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Resurrection Shifted To Monitor
I died on surgeons table Before surgeons knife sliced my chest Before anesthesia put me to rest I died in imagination as hopes die in fable Vivid thoughts ran amok Which new abode I will go, if I die What new way I will live, if I survive Mind clueless, thoughts at dead end fork Malfunctioning Valve plucked...

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Categories: icu, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Icu
Frigid waiting rooms people coming and going speaking with hushed voice - watching, waiting for good news while death silently hovers 9/19...

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Categories: icu, death, people, sick,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Acrimonious Acronyms - No Place For Me In Icu
I'm at my office at the AMA I have a seizure, but I’m not DOA So I get transported to the local ER Who call my ex wife, she works in PR Before I get treatment by a young MD They want insurance and proof of my ID But my evil ex had arranged a DNR It’s clear to see that I...

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Categories: icu, health, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Past, Present, Unknown
We had another lockdown, Just a month that time, Now on a tier system are you 1, 2 or 3? Guidelines were the same as before ..... mostly, Did people follow them? Or just ignore them? Some rules twisted to suit. Christmas is not far away, We have been given 5 days and a three household mix, That's to long and to many...

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Categories: icu, confusion, death, fear, how
Form: Free verse
Icu
i harbor my hope in the spaces between your fingers. like light falling slowly and then all at once, upon docked ship straining for sea, upon moonlit water wishing it was more like the others wishing it could see the stars. you looked down as i cried, and i smiled because i knew the world was watching me fall...

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Categories: icu, adventure, longing, love, stars,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 10 Conversations In Icu Part Ii
Number six. "Good morning, my name is David Brown. I'm a humanist chaplain volunteer. I like to do the rounds and have a natter." "That's interesting, David. Do sit down. So what motivates you here? How do you speak to spiritual matters?" "Well, I’ve been there, and I like to try and help. I was clinically dead from a...

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Categories: icu, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 10 Conversations In Icu Part I
Number one. "Good morning. Would you like tea with your breakfast?" No. I want milk with my porridge but it hasn't yet come." "You will have to ask them." "Who's them? Who should I ask? Which one?" "The people who do breakfast, who do you think?" "But they're not here. Can't you give me some milk?" "No,I only do...

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Categories: icu, funny, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Icu - Not An Emergency
I see you Little goblin girl Your head popped above the row Of bushes but of discord too, we grow Blue and green were shades of the same color Blew past and ahead of me were you allowing me To see where you once and again will be, free to be me...

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Categories: icu, dedication,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Hospice
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° life has left this sterile white garden bent as a willow, I keen above blossomless beds grieving those roses that once grew here °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°...

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Categories: icu, caregiving, death, depression, flower,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Icu I See You
You are lonely...You read this A human being hurting I see you So now you know Terminality ill resting here ICU Means Intensive Care Unit I see you ICU is an acronym, abbreviation slang word I see you On respite care, help us Lord Pains beyond what you can't stand You're being housed in ICU Seriously ill patient I see you Required close observation And monitoring I see...

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Categories: icu, assonance, blessing, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Icu
Critical thinking will not kill you ...

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Categories: icu, culture, education, nonsense, satire,
Form: Grook
Icu
intensive care unit may recover or take leave by those ill and not...

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Categories: icu, life, loss, love, moving
Form: Haiku
Icu Baby
Seconds, minutes, days, weeks, years Now I just cry happy tears Since the day that I found out What miracles are all about A helpless baby small and frail Tiny lungs not being able To help breath life into A preemie who's precious and new Always staying by your side Watching tubes keep you alive Sending prayers up every night Never giving up the fight That soon...

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Categories: icu, baby, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Life Want To See U, Without Icu
I can’t believe, I am in ICU Now that I am, Life want to see U From ICU, THROUGH ICU... ... ... Retrospecting.... .... ... Using morality and spirituality as a cornerstone Devotedly set off to build mansion of success Laid Foundation solid, walls incomplete for right stones Fear of losing or sense of deprivation never put me down FAITH in HIM, not...

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Categories: icu, health, life, recovery from...life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Chair In Icu
I've been watching you for hours now, wringing your hands pacing the floor watching the monitors holding his hand ...

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Categories: icu, caregiving, devotion, husband, sympathyme,
Form: Free verse

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