Greenhill Manor Care Home
In partnership with Stephens and George Charitable Trust, Patrick Jones visited Green Hill Manor Care Home, Pentrebach to conduct a creative writing workshop with the residents.
Greenhill Manor specialises in providing general nursing, dementia residential, dementia nursing, respite and young physically disabled care and 13 residents enjoyed creating the group poem below:
IN MY POCKET
a group poem by the residents of Greenhill Manor Nursing Home
In my pocket
little bits and pieces,
buttons,
dolls
cold weather,
a comb,
my friends,
a hill,
me and my brother playing in the mountains,
sun and rain
falling into my pockets
where I kept them safe,
In my pocket
cinemas, ice creams,
vanilla and strawberry favours
In Maerdy
playing with buttons,
making things
in Pontypool,
playing ball
In Treharris,
going to the pictures,
Laurel and Hardy
I loved to play badminton
In my pocket
squash, tennis,
fish hooks,
fishing line
food,
worms to entice the fish,
I remember
getting up at 730 in the morning
the trout coming up
then fishing all day
and coming home in the evening
stinking of mud,
starving,
I had caught 6 fish,
felt so proud
In my pocket
is wanting to go to the cinema
and needing 5p
and I had to collect pop bottles
and get the money back,2p
and I collected two bottles
but was 1p short
I remember
my mum had a button jar,
she found a penny,
I went to the cinema,
happy times
in my pocket
in
my pocket.
