Short Rest Home Poems

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Premium Member Rest Home Window

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
Form: Tanka


Premium Member 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
Form: Limerick

Premium Member 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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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 
you!
Form: Fibonacci

An Unexpected Shark

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 from his wheelchair
then rolls to his next shot.


Donal Mahoney


Premium Member 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 regressive-  Path 
A return to   Heart
know Me-  BE
@ Self
d
r
o
p rogress
Form: Concrete

Mom

Mom got moved to the dementia ward
more one to one
and hands on care
help dressing, help bathing, words to orientate
still sadley
the rest home doors are locked

kid inside me chuckes "She's in lock down" 
not that this is funny at all -
but such levity brings a little smile to the room where mom and I sit
and even though
she doesn't understand where my smile comes from
it makes her smile anyway
and the moment
is enjoyed.
Form:

Premium Member 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 button near the bed cause these 2 can't lift me back on mah bed..please tell me how i will git some rest if i can't reach my panic button for them to send me someone else. Is this.a rest home,let me call my sister viv,she dropped me off at the wrong place.
Form: Epic

Premium Member In a Moment's Clarity

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'd helped Mom raise all of us kids. At the rest home, seeped in dementia and confused by a recent surgery whose aim he could not comprehend, he cried out helplessly, but seeing our mom, he took her hand and gently whispered, "You're the one I've been thinking of."
Form: Etheree

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