Long Alzheimers Poems

This Poem is from the point of view of a loving wife living with alzheimers. A passionate and pure soul, lost in unfamiliar surroundings during the loneliest time of her life.

A Stranger in Love
 
My...

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This Poem is from the point of view of a loving wife living with alzheimers. A passionate and pure soul, lost in unfamiliar surroundings during the loneliest time of her life.

A Stranger in Love
 
My...

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The New World Order

Do not be in the dark. Open your eyes. This will sound shocking to most of you but I challenge you to look into this.There is a secret agenda. They put fluoride...

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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...

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PART ONE
You tap me on the shoulder and ask whose staff I'm on,
 Startled I try to tell you but see that you have gone
 Down the path of memory to a place of no-recall
Where...

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It’s weird…we are two peas in a pod…
I downloaded you like a Sims’ mod
Because you got me hooked on your looks…
You are as fascinating as a billion books…
  
You accept me, you don’t reject...

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The daughter suspected there was something wrong…she found it most upsetting…when she began to notice all the little things her mother was forgetting.

And the more she saw her mother falter…her misplaced keys…her lost glasses…her forgotten...

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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...

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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...

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One of the cruelest aspects of Alzheimer’s is the way this disease unfolds…
how it’s able to disguise itself, at first, as just a part of growing old:

It began with her misplacing and forgetting things for...

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Two score and a decade have past
It's time to be reflective
To take account of all I've done
And put it in perspective

All my wild oats are sown
The grain is in the bin
Sometimes I wish I had...

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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...

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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...

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Dementia vs. Alzheimer's
Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life.
	Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia. Alzheimer's is a specific disease. Dementia is not.

Could...

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Curse of mutation
On just one gene
Needing salvation
Get it clean

First comes the emotion
Then come the shakes
They get these notions
Everyone thinks they're flakes

Some are highly intelligent
But the wiring is disordered

(I am stilling working on this one. ...

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As worshippers in Australia lift holy hands to Heaven
I recall promises to pray for the ill, the aged, the convalescent

Praise-worthy voices dance exquisitely, inside a church called Hillsong
You and I must intercede for friends, foes,for...

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They loved to work on puzzles…puzzles of every kind
anything they could do to help improve their minds.

He would sit beside her as they completed crosswords
(always the left side he would choose)
He would help her with...

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No-one aspires to have Alzheimer’s…it’s a disease we long to defy….
one ailment we hope as we get older…will simply pass us by.

But one of the mysteries of life that fluster, frustrate and confuse…
Is when it...

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I’m ridiculous really…but, my future is set not on strife…
Drawing in my depiction 
Of you and me together…
I’m your bat and I collected your dove feather…
We have Alzheimer’s
It occurs to me that you live to...

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This is a place where confusion found a home
                          ...

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Where is my confidence I have so longed before to build?
I'll tell ya where... in the sewer next to rats and carcuses
These carcuses are the remains of my childhood
The moments when I was banished from...

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He was a giant six foot three
To his son a tiny boy me
I would stand tippy toe
Just to be four feet beneath his nose

Tough and ruff his generation was old
Strong and right he was bold
Dominated...

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The many days and nights caring for your disabled spouse picking up many pieces lot's of tissues for crying in silence you know you matter an yet you are the sole caregiver an yet you...

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I still remember the smell of lilacs,
as we would walk down a sun dappled street.
Everything seemed so vibrant being there with her.
Perhaps she enjoyed seeing the world through my eyes.

As we would walk down a...

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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...

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