THE CAREGIVER JOURNEY IN HONOR OF ELIZABETH DOLE
...COPING WITH HIS NEEDS AND MIND WATCHING HIM SLOWING LEAVE ME THERE ARE TIMES HE IS ACTUALLY BACK HIMSELF WHY THE PTSD CLOUDS THE ONSET OF DEMENTIA THISBIS QUITE TRYING BEING I MYSELF SUFFER FROM PTSD...
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Categories:
misplacing, allah,
Form: Naat
Balance
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Balance this please!
I'm on my knees.
Misplacing tens of thousands of people.
Legal tax paying people with families,
Across the seas.
Balance this please!
Businesse...
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Categories:
misplacing, 12th grade, anger, anti
Form: Free verse
Misplacing China
...I've almost forgotten it.
It got too big -
holes appeared,
entire towns fell through
my memory.
The Forbidden City
is a convoluted red and gold ribbon,
my mind cannot now untangle.
Images f...
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Categories:
misplacing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Bunch of Whys
...Could you tell me why most hippopotami
Weigh about as much as a truck
In the animal kingdom diets are not common
So they're really poop out of luck
A donkey with wings or an ass that si...
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Categories:
misplacing, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
A Bunch of Whys
...Could you tell me why most hippopotami
Weigh about as much as a truck
In the animal kingdom diets aren't common
So they're really poop out of luck
A donkey with wings or an ass that sin...
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Categories:
misplacing, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Out of Reach
...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 ...
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Categories:
misplacing, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Merlin the Magic Cat
...Merlin The Magic Cat
They said they chose Merlin early last month
Because of the colour of his ears,
Yet Merlin’s been stalking the gardens around here
For almost thirty-nine years!
They sai...
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Categories:
misplacing, 9th grade, cat, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Adhd
...ADHD
Life with adhd
Our brains work differently
We have a lot of hyperactivity
We are good at what we can do
But just struggle to focus as good as you
We can get distracted very easily
Excessi...
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Categories:
misplacing, anti bullying, deep, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
A Bunch of Whys
...A BUNCH OF “WHY'S”
Could you tell me why most hippopotami
Weigh about the same as a truck
In the animal kingdom diets aren't common
So they're really poop out of luck
A donkey with w...
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Categories:
misplacing, funny,
Form: Rhyme
What Goes Unseen
...What Goes Unseen
A gnome sits by the pantry,
Watching the in’s and out’s of wares,
Thinking how it all may be his.
Meanwhile, the sprites
take over the living-room,
Misplacing and mus...
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Categories:
misplacing, angel, fantasy, fun, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Lost and Found
...lost
forgotten, out-of-place
misplacing, defeating, succumbing
disappearan...
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Categories:
misplacing, creation, poetry, words,
Form: Diamante
Misplacing China
...I've almost forgotten it.
It got too big -
holes appeared,
entire towns fell through them.
The Forbidden City
is a convoluted red and gold ribbon
my mind cannot now untangle.
Images float of...
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Categories:
misplacing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Love-- Is What
...Death shall bring loves
Life shall also too
I felt compelled to sniff the likes
Around the air, so cool
Eagerly I looked for the tenderness of you
Deep into that darkness kissing
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Categories:
misplacing, analogy, appreciation, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Old Fogies: Part Ii
...But a strange change happens
at early nightfall
in those stuffy rooms and halls
and it suddenly becomes clear
all was not as it seemed
old folks transformed
so cunning and keen
sparkling iride...
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Categories:
misplacing, age, community, crazy, humor,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Worry Dear, I'M Here
...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...
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Categories:
misplacing, family,
Form: Verse
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