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Premium Member Rest Home Window
Sunset through the glass

One window shade left open

Letting me look out

To watch the darkness coming

And the fall of one more night...

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Categories: rest home, death, night, old,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Ah Rest Home
they put me in a rest home to get some rest,they sent 2 skinny 90 pound attendants to my room,they say we gon flip your mattress and they flipped me right.off my bed and now i can-t reach my panic button near the bed cause...

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Categories: rest home, care,
Form: Epic
Rest Home
We are climbing the stairs
that lead to your life.

A door tilts open, spilling your image
from the stains on the wall.
Urine musts the heavy air. We see
you now, a leather hull jerking
to the dull frenzy of a rocking chair.

You seem a stranger,
each hair closely knifed
from your...

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Categories: rest home, angst, death, loss, sad,
Form: Free verse

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To go Home
Land o the mists an glens, land o the water o life.
          Land o the heathery hills, land o the mountains tall.
          Land o the magic tales,...

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Categories: rest home, appreciation, birth, desire, home,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry