Sanatorium Poems - Poems about Sanatorium

The human sanatorium

...I’m caught between lights and shadows 
By a demon that has settled in my mind 
And locked me in a somber prison 
While my heart and body were entwined.

In the sad and gray sanatorium of my life...

spring morning

...Spring Morning

today, waking up, it was warmer, the winter 
had been cold at times, freezing electric heating
is not for those with a slim wallet

Today, we will write pleasant poetry 
not li...

a spring day in 1952

...A day spring day 1952 

It was a day in April, the boy sat by the milk ramp waited for the man, who drove from farm-to-farm, collecting milk for the Dairy in local town There was only one type of m...

rendezvous

...Rendezvous 

The youngish woman sitting near the window
in the train, looks pale and too slim
Stroking her throat, I think she has tuberculosis
on her  way to the sanatorium 
"The Camelia dame"...

a short memory

...a short memory

There were and still are two airports on the flatland 
outside of our town, therefore many German soldiers 
where stationed here.
Since roads, and bridges had to be built and mai...

to lost friends

...To lost friends
I have opened the window and inhale the summer
Some of the cottages I see, made of stone and lime are empty, their owners have gone home to their birthplace, where they died waiting...

Where Is God Hiding

...God dwells in the sanctum sanatorium of my heart,
Even at death of mortal body he does not depart;
Ignorance is not the obstacle that blocks him from me,
Reluctance to see him stops me in his pres...

Journey To a Crematorium

...Let me tell you a story on a midnight journey,
To a crematorium, through an undergrowth ferny; 
At my age between sixteen to seventeen,
In nineteen seventy eight; with a dusky scene; 
A time, whe...

Faerie Mcfriggle Feister Forlorning

...We faeries were a twitter for our houses were under attack in the crags.
Giant hunters had been capturing them, shoving them into bags.
Heard scared faeries screaming for help as they were carted o...

Manage Et Trois

...Menage et Trois 

 On the farm, I was sent to when my mother was at home for tuberculosis, 
I was quite happy, the people on the farm consisted of a middle-aged couple
The sister of the wife and ...

Nothing At All

...thermometer cold to the touch
absent of heat, patron
walks behind the taker

mirror image, the wall
the floors,
nothing at all

teeth chatter at base of my neck,
“You see nothin...

Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii

...Sonnets XXV-XXXII

Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eye...

Sonnets X-Xvi

...Sonnets X-XVI


Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes'...

Memories and a Farm

...Memories and a farm 

My mother had tuberculosis and sent to a sanatorium 
I ended up in a home run by the local town and financed
by people who meant well
I made life difficult for the staff, a...

Draconian Debacle

...Debacle is not of a noble birth 
Like debris of steel without a worth 
A part of life which is so germane 
And earth remains his prime domain.

Debacle is lethal and so uncivil 
She births grie...

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