Memory Caregiving Poems

I can feel this thread running all over me, it’s like I am connected to the deep blue sea and the current is pulling me...

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The day my mind folded over the highway. 
in sunny Florida citrus surrounded me 
the breeze was just right as oranges danced. 
with lemons scents...

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The story has been told of how those brave souls wander in the desert drinking urine for water and having dust for their supper while...

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Sidewalks

We walked along the sidewalks
that paralleled the beach,
the ocean roaring in the distance
just beyond the soft sands,
an echo of all the waves
that have ever touched...

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by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett


However you say the name,
Mom, Mum, Momma, Mommy,
We all feel the same.

Dear Mother, Thank you!
For all you did for me.
You did...

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There’s Scottie in his chair
Tongue firmly in his cheek
Trying to wind up Old Noel, 
The highlight of his week.
Noel, over eighty, Veteran
Of the Korean War
Gives...

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the awakening again night sweats wet sheet 
a cold damp room filled with gloom screams 
wails sighs distant cries the war on the mind 
has...

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Caregiving is not for the weak
Giving care trying not to be bleak
Medicine changes, pill bottles around
Changing of diapers without even a frown

Pain and regret
As they...

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Dream 
        Swim through
          Cream the treats
  ...

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Life

Life is full of pain, 
and I don't know why? 

I do in fact...
know the Lord, 
I know Him... 
by name. 
He is with me....

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When thoughts cease to flow, where does ego go.
  - Unseeking Seeker
 

As your mind betrays, 
you are here yet so far away. 

Days,...

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Eutectic water ice with a time-extending elixir,
Casting a trivial covering of aqueous freezing.
In the puncture spirits of an exquisite spritzer,
The Esophagus of a beat glass,...

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So!
Well...

ummm....

When you are,
someday,
experiencing coitus
of some generic buzzy kind
common to all species
of loving life,

And you are about to have
a peak
polysensory 
full mindbodied experience...

Excuse me for interrupting,
but...

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We become stupid because 
we bother not about 
the consequences 
of our actions...

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One group of activists decided to fight. 
To see family lose their sense of might. 
Three people involved in each battle. 
For the patients each...

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