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Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

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The Shearer

The helplessness
of old age
the shearer
cutting the dags
from the sheep
freeing them from wool
encrusted with fly-blown shit
and maggots
got crossed in my mind
with my father's dementia.

poem by Vince Gullaci
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Waning Cynical

Saturdays at the patisserie,
I sometimes burn my arms, wrists or hands,
balancing hot pie trays and dodging chefs.
New scars overlie old, pink on brown on white.
I'm middle-aged Icarus with singed bat-wings,
in the slow burn of everyday life.
I plan on drowning in dementia,
I enjoy a good melodrama.

poem by Diane Hine
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Doctor's Visit

If today hadn't cooked the brain,
He'd risen like neurones,
In the way they do.

He'd awakened, jarring the door
So that nobody could enter
And stampede the nodes inside.

Spiders would squirm in beneath 
The bedroom door, they explained
To the gentleman always with grey

That certainty of brain dementia
Was valid as the hair on the chest.
White coats entered to chant a message.

poem by Naveed Akram
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Otherness

A silent presence
huddled in the dark corner
starts a notional dialogue
with a trust default.

I intend to proceed to-
explore the dementia,
accepting the uncertinity
of human symbol.

Snatched by ascending
tomorrow, you are not yourself
today, I am not myself,
clinging to sleeveless death.

Fear hauls you up on the
brazen rocks, you stand
alone in sun to find your toes
breaking the sound waves.

poem by Satish Verma
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What Comparison?

The displaced years
cling
to your body
like an extended death.
I wanted to see
what could not be seen
by clutching.
the lifeless doubts.

Emotions play:
potentials are threatened.
Remaining alert becomes a
punishment. I grieve for the dementia,
the night yawns. The walking trees
start swapping the roots. Folds of sorrow
whisper of morality.

The apocalyptic prophecy wants to know:
“Have you ever seen the hell? ”

poem by Satish Verma
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Eye Candy Lacks Artistry

wow these songs
are too shallow
hype not mellow

shot
commercial
wanta bees

for me
maybe
with full

frontal
lobotomy
or rabid

dementia
I could kinda
fall lowa

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Farther Away

To disconnect oneself
you push apart, from the stasis,
like flesh from the bones.
Coming home becomes dreadful
when you discover yourself.

A dark energy impels you
in a cosmos which was drifting
towards eternity. A fight between
space & time ultimately settles
for a second life.

Paralysed mind goes into dementia.
A riverbed, waterless, where you can dig out
the ancient marbles, edifice of a great flaming past.
It was obscene. At a hunger meet
tables were set with delicious cuisine.

poem by Satish Verma
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To Meet Again

Your mother died
a peaceful death
no heart attack

no fight
for breath
no death rattle

into the night
just a sudden
departure

like a switched out light
all her long life
concluding in this

a gentle going
death's soft kiss
a daughter

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poem by Terry Collett
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A Dark Chocolate Remedy

Dark chocolate is very beneficial
It is high in antioxidants that push a button
improving a deficient immune system…
also has flavonoids to help the brain function

When the elderly drink a cup of cocoa…
their cognitive powers seem to be improved
The scientific studies show promise...
a dark chocolate remedy could be approved

Wouldn't it be great if all it took was chocolate
to eliminate dementia and paralyzing strokes
It would be an agreeable and mouthwatering
treatment…retaining memories for aging folks

9/10/2010

poem by Theresa Ann Moore
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