Dementia Poems - Poems about Dementia

... * death is a process of many stages, and dementia can be one of the ugliest … Dad taught me many lessons in life, and he fought to the last to retain what sensibilities he could. I miss you, RT. * ......Read the rest...

...(FICTION, PLEASE. It is easy for me to write in the first person, but nearly all my poems are fiction. Please don't attribute this poem to me. I loved my wife to distraction. For ten years she......Read the rest...

... A good man of great stature A presence so strong Head of a company, head of the family The place he belonged Now he sits in a care home A toy cat cradled in his arms Imprisoned in his own......Read the rest...

...He visited Simon's mother-in-law, who had a fever. Did he do so because she was kin of his disciple? The elderly needed care. He knew this as a healer. Wasn't their psyche more than their physique......Read the rest...

...This dreadedness has haunted me since my abrupt traumatic brain injury followed by daytime sleep apnea narcolepsy unable to stay awake all day falling a sleep in doctors office on the bus trains in m......Read the rest...

...Put some cloves in orange elf, and inhale away. Wait! Yelled Orange Elf. Don’t I get some say? I don’t like my petootsie touched like that. Or any of my other body parts, that’s a fact! But he ......Read the rest...

...Many decades ago, You would rarely here Anything about or see An elderly person Act up, they use to Call it senile but this day And time, it is hard to believe That so many people have come ......Read the rest...

...I tried, I tried To stop loving you I cried, I cried For being too crazy about you. You never loved me You take me for granted You thought I was demented You never cared for me Yet, my love......Read the rest...

... Then is life that's passed, its memories encoded in the brain, permanently, you would think, and yet, This is now and it has a name; dementia they say, a Latin word they say......Read the rest...

...Begins with Hyundai's my stalker fatal attraction rushing in front of our disabled vehicle then rams break hard causing us to panic my spouse and I both disabled this has cause severe discrimin......Read the rest...

...George was sitting in his favorite chair looking out his favorite window. He lived in an old farm house that his wife Betty and he enjoyed throughout the years. George was a farmer and loved growing......Read the rest...

...On Phantom Pain (Prelude) When an illness — such as blindess or dementia — Descends… Then Which direction of the heart Will you choose To mark the rising vibrance Of each new day’s ......Read the rest...

... I wonder if he knows He now lives with strangers in a home His family are not there He lives there all alone I wonder if he knows She is no longer by his side She made the hardest decision ......Read the rest...

... A shouting senile old fool tanking in the polls trying to save his ass. It would take someone a helluva lot smarter than Joe to gaslight me. ......Read the rest...

...Alabama's court has gone wild Their judge has dementia not mild What's their new ruling For Petri dish cooling? The fertilized egg is a child ......Read the rest...