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Short Dementia Poems

Short Dementia Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Dementia by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Dementia by length and keyword.


Former Hero
Former hero
exists in memory care
dementia...

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Categories: dementia, america, hero,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Dementia
her twilight moment
memory gone forever
fluttering a bit...

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Categories: dementia, age,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Word Thief
dementia, an insidious thief, slowly stealing my every thought...

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Categories: dementia, dark, depression, self,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member dementia
president Biden
salutes a soldier 
who isn't there
~dementia
...

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Categories: dementia, political,
Form: Political Verse
Dementia
Dementia
 'Where are you going?'
 I have no idea
 What I'll be doing...

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Categories: dementia, caregiving, confusion, irony, lonely,
Form: Light Verse



Dementia
confusion creeps up
stealing their reality
heartache for loved ones...

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Categories: dementia, age, mental illness, sad,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member I Think
artificial
intelligence
leads to 
dementia
in
difference -
I 
think...

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Categories: dementia, absence, age, funny, internet, sad,
Form: Free verse
Jealousy Is a Dementia
jealousy is a dementia lacking judgemental capacity that less hearted one does...

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Categories: dementia, jealousy,
Form: Monoku
Dementia
Bereft of rational thoughts accumulated insidiously disappearing into nothingness...

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Categories: dementia, age,
Form: I do not know?
Profound Poetic Picture
dementia opens the blind and says, "good morning Jesus," letting the Son shine through...

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Categories: dementia, blessing,
Form: Monoku
Dementia
It's easier to meet them 
In their world, then to
Force our world upon them

Dementia....

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Categories: dementia, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Never Leave Me Lonely
I'd die without you by my side
Heart stopping dementia

Being without you when i died
...Hell...

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Categories: dementia, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time For The Curtain
Time For The Curtain
Does the heart need to be on stage
When the brain can't remember its lines...

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Categories: dementia, death,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Watching Alzheimers
watching one you love
fading into something less
tortures your spirit

Edward J Ebbs - July 12, 2016...

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Categories: dementia, analogy, body, care, caregiving, confusion, courage, cry,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Prim and Proper Miss A
prim and proper Miss A
Naked as a jaybird
in throes of dementia
chose the wrong room
old man screams for help...

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Categories: dementia, age,
Form: Limerick
Waking Up
Bursting though dementia the edges of confusion
I found eyes closed my spirit laughing
as crashing dreams ended....

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Categories: dementia, dream, life, morning, sleep, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Warning From An Old Man
Be careful whom you accuse of dementia
For you may be the one soon in absentia

written September 27, 2021...

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Categories: dementia, health,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dementia
Parts missing; untangling ethereal strands. - - - - - - - (C) John C Michaels, 27 August 2017
...

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Categories: dementia, age, loss, memory, mental illness,
Form: Lanterne
Forever In Shade
The light of remembrance
  the will’s DNA

Entombed by dementia
 —forever in shade

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Categories: dementia, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Forever In Shade
The light of remembrance,
  the will’s DNA

Entombed by dementia
 —forever in shade

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Categories: dementia, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Memory Loss
an haiku each day
will keep dementia at bay
now then where was I.



Haiku in the Mirror Contest   
Sponsored by Matt Caliri
July 26, 2023...

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© John Read  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dementia, humor, memory,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member eggceptional mess
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

...

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Categories: dementia, birth, childhood, political, religion,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dementia
Face fractured with fear.
Fumbling, foraging , through frames,
Strangers in photos,
Calling from a distant shore
"Come, join us, be loved once more"...

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Categories: dementia, age, devotion, feelings, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Tanka
Old Lady From Crewe
The was an old lady from Crewe
That was all of a ditherydoo
She had hidden her dentures
Forgot where cos she has dementia
Now has trouble eating her stew...

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Categories: dementia, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Always On My Mind
her little grey cells eroded by dementia no band-aid can cure senryu on mind contest Sponsored by Jenish Somadas 1/29/20
...

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Categories: dementia, mental illness, mother daughter,
Form: Senryu

Book: Shattered Sighs