Best Sundowners Poems
A Long Journey AlzheimersA 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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Categories:
sundowners, age, courage, father, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Caregiver On the BrinkBone-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 succumb to that one precious moment of rest; I am awakened to a furnace running full blast in a freezing...
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Categories:
sundowners, care, dad, daughter, father,
Form:
Narrative
God's NaI 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 me through the night
The DOC tells me my livers way toooo gone
Diabetes been setting in far too long
I’ve lived a...
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Categories:
sundowners, hope, me, me, drug,
Form:
ABC