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Best Sundowners Poems

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Premium Member A Long Journey Alzheimers
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,...

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Categories: sundowners, age, courage, father, old,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Caregiver On the Brink
Bone-drained, there is no respite, no split second of peace.  The “sundowner”, a hyper-active toddler in a man’s vehicle, never sleeps nor sits.
When I...

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Categories: sundowners, care, dad, daughter, father,
Form: Narrative
God's Na
I got sundowners,
I got Rainclouders,
And I cannot eat
I’m physically and emotionally exhausted
But I cannot sleep
I self-medicate with
Budweiser, Michelob, and Miller Light
Those are the drugs
that get...

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Categories: sundowners, hope, me, me, drug,
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs