Reading poetry with residents is a passive relaxing and spiritual activity. You can turn poems into an intellectually stimulating activity by having residents create their own simple poems!

Simple ideas to use as themes for a poem writing session are playing a classic song to residents, and asking them to write a short poem, something like 5 to 10 lines long. For a twist in poem writing, suggest to residents that they write specific types of poems like a Haiku, a three line Japanese poem.

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