Just a Little More Worn (poem) by Bonnie Lou May on AuthorsDen

Reviewed on January 14, 2009

a shame, with age we are viewed like the flower whose petals are now showing brown with their brilliant colors in decline -- but love still dwells in our sours -- a little attention from a kind heart would do us wonders -- peace,love and joy -- JMW

Reviewed by 000 000 (Reader)

Reviewed on January 14, 2009

Because we are to big to "rock in their arms" Bonnie, society of youth, may be afraid of the aging ones...because they can see their future!

Reviewed by Marcia Miller-Twiford

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

Dear Bonnie,
This poem really touched me. I often visit our communities nursing home and everything you say is true. They are so lonely and so like little children again. It breaks my heart when one of them asks me something like, "Have your seen my son?" or worse still, "Is my daughter coming today? Did you bring her?" It's so very, very sad.
Hugs,
Marcia

Reviewed by A Serviceable Villain

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

Bonnie~!

Your consistency for incredible pennings is superlative - brilliant!!

LOve and Hugs,

Lance

Reviewed by Felix Perry

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

Very well done and I know this all too well for I have seen first hand how the aged are treated and deserted.

fee

Reviewed by Linda Law

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

This is precisely what I have been getting at in so much of my writing...only in a round about way...where you get to the point, direct and that's the way it is! Guess that is why I enjoyed that movie "Benjamin Buttons" with Brad Pitt so much...the reversal of life...and still...being born old did not make him more appealing or touchable either...but as he became younger, and then was a baby...the coos and love were heaped on... guess that is life; as sad as it is....and now that I live in a 55 plus area, where the seniors are still active, I am becoming so much more compassionate... and understanding...because...one day...I'll be pushing the walker, or in a chair fulltime, and as alone as I am now, there is absolutely no hope that there will be anyone then... so, I believe alot of getting to that place in life comes with EDUCATION...understanding that this is the future for us...and that hopefully...there will always be those few who take the time to visit, to touch, to smile... lovely work, hugs, lindalaw

Reviewed by Abdi-Noor Mohamed (Eagle Of Hope)

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

A question with a profound meaning awaiting an answer from an intelligent mind.

Reviewed by Connie Faust

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

Even a minute of looking into their eyes and paying attention to them helps. A smile is returned in most cases. If not, it's needed all the more. They are perhaps the most neglected part of our society.
The Sonshine Society is a Christian organization dedicated to bringing sunshine into care homes. They have one book called "Hope and Help"(for Nursing Home Ministry) and other outstanding,inexpensive materials, many Giant Print --
Address--Sonshine Society,Box 327,Lynnwood,VA 98046-0327

Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

Heartbreaking reality ... for far too many. Other cultures venerate the elderly; we shut them away, forgetting that we, by the Grace of God, will be there, too ... at the mercy of the young assigned to care for us. Powerfully penned, Bonnie.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Cryssa C

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

Maybe because our parents are usually gone when we reach that age?? :~) My children love to visit with those at nursing homes. We just don't do it often enough. One of the saddest movies I have ever seen on this subject is called "The Mailbox." It is about a woman who lives alone, down a long lane. Every day she walks down her lane to get the mail at the end of the driveway, but rarely does she receive any mail from her children. She even paints her mailbox in hopes that the mailman will see it better. :~) There are several subplots that show you how much she loves her children and wants to hear from there, as well as conversations between her daughter and neighbor (an old school friend of her daughter's) regarding sending the mom to a nursing home. Finally, the daughter decides to send the news to her mom via a letter. Her mother is SO excited to finally receive a letter from her children...not knowing what news that letter actually contains... I won't tell you the end as it would ruin the whole movie, but it really shows, from the perspective of the older person how much that communication means.

Cryssa

Reviewed by Georg Mateos

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

Non gratification for have been kind all along is the reward for the old people.

Georg

Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

So true, Bonnie; a powerful message in verse! Very well done; brava!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :(

Reviewed by Liana Margiva

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

VERY NICE!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva

Reviewed by Mr. Ed

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

BUT we’re that same person

How true, and how so very sad.

Reviewed by Edwin Hurdle

Reviewed on January 13, 2009

A well written and excellent poem.take care

Love and Hugs
Edwin

Reviewed by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen

Reviewed on January 12, 2009

Great write here Bonnie. Keep writing and be blessed
In Christs Love
Michelle~

Reviewed by Ed Matlack

Reviewed on January 12, 2009

They also carry disease's that now I have gotten, even though I tried to stay outside the nursing home as much as possible...still a rightful write...ed