Health Poems | Examples of Health Poetry

Where have you been Depression? gray, fuzzy robe, blanketed high, tucked under chin where salty tears dried, yesterday. Stuck to the corners of my eyes and down my neck, once puddled between breasts, like a moat around my...Read the rest...

I’ve always had the sneaking suspicion I’d never grow old. I mean, when I was younger, I scribbled plans in a notebook. Drew clumsy castles with blue marker and proclaimed loudly that I’d own one one day. But...Read the rest...

I am searching for myself, The one who once walked by my side, In the corner of a closed room, Where dreams were penned with pride. I sought the open sky, Yet, inside, I wove my own web, Like a spider...Read the rest...

Will I ever feel ready as another year approaches and twelve months will soon be left behind? Twenty-four containing pieces of an incomplete puzzle I hope to finish in twenty-five. The year I cannot remember living,...Read the rest...

As a law-abiding senior citizen of Hawai I was living a pretty decent life Until my absence alerted my neighbours And the paramedics broke the front door of my house To find me lying unconscious inside Now I...Read the rest...

I’m decaying prematurely, with a marked efficiency I never utilized in life. Bits of ash float from my mouth each time it opens and my hands mark all I touch with a temporary smudge. I’m going out like a...Read the rest...

Darkness surrounds me I can no longer move The flowers you once gave me Now entraps me in its roots How could kindness turn so rude Yet I will never stop loving you I watch as these flowers...Read the rest...

Tiny baby with butterfly wings Asleep Dreaming of flying Bright eyes cocooned by soft brown hair What do you see? Half-feeling, half-awake; Round pink fists, round pink knees. Tiny body, strong and full of hope. For your sake And for mine I hope you never...Read the rest...

Surgeons make many fine decisions requiring delicate incisions Only one ‘hurts me more than it hurts you’ ~ and that...Read the rest...

You may find my manifesto on healthcare in America hostile and I don’t give a damn or crap for I am telling the truth. Healthcare in America is a multi-billion dollar industry for profit because it does not...Read the rest...

It’s okay to carry the weight of your fractures - to let the world see where light fights to escape the jagged edges. Let them witness the uneven gleam; perfection is a story that never breathes. They say strength is...Read the rest...

You are a brother And a son, special gifts For you are known, shown You are a child And a man sang "Kumbaya" "Come by here, O' Lord" As if to forecast His love to a family You held together In its time of...Read the rest...

My afterthought is my goal--precedes me, My health and healing is my main concern, All else is fairly addressed--and not key, My patience requires my good return. Good hopes and goodwill--righteousness succeeds, My afterthought is my goal--precedes me, Glory be His...Read the rest...

They say follow your heart, but mine is a storm, a beast tearing through its cage, flooding everything in its wake. I’ve tried to chain it, but it slips, a blaze of fury and wreckage, too wild to be understood, too raw to...Read the rest...

Can old thoughts of hurt that we shun Cancel life’s gifts wonder and fun? If anger must stay Within brain’s array Do we run with pain in the sun? To digest bad memory’s lunch Chop stick therapies help us munch And chew...Read the rest...