Short Nursing Home Poems

Old men
sit in wheelchairs, drool
warehouses for people...

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They sit and  stare
Some not aware
Sit lay bed alone
Lights turn on
Under
Nursing Home Care...

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Blink
A year is gone

Cough
Your toddler is getting married

Yawn
You are in a nursing home

Yes
It is that fast....

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He sits in the nursing home confined to a wheechair for the rest of his life, still able to think, a prisoner in his own body....

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some or very old
there  no longer gold
no lie
just there to die
its at  time treated unkind
and misuesd
its the
NURSING HOME BLUES...

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its a nursing home
in chair some or alone
its sad
some look mad
been sick
with legs very thick
doctor give ths bad news
its the
WHEEL CHAIR BLUES...

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Old age
Muted rage

Broke hips
Bitter lips

Happy thoughts
Are Fought

Sunny Days
Turn away

Why lie
Will die

Nursing home
Swallows groan...

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how often do we test the health of a president?
is the life of a president worth more to god than
that of a butcher, prisoner, carpenter or nursing home resident?...

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He waits for a woman,
Who’s shift was changed years ago,
But yesterday told him,
"Visit you on Wednesdays now "
So now he waits for her,
and Wednesday to come....

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some come in 
they look for friend
they have  mabe a grim
very much
need that love touch
be aware
they have a soul not just old
needs indeed
NURSING HOME CARE...

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They have the innocence of children.
Our certified nursing assistants love them.
Refer to them as "our “babies”.
Loving their childlike, eager, enthusiastic attitudes.
Nursing home magic, well-earned by the aged....

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New Jersey is the type of place
Where you pay more and more
As you get older
While simultaneous the value
Of experiences grow less and less
Until one day
You're in a nursing home IV strapped
Sipping apple juice and leaking in a bed pan...

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Says, the old man begs him 
each time he visits him at 
the nursing home, to put a pillow 
over his face while asleep help end 
his suffering,

but he watches too many C.S.I spin-offs
on t/v ,  
and the old guy’s just not worth the attention.....

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live for today my friend
arthritis in both ankles
has changed my life

do all the thing you dream of doing
before your body fails you
because it might

money should not stop you
you can pay it back bit by bit
as you sit in a nursing home, remembering …....

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live for today my friend
arthritis in both ankles
has changed my life

do all the thing you dream of doing
before your body fails you
because it might

money should not stop you
you can pay it back bit by bit
as you sit in a nursing home, remembering …....

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Show some respect for the children
Who have not been vaccinated
Healthcare costs are soaring
Although they're not highly rated!

Don't doom a child to a lifetime
Of being a nursing home pawn
Wearing your mask is no big thing
Delta is here!  DON'T pass it on!...

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The husband of a friend
Is in an Alzheimer ward
Of a nursing home.
She visits him daily.
Most of the time
He doesn't know who she is.
She sits with him and
Strokes his hand.
One day, very near the end,
He puts his arm around her and says,
"You're the only girl I ever loved."...

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that call, a face
    porcelain 
pressed against glass
and dead eyes wrought
from an attic room
    watching us

her name badge was
irrelevant
  “No, those top rooms
  are not used, full
  of junk and all locked up”
yet the face watched us
leave; into 
  the further ghosts
    of night


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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 second time I remember we meet. Looking at you upon my visit.
Rotted black encrusted feet. No longer lustrous and standing.
Nasal gastric tube in your nare. No running scheduled feedings.
Seeing you abandoned in the nursing home showed that the staff no longer had 
any cares.
Balled in a fetal position. Shocked that you were ravaged....

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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 course, was very slow
Finally a hand went up
A quarter in the winner's cup...

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the great river meandering its lazy banks moves its fertility trough eons to keep you guessing its abundance.
The great river is whimsical with its torrents and torment to swallow in an instant your dreams of rich.
but you persevere from nursery to nursing home as in the between is a gift not to be questioned but lived to the fullest for a fool to play the game....

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Little Troll

a little troll i said to she,
that is your friend, at work she be,
and then the dollars missing went,
and down the shop she went and spent,
ole johnson said it, see,
the nursing home cast her free,
and there was no dissent,
cept the Troll, she  wanted a wee,
beware some Trolls are bent....

Don Johnson

Re: The Trouble With Trolls
Debbie Duncan...

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You sprinkle golden dust
I read them and feel silky
In dark or light, read I must
Two are toward the path milky

Even in the nursing home
Amidst the smell of illness
Golden dust do roam
Vacuum cries for fullness

I am a dreamful river
You are a flirting ocean
You and I together 
Carry forward the fusion

Lo, there the birds call
Let’s go to dancing hall....

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another mind trip
a dreamy trek in fancy
adrift on downhill memory lane
leaning on the old high gate of
Strawberry Hill nursing home
Waiting for the Penny Lane tram
To walk by Calder Stones
Then ride to Pier Head
On top front seat to see it all
To watch green Liver birds turn red
With Mersey sunset light
Then walk the Promenade at night
In salted missed delight...

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