Best Nursing Home Poems

During lunch I announced when I retire I am going to go to jail.
What?
Jail, I repeated. I will rob a bank or something.
The three others laughed. 

Think about it, I told them. How much do nursing homes cost?
They started to think about it and discussed...

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On the way to the nursing home, we pass many beautiful sights. So many homes with pleasant yards, lawns, and flowers that delight. After so many days of rain then a little break, green everywhere abounds. 

kudzu wraps up trees
grows rapidly reaches road....
goats needed to...

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Hungry for munchies, on his way to the lunchroom, 
a rambunctious, persnickety,“fuss-budget”, elderly
jittery, fidgety, geezer, named Cassidy…
whose questionable dexterity, aghast by a massive sneeze,
teeter-tottered precariously. 
at the edge of the thingamajig, ...jigging one way, jagging the other!

Minding his own beeswax, without any rigmarole, 
topsy-turvy on...

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As he sits in the chair, towards the floor is his gaze,
fleeting memories wash over him but his mind is a haze.
The nurse flashes by and gives him a smile,
He longs for someone to sit and talk for a while.

The children will visit, he hopes...

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I thought I'd seen it all before
What else could life now have in store
She called the game at half past three
The patients stared
Some stared at me
Cards were laid out nice and neat
All waited for the late day treat
The caller let the numbers flow
Her pace, of...

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Hey man, let's stop by the drive through nursing home. 

'Okay.' 

I pulled up to the menu 

'Uh, I'll have a septuagenarian widower whose hobbies include 
pottery (specializing in lawn ornaments) and taxidermy.' 

You want anything? 

'Nah.' 

Alright.  

I drove around and handed the...

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Boulder shoulders, bursting biceps,
      terrifying to see.
A menacing mountain of a man,
     well, he used to be.

He would brutally barrel through each
     frightened, fleeing foe.
Many feared him so, although that
  ...

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Used upshot ~ no just quiet ring
as Grandma sits upon her swing
content, but how, you want to sing
can quiet rest so willingly!

Her eyes seem set ~ yet seeing more
it must be from some elsewhere store
no name for it ~ I've never seen
this humming silence ~...

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No Nursing Home For Them

By Elton Camp

Joe is gray and seventy-five
Meg’s also old but still alive

Their Harley they still love to ride
Being old farts they can’t abide

Many people their age are put away
In some gloomy nursing home to stay

Joe and Meg, with a blast, their...

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Once there was a nursing home man called Fred,
at night he was found in an old gals bed;
with a great big happy smile,
his pajamas in a pile;
when questioned- "THIS is my dead wife" he said !

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May 19, 2019


Added after contest judged, June 11, 2019-
Poetry/Limerick/Nursing Home...

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Boulder shoulders,  bursting  biceps, 
                terrifying to see,
A  menacing mountain of a man, well, 
            ...

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When bread
is this good
a morsel

will suffice
and when wine
is this good

a sip is enough
for the wraiths
and specters

coming toward 
the altar now
on crutches

walkers
in wheel chairs
celebrating  

the last Easter 
some of them 
will know 

as they await  
a resurrection
of their own.

 
Donal Mahoney...

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The mind not plummet with worries complain,
sign it all over, just what remains
sugar & symbols & lollypop limbos
smoothing all tredmarks, objections to wane!

Give all to descendents.
sign off with your name
to care place' imcumbents
who struggle your claim!

Phased then in one spectrum
lets cover it all
days craze resurrection
not...

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Life Spent - All Alone


When I spend time at the old nursing home
     to see a loved one in our family,
it breaks my heart to see those all alone
     just sitting, waiting, by the wall to see

if...

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Silent but Deadly (Written 2014)

In the heart of the nursing home where old folks stay,
Lived Erasmus, a man twinkling in twilight's array.
With a glimmer that danced in his mischievous eyes,
He concocted a plan to bring great surprise.

Not a prankster by trade, but a jester at...

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