Old Pickle
...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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Categories:
rest home, old,
Form: Rhyme
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, land o sacred oak.
Land o my birth a...
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Categories:
rest home, appreciation, birth, desire, home,
Form: Free verse
Who Am I
...
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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Categories:
rest home, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Verse
Dad Gum It
...Pity all of those rest home fellows
Over time all their hunger mellows
Without their dentures in
All their meals will begin
Sipping their soup and slurping Jellos...
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Categories:
rest home, old,
Form: Limerick
Dancing With the Stars
...The squirrels are dashing here and there.
desperately filling winter larders.
They are still crazy for nuts, after all these years.
Autumn spurs the living and is a rest-home for the dying
it b...
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Categories:
rest home, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Swabbing My Nose
...Swab
inside
my nose
presses, swirls. Twinges,
twitches, runs like it’s bleeding.
I wait in lobby, till rest home screener
smiles. “Negative! Good to go!”
Grandmother, I only
do this
for
y...
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Categories:
rest home, grandparents,
Form: Fibonacci
I Drop
....
I -
Me
Get- Going
Learn - Education
Acquire - Job territory
Fulfillment - Of desires
Experiences - At peak
reverse swing - Sets in
String returns - Swing
To base Rest - Home
A regre...
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Categories:
rest home, i am,
Form: Concrete
Birthday Party
...Birthday Party
The day began to find a place for lunch which was difficult
most roads were closed due to a cycling tournament
We got out of this mess and ended up in the streets where the rich ...
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Categories:
rest home, best friend, deep, first
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
My New Home Finalised
...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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Categories:
rest home, home, love,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Apple Pie For Desert
...Patience,
Don't be greedy this is a 4 course meal save some of your appetite for desert trust me you will not be disappointed
It's the sweetest and most moist
of apple pie for you to eat from i...
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Categories:
rest home, cat,
Form: Free verse
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 bu...
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Categories:
rest home, care,
Form: Epic
Life Is a Merry Go Round
...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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Categories:
rest home, life, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Dream Catcher
...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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Categories:
rest home, journey,
Form: Free verse
All Too Often
...we bear the weight then die
upon some cross and enter old age
only to have our socks knocked off by what we see
and then all too often it's a 'rest home' for those of us and you
stan sand...
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Categories:
rest home, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Sleepwalking Ultimatium
...Dear Mary for many years a roving painter,
sadly now her memory has grown fainter.
Her top echelon family struggled to find,
someone to corral her wandering mind.
After a letter was sent by best...
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Categories:
rest home, character,
Form: Rhyme
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