Aphasia Poems - Poems about Aphasia

...the words coagulate, stuck in the back of my throat, I choke on the words I cannot seem to acknowledge, articulate, remember. aphasia commandeers my body as her vessel inarticulate and mute and......Read the rest...

...Let me start without an apology Because you, honey, need not be in apiculture Every second you bee apiece apiary As I fall for your rich honey droop apace Take me to space if you must but never......Read the rest...

...The End of Herstories It used to be called senility now Alzheimer’s, or dementia but in Agatha’s case I’d choose primary progressive aphasia in which her language capabilities slowly and prog......Read the rest...

... The Accidental Poet I have come to ......Read the rest...

...A gold rush began ... the search for words Twist - curl, tie a knot on the tongue : - "Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry" - "Seth at Sainsbury’s sells thick socks" - "If S......Read the rest...

...Memories of future events Recollections of measures ahead Reminiscence in fast forward Aspirations leaping back Projections of past reckoning Icebergs frozen in ......Read the rest...

...Tear drops roll down my cheeks. Blessed with mirror-touch synaesthesia! Claircognizant empaths - inflame my aphasia. I know, I know - the die is cast! Eh! Still words - pierce through my silent h......Read the rest...

...LOVE’S GRIEF Dear LORD, I am grieving My innards quiver Once words flowed Now are silenced Aged health changes Seem cruel- Dementia, aphasia Memories, experiences leave; Those who remain ......Read the rest...

...If there's kingdom of bad moments, Its oubliette's sticking; Where none owns any place, but- Places own the being. Cramping inside bad, ugly cells- In graveyards locking in, Inside cars or sp......Read the rest...

...Lamenting for the loss of words They were there and now they......Read the rest...

...I am being held hostage by a pressing force of incognizant, and I am impregnated in a world of spiraling storms of confusion. Fragments of memories prods my mind. Sudden and swift memories of my f......Read the rest...

...…obliterated night of the seven seasons tickets and thickets and trains collide into the cliché of licking tongues wed to the bred moan of capitalism (grinning gothic gremlin) smile of a nurse......Read the rest...

...I cannot show it. I have promised. Building up in the shores of my thoughts and soul, An overflowing ocean of emotions I'll risk, To drown in my own sorrows and tears, in folds. Tirelessly I lo......Read the rest...

...Letters, words, and phrases Once piled, filed in my brain Dumped went all the drawers Words went all askew Files, unsorted, scattered Mixed messages now astrew ......Read the rest...

...I fall into unknown reasons I lay wanting,needing Convolution,soul sucked dry Aphasia,alone within A battered shell,augmental decay Life slowly passes away Debilitated to my dismay An accident......Read the rest...