Short Nursing Home Poems

Short Nursing Home Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Nursing Home by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Nursing Home by length and keyword.


Premium Member Blink Away Time

Blink
A year is gone

Cough
Your toddler is getting married

Yawn
You are in a nursing home

Yes
It is that fast.


Getting Older

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.
Form: Haiku

Nursing Home Blues

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

Premium Member nursing home abnormality

Juvenility meets senility
Childlike to childish formality
Nursing home abnormality
Inmates extend hospitality
I run as if they have a malady
Form: Rhyme

Wheel Chair Blues

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


Premium Member Muted Rage

Old age
Muted rage

Broke hips
Bitter lips

Happy thoughts
Are Fought

Sunny Days
Turn away

Why lie
Will die

Nursing home
Swallows groan
Form: Couplet

Premium Member How Often

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?
Form: Haiku

Man Outside a Nursing Home

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.

Nursing Home Care

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

Premium Member Our Babies

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.

The Value of New Jersey

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

Eddie Jr On Eddie Sr

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..
© Mike Lef  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Live For Today My Friend

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 ….

Premium Member Live For Today My Friend

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 ….

Save the Children

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!
Form: Rhyme

Undying Love From In the Land of the Elderly

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."
Form:

So much change

Where Saffron grew
is a Nursing home now
the demolished past
haunts us again

Where lovers once strode the fields
is a motorway now
Past love, knew no bounds
With faith in each other
and infinitive love
we walk the freckled way
The Ghosts speak softly
They have been recalled today

Premium Member Ambulance Dispatched To A Nursing Home - A Ghostly Account

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
Form: Narrative

Easter At the Nursing Home

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

Ravaged

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.
Form:

Bingo Ode To a Nursing Home

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
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Amen

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.

Please!

A car was parked illegally;
The hydrant wasn’t cleared,
Plus it was by a nursing home
And might have interfered.

I never would have noticed it,
But signage did impart
That a tow truck would be coming
‘Cause the engine wouldn’t start.

Thee note said “Please!” perhaps to cops
Who rarely have the choice
About issuing a ticket to
A reprobate Rolls Royce!
Form: Rhyme

Little Troll

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
Form: Ballad

Celebration

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.
Form: Lyric

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