Life Ward Poems

Life in hospital wards,
with blue drapes, white washed floors,
grey assets, wheeled tables.
Corn-beef hash, carrot mash,
day-pay TV cables.

Life in hospital wards,
spiked fevers, cooling aids,
pee cups, samples...

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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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Live your life truthfully and let live others meaningfully....

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How does it feel to be confined to a bed
Alone in a psych ward with the voices in your head
Your actions done and now you're...

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I had been put down just about all my life
Went through heartache and much strife

Lost my salvation, turned my back 
on Christ, no longer felt...

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Pain
gloomy
in their eyes
i saw and felt.
Bed one, two and more               ...

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Midnight. This white ward
drifts softly through chalked moonbeams
shifting walls argent to cream,
sifting sterile halls.
Full moon fingers reach within
touching each silvered sheet-shroud.

Jaded nurses drowse...
vials drip crystalline...

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As I reminisce of the
     Stars' above
I can not require His
       Demeanor
Nor beseech HIs Love
Fore...

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

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It takes my life,
through a delicate, plastic pipe.
I lie here. Knowing
I am punctured.

It takes my life.
Straight from my feeble heart,
that flutters,
as the red stuff flows.

My...

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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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