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These are examples of famous Nursing Home poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous nursing home poems. These examples illustrate what a famous nursing home poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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The Twelve Dancing Princesses

by Sexton, Anne

...>
On his way to the castle
he met an old old woman.
Age, for a change, was of some use.
She wasn't stuffed in a nursing home.
She told him not to drink a drop of wine
and gave him a cloak that would make
him invisible when the right time came.
And thus he sat outside the dorm.
The oldest princess brought him some wine
but he fastened a sponge beneath his chin,
looking the opposite of Andy Gump.

The sponge soaked up the wine,
and thus he stayed awake.<...Read more of this...

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