spend time at the old nursing home
     to see a loved one in our family,
it...

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The young woman peered into the room
She saw a large legless blind man
Uncovered and naked on the bed
The nurse nudged the woman forward
And warned her...

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Look at you now, nursing cavities
You're losing gravity, feeding your proclivities
Trying to maintain a high by creating new lows
You're up there but are you holding...

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As he sits in the chair, towards the floor is his gaze,
fleeting memories wash over him but his mind is a haze.
The nurse flashes by...

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I gave my life, I gave you all I had to give
I cherished and I fed you and I made you live
I often went without...

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