Best Alzheimers Poems

She sits alone with her distant stare
He visits daily but she is unaware.
No future hopes to speak thereof
Yet still husband, wife, and deep true love. 

Love Without Hope Contest
Sponsor Sara Kendrick...

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Im taking the train to alzheimers, cause it aint taking me, I might wait forever for a drug to 
set me free.So remember family,when my mind is truly gone,To tell me tall stories to keep 
me well informed. remember mum when you were the queen...

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The colors she wore clashed in confusion.
One sock grey, one sock blue
as her mind wandered ... where?
She never knew her name 
called out of the fog.

The blouse buttoned wrong
with sleeves too long
and she didn't belong ... anywhere.
When the fog settled in,
she stared out, turned around
full...

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A lways
L iving
Z ealously
H oping
E very
I mportant
M emory
E ffortlessly 
R emains
S pecial...

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Dear Lord I know you're busy and I hate to bother you
With all the problems in the world you have so much to do
I remember when I was a child being taught about your love
How you died to set me free and left your throne...

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Raintears run down
the cabin window,
and the lights go dim
for departure.

It's twilight here
on the ground and the sun
has just set behind
the western mountains.

The plane taxies around in the rain
for its takeoff run.
In a few minutes we will be up there
in the pearlescent clouds
attempting to catch the...

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A Long Journey
by Robert (Bob) Moore

For 15 years I watched my dad
forget the life which he once had
hour by hour, and day by day
the memories, just went away

A man of strength, and a hero too
forgetting things that he once knew
to fix a car. or carpentry
electric,...

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watching one you love
fading into something less
tortures your spirit

Edward J Ebbs - July 12, 2016...

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Dear Lord I know you're busy and I hate to bother you
With all the problems in the world you have so much to do
Yet I remember when I was a child being taught about your love
How you died to set me free and left your...

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Last week in paper I see story old nuns some die with Alzheimer in head, others still jolly old gals think good sharp things, making jokes Bishop's small dick, like that. Turns out ones who get Alzheimer cannot write good sentence structure when teenagers before...

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written too late for the contest, but wanted to post it anyway....

I had one of the most wonderful mom's any human being could have...she lives with me now - with decreasing dementia.., I answer her constant repetitive questions,
listen sadly to all of her accusations, but...

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Cavernous warehouse filled to the rafters
With all of my memories; forgotten laughter
Boxes unmarked, heavily taped, a dusty cluttered mess
Haphazard narrow walkways disappear into the dark abyss

Before I came to this wretched place…
Horrid, medicinal, cloying reek meant only to replace
The stench of slowing dying, tormented oblivious...

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It began with her misplacing things…and progressed to not knowing who I was…
She would wander away from home…for that is what Alzheimers does.

Yet other times she knew me well, she knew where she was…and when…
She was intelligent and lucid…she was my Mom again.

I never knew...

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There I was at work surrounded by a thousand stories of drama, love and surprise
when one of the greatest love stories I could imagine unfolded before my eyes:
 

They came into the bookstore…a couple old and grand
wearing smiles across their faces…walking hand in hand.

I noticed...

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this and that and thus and such
hearing, seeing, smell, taste, touch
which will old age steal? not much
  just this and that and thus and such

will I know beloved ones...
lifelong sweetheart? daughter? sons?
thanking those with whom I've dined
  not sure why they've been so...

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