Death Ward Poems

"Code Blue!"
Baby blue, blue 
baby, nurses crying
Years of yearning, a lifetime's dreams.
Hold me....

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Life, here hangs on a filmy thread of hope
Unskilled acrobats, making tight rope walks 
With the deep chasm gaping below
Some too fatigued to feel the...

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Homeward Thoughts

When I see the white jet stream of an air carrier
high up on the blue sky that wholly cloud,
like a grazing flock of sheep
I...

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What he did to simple Mark 
With a sword 
Left him with a complex mark 
In a ward …
Endless cries of “Oh!  My ...

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The psych ward,
The place everybody assumes is all padded rooms and restraints,
People think that being in the hospital defines you.

So tell me,
Does having been in...

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Of all the kooky Coo-Coo's in the nest, Charlene by far was my favorite. Poor Charlene had virtually lost her mind after the sudden tragic...

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

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Cavernous warehouse filled to the rafters
With all of my memories; forgotten laughter
Boxes unmarked, heavily taped, a dusty cluttered mess
Haphazard narrow walkways disappear into the dark...

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Hideous cancer chisels away
With strange tragic sculpturing
And exposes dark flaws
heavy and black:
Inoperable, they say.

Ever present cigarette
Tenaciously supported
By shaking hand
and unfaltering need
Moved toward fried death
As wrenching...

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