When I was a kid, I watched the winter holidays shift for my family after my mother died. And this...
Category: Poetry
Caregivers share poetry inspired by their caregiving experience.
Can’t stop the tears
This is a lyric I wrote when Rick was in a nursing home for several months.. We had this...
Similes Replacing Smiles…for Now
Dementia is like a thief, Victims are robbed, that is true Like a ship that strikes the reef, And...
Death by Dementia
Some deaths Are like the slamming of a door. Sudden. Complete. You are either On one side of the...
There for him
His independence taken by stroke; he fights back and I am there for him. Near, aware,...
Losing my dad to dementia
https://youtu.be/ICo3lpQS2ck Ken jr wanted to share this video of him and his dad with our...
This quiet hour
I need to wash my hair And take a shower But here I sit Enjoying this quiet hour I need to put up...
Exploding Waves
Like pent up ocean waves rush exploding toward safety on the shore; I write words; expose...
The Gurney
Because the gurney is unattended in the hallway outside my father’s room Read more on The New...
A Very Important Meeting
A very important meeting on the calendar for months, long before these mental health symptoms...
This
This. I hate it. I hate that I have to know what it is. I hate that I have to use it more and more...
Sad Eyes
I wrote this years ago when my mother in law was in an assisted living home and I noticed how many...
If I Could
I lost my husband on October 3rd 2017, after many health issues since 2007... Stroke, heart...
I see you
A few weeks ago, I was at the beach and I saw a young woman walking with her two little boys and...
Caregiver’s Lament: Rescue Me
Rescue me, for an afternoon or an hour, or a few minutes. I no longer want someone to come into my...
The yellow umbrella
Rain. Not the kind rain kids like to run in and lovers like to walk in, but the unkind rain that...
Moments
I want to do this. I don’t want to do this. I love doing this. I hate doing this. I can do this. I...
Cause and Effect
depression is weird. especially for someone like me, the always happy, always positive, bullshit...
Intuition & Equalibrum rap about Alzheimer’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4LItOvKyjI Lee, aka Intuition, shares the story of his father's...
Coming Into Flower
Her lips part – a naive rose readying to open as if to beautify the world by saying something,...
She
She has blonde hair and auburn eyes She has a laugh that delights the masses She wears pink...
Truce for a Warzone
When her body became a warzone, I sat wobbly-kneed in Dr. Smith’s sterilized walls, pretending to...
Changing Flight
Storms of stroke blew yesterday’s plans asunder. Weathering through its’ cyclonic turns, complete...
10 spiritual aspects of caregiving
Caregiving is love in action. Caregiving makes us practice patience. Caregiving causes us to look...