The Stress Of Dementia
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The Stress Of Dementia
Miracle Man
9/10/2024
Dementia see’s lives, go quickly downhill,
And tests the patience, of one giving care.
A condition uncured by some prescribed pill,
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Categories:
uncured, faith, god, health, life,
Form: Quatrain
Poet Masquerade
..."Poet" is a word I revere, but I don't think I'm one.
My grasp of what a poem is, could be improved upon.
A poet understands the human condition and is wise.
He understands beauty. He sees it wit...
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Categories:
uncured, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Shadow
...Clouds bursting on clouds from the uncured rain,
Where stemmed wicks snuff out flower smoke,
Fissures that droop so much deeper—
The air full of seed will burn out the storm.
Where stemmed wick...
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Categories:
uncured, angst, deep, humanity, introspection,
Form: Pantoum
Binge Bewilderingleee
...I binged…bewildered…
I eat away my sorrow
I binged…a caged bird
I binged...I’m so uncured
I eat away tomorrow
I’m winged – set-free bird
I am delighted
I binged...I’m so immature
Gleefull...
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Categories:
uncured, angst, loneliness, mental health,
Form: Senryu
My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of Tribulation
...I’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subsid...
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Categories:
uncured, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Horizon Winkling Cosmos
...wobbling
earth
Phoebus
slipover
&
winkling
horizon
mind thrums
cliffhanging
...
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Categories:
uncured, analogy, autumn, creation, inspirational,
Form: Other
Ebony Blacken Body-
...His ebony tongue mouth discord;
Abundant flourished uncured;
Purple Heart death came close;
Browning skies fled past the nose to throat;
Blues blue brews asking hosts;
Blackness is the b...
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Categories:
uncured, analogy, body, character,
Form: Rhyme
Diet-Rite
...Spoiled soy burgers
and marshmallow spam
Find all the worms
in the uncured ham
Mustard stew a la mode
pistachio-flavored tongue of toad
Dandelion roots in stuffing of turkey
makes di...
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Categories:
uncured, food, giggle, health,
Form: Light Verse
The Heart In the Vault
...The heart forgot how to Love
after many years of
Uncured
past traumas.
The Mind decided
to protect the heart in
a safe place and
it was placed in a secure vault.
The vault would open
for...
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Categories:
uncured, depression, emotions, fear, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Forever For You
...If I could find a way to show you the words left unsaid,
From a time when it meant most, as we moved quickly ahead
Not knowing the dark curtain would fall upon us so suddenly
Burying all we did as...
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Categories:
uncured, loss, words,
Form: Rhyme
First Freeze
...First Freeze
Aspen leaves quaking shivering
Beneath coats of freak September snow…
Gold sequins sparkle through a cloak of ice
New sunlight captures glitter
Captivates - no fool’s gold
Ou...
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Categories:
uncured, autumn, fun, mountains, september,
Form: Free verse
Corona
...Shear troubles make us realize
What‘s the real life's worth
O, dear Lord please!
Have mercy on the earth.
We know mortality of souls
Yes we are mortals but
We pray thee, thy Beneficence
Lif...
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Categories:
uncured, allah, death, earth, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Two Greatest Commandments
...37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love yo...
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Categories:
uncured, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form: Limerick
The Union
...Shards of tears
engrave memories
like a tattered glass
recalling years scarred by desire.
she went mountain climbing
too high, gasped, got
wedged like a pinched rose
then hoisted by a fis...
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Categories:
uncured, dark, imagery, marriage, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
So Europe Took Their Human Ash Within
...In Bedzin and in Krakow they breathed in
What they denied in conscious thought or word.
The ashes of the Jews, the shades of skin
Penetrating lungs so deep within
The dead unburied mixed, in a...
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Categories:
uncured, absence, allusion, holocaust, murder,
Form: Villanelle
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