Best Rest Home Poems

...I was minding my business, taking my time,
Ridin’ Ol’ Bess from the West Miller Mine
When all of a sudden, (weren’t nothing’ I did)
Bess started buckin’ and she hit the skids!

I was pitched off......

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...By morning, I could feel the first hints of warm air,
Relieved I took my bath and dressed for work.
There was no music in the block of flats,
But in my head rumbled a hundred old time songs 
That......

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...When the Parakeet increased his squawking
with the noise box ceaseless talking
far louder than the muted city roar.
Then I pondered that curious poem about the lost Lenore
About that bedeviled ma......

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...Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  Old Folks Home 
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  June /2015 


Good morning 
Mr Wilson,
Sir -

Are you
ready

for
a
bright 
sunny day?

Young man,
tod......

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...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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...My
stepdad,
stricken with
a terrible
disease, suffered for
over a decade as
his mind slowly unraveled.
Bits and pieces of it vanished.
He had to be removed from the house
in which he......

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...I wish I didn't stop to think,
about the man who cherished me.

My childhood so fun and fair,
I remember your cologne drifting in the air.

The days we went to the Space museums,
showing me pi......

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...More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allowed to live in ......

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...This is about a Christian woman living at a rest home that has no other place to abide without anyone caring and depression.  I used to work as a CNA(Certified Nurse Assistant).

The Final Hour

......

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...As I awoke to a brand-new day
I asked Him to direct my path
To protect and guide, lest I should fall
And keep me free, from grief and wrath

In haste, I departed on an errand
Forgot -  if I, ha......

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...You see things at the rest home
you don’t expect to see.
New veteran in his Korea cap is 
whipping everyone else in pool.

He never has to bend over 
and aim before he shoots.
He strokes it fr......

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...The skipper had sailed quite a few storms and survived

Strong as a cross hanging over an apocalypse’s altar he

Had weathered all seasons and crossed heaven and hell

Tempted his fate and good......

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...He lies on his bed in the rest home -
the old man that nurses all there
have given the nickname Old Pickle.
(Of course they've seen beneath his underwear.)

Like greenish blue cheese
bulge the ......

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...
              Heck, who am I?
        I fell, taken to hospital.
      Strong antibiotics and was sent home.
        I felt dizzy. Who cared?
  Diabetic pills sent me into deep coma.
  Found m......

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...lying in the stroller waiting for a push
then we go round the mulberry bush
saddling up the rocking horse
getting our jeans all dirty of course!
day one on the bus going to school
Provokingly th......

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