Short Memory Loss Poems

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


My Heart Swells and Explodes With Love Whilst My Lungs Collapse From Unexpected Memory Loss

heart swells and explodes
                           with love
but then i fall
          its chaos and death from above
Form: Rhyme


Memory Loss

Her mind was slipping away,
further and further everyday.
"Who are you?", She would say.
"Don't you know me?, I'm Ray!"
"I know him!"
Form: Rhyme

Memory Loss

an haiku each day
will keep dementia at bay
now then where was I.



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July 26, 2023
© John Read  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

After the Ghost

Form: Englyn Unodl Union

I touched a shadow and called it a flame,
It smiled — but was the same.
My scars whispered his name.
Love left, but I still came.
Form: Englyn

Medication Side Effect Usage

1

dry skin can make a 
superb etching art pad that
lotion can erase.

2 

lose of appetite
can help you fit into those
chic designer jeans.

3 

memory loss can
be an apology crutch,
when saying something.
Form: Senryu


Trump With Hair Thinning From Beginning

Trump With Hair Thinning from Beginning

He sure has an interesting way of things displaying,
Even though he is growing old  and hair is graying;
Big, brash boss,
With memory loss;
What next is it this moron may be gaily saying?

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

An Analogy of Memory Loss

It's a bit like...
you are in a bathroom
filling a hot tub,
slowly the steam 
covers the mirror...
and the mirror loses it's reflection;
that loss of reflection,
is my memory fading !


Elizabeth alexander          18/3/2016
inspired by fear: Alzheimers.

Nightmares

when i took the oath
i agreed to be expendable
can't blame anybody but myself
nightmares
night sweats
cronic fatigue
insomnia
anxiety
panic
depresion
aching bones
muscles
headaches
memory loss
chronicaly progresively
physicaly
mentally
aging too fast
the price for freedom
i took the oath
Form: Bio

Multiple Sclerosis

Memory Loss
Urinary problems
Losing vision
Thinking difficulties
Individual weakness
Painful moments
Losing balance
Extreme fatigue

Stress induced
Coordination problems
Life altering
Emotional rollercoaster
Reduced strength
Over reacting
Smell sensitivity
Irritable feelings
Suffering daily
Form: Acrostic

Memory Loss

Memory Loss

Motivated by thought,
realised mistreated actions.
I owe it to myself, 
to know I am enough.
Who do you think you are,
to make me doubt 
my fire
that burns to bright
for you to desire.
How strong can you then be,
if you can't handle me?
So I have a memory loss
of you and me
a stranger that ones
walked passed me.

Memory Loss

Visions of illustrated forks 
Pointing your direction
To the far away mystic night
Where the werewolves howl
Guiding you to your room
Filled with lights and sorrow
The same fearful sound 
Of clicking, like an unwanted houseguest
Or a stray dog with no name
Piercing the hallow depths 
Of your pitiful imagination 
Let your cranium  run wild
And point you to somewhere new

My 60th birthday poem

Today a new day begins
I'm wearing my birthday pin
Another year older. It's a shame
There go more ouchie aches and pain
Memory loss and weakened bladder
Trying to get up I splatter
On the floor and can not move
I guess I finally lost my groove
60 years old me oh my
There is a tear in my eye
From laughing at the pics
And all of the funny gifs
On my timeline being sent
From my crazy and good friends
Form: Rhyme

Don'T Tell Others :: Trine

Post-retirement, why eager to join class? I can take frequent absence as days pass. Attend class without study, no fearing. Teachers won't shout, know I'm short of hearing. On assignment submission day, I'll say Sorry! Mam, I didn't remember the day. She knows memory loss, but alas! They can't call parent though poor marks scoring Nice time for me on Parent-Teacher's day. ~x~x~
© Pratap Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Alzheimer's Poem

I thought it was tonight
but maybe it's tomorrow.
I wondered when I woke
with memory stalled in sorrow.

Then got up to a life
that faded into mind.
And knew I couldn't share
what others couldn't find.

Then started out my day
remembering what I could.
Ignoring all the others
that never understood.

Until I had to share
what some would call a hi.
When all my fears remembering
were pressures quickened bye.
Form: Quatrain

Body Language

Putting my best foot forward shoulder to the wheel nose to the grindstone my Achilles heel while sticking my neck out I soon found as with my eye on the ball ear to the ground when I put my back into it not with tongue in cheek but to keep my chin up heard joints creak the onset of old age memory loss an early taste for in the end I forgot to bend at the knees and not the waist
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member for a moment

In the rush of living       my heart stops 

between each beat

and for a moment
or maybe just half a moment

she is there.
Not once, but always;

Waiting for me
between those beats,

in every one of my remaining days.

“ I miss you.”

Written as if the sun’s passing     mattered more.

As if being uttered with muttered words,

heard only in the hollow of a poets’ dream,

could bring the past to life 

or resurrect a love.

Morning

Morning

When you wake up each morning a 
great start of 
the day is a 
glass of 
amniotic fluid originating from 
the womb of a 
woman with a 
baby or 
babies inside her so 
you can diagnose the likely abnormalities in the 
foetus before they can be 
abnormal. Possible side effects: part or 
total memory loss, instant employment in 
the public sector, parking tickets will 
follow you around, stalk you, and 
you’re voice box may turn to 
static mode.

Worse Than Any Disease

|| 2 feet from the mud 
on 6 inch heels breathing 
difficult words while screaming 
it's all for real
like kissing touching 
the weeping burning sun
hugging frail entrails 
--while shivering like
bleeding soldiers and 
we're all within a living 
hell /together my billion 
soul brothers and sisters\
there are some remedies
worse than any disease
my withering hands hold
your face as i offer
an invitation for 
memory loss ; 
you receive ||

:: 07/30/2017 ::

Wish You Were Here

They say -
 she's in a better place,
I know it's true 
 with all God's grace,
 those last few years
 were ..., well, you know 
 full of tears
how you suffered so, 
 never once complaining,
 the stroke, the memory loss, 
 unable to see, the darkness gaining
 the immobility, the endless pain, 
forgetting me;
God was kind, compassionate, 
 loving to set you free
 calling you home despite my tears
 but for myself, 
I fear
 I miss you every moment, 
   wish you were here.
© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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