Long Nursing home Poems

June 12th 2017 TRANSITION revisited and revised today 4/2/2021

While scrolling over outdated docs
(i.e. namely OpenOffice documents)
derrière seated upon hard backed chair,
yours truly came upon following poem
to share with anonymous readers,
whereby slight modifications 
got made to...

Read More

Oh, find I here as elder in this small place
Some glad respite…

From inside pills 
And journeying on to bitter end

With so many joys of past, left trail-side
To sit only in fading memory then

Great entertainments and...

Read More

              Dr. False Fauci


Fauci, aka,"Doctor I scareth thee,"M.D.~
Cannot stop deceiving all of humanity.


With his monetary marriage to the heinous Bill Gates,
He falsely...

Read More

Aunt Dorothy Funeral
Written by Mel Brake

"And then, I will rise
nor more sorrow no more pain
and then I will rise when he calls my name.."

I thought about my nephew
at Aunt Dorothy's funeral
I wondered who would mourn...

Read More

Brothers Cousins Sister Aunts
one hundred people 
Ten dollars per week each
One thousand dollars per week 

As a group
Fifty two thousand dollars per year
I spoke to a Manager of a nursing home
who stated 

"Administration costs would...

Read More

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, & soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad...

Read More

When my mother was at the age of thirteen,
A dirty old man asked her to come clean,
He invited her over so she could make a few bucks
When she arrived he was in a black tucks
He...

Read More

This poem was written by an old man who died in the geriatric
Ward of a nursing home in North Platte, Neb.  He left nothing 
Of  value, only this poem which I thought had...

Read More

At the age 23 I struggled with my horrible addiction of heroin I had tried to stop but its not easy. Going almost four years being addicted to the devil I had many complications and...

Read More

We as American Citizens can through observation learn!We can learn why "Racism"is a "Health Issue".Racism is a "Mental Health Issue that cannot be denied,because we see "Racism" in every group of people who compose "The...

Read More

Of my life it’s been four long years of never-ending trips to the facility, you name it, in and out and up and down and over.ARGUMENTS? Don’t get me started. Every doctor and nurse on...

Read More

I went to visit her on the morning of Tuesday, March 14, 2017.                      ...

Read More

It was a sugar maple.
Fairly average in size, a good
Number of branches, some 
Low enough to climb for a
Child like myself.

I was never very athletic,
Hated all sorts of sports,
But this tree, this one tree
I could...

Read More

Seven hundred and sixty two feet from corner to corner.  From the huge old elm tree in Dr. Rooney's front yard on one end, to the lamppost that sat outside my bedroom window on...

Read More

Someone saw me digging through the trash this morning
And gave me five bucks
The embarrassed gin-mace of the nursing home volunteer
Plastered to his face 
For the three seconds I could see it 
Before he looked away

Everyone...

Read More

I struggle and battle in the night, twisting and turning,
           All day I was so inner, deep and peaceful in my soul;
   Now...

Read More

You look at me so uninviting;
I may have some missing teeth, stumble when I walk, bout' to FALL!!!
Stutter when I talk, but yet I'll still call;
Might smell like ole mothballs or mint or maybe even...

Read More

A PART OF THE SOLUTION

We have many ministries at Heritage Baptist Church;
For willing, faithful workers we’re always on the search.
For we have many challenges within our ministry;
A part of the solution each worker here can...

Read More

As the old couple were placed in a nursing home the other day,
   They were placed in different rooms on separate floors so far away.
Their children thought it would be for the best,
...

Read More

Thelma Leeson.......
is in a nursing home, dementia will take her,
 and I will recite this at her funeral.

Thelma Jane was a Leeson and she was premmie born
Size of a sauce bottle to a tent her...

Read More

The Key

Ever have a day or moment you knew was
 a milestone? A day you Felt as a person that
 you had moved on? Today was that day for 
me.
Fredy's apartment key was still on...

Read More

Old man Carter lived all alone, quietly nestled in his quaint little home. 
Arthritis kept him crippled, writhing in excruciating pain, his wife long 
since departed, leaving him nothing more to gain. His children made...

Read More

When in Life--You have Children
You teach them--about Love of God
Morals.. Values and Respect

But Some of Now a days Children
In these Times of times... changes
Children want to Rule
For they hit a certain age
Tis they think that...

Read More

My mother is gone..... How do I  change things?  I miss her more than I had ever acknowledged.

My mother is gone....My heart is wounded and damaged.  I can't fill the emptiness I...

Read More

The End is How it Ends 

The end is how it ends and if it doesn’t we haven’t gotten there yet

As I sit here and the window open and the church bells toll

It’s a reminder...

Read More