Glorious Dementia
aren't we all fading glory38 total reviews
Comment from barbara.wilkey
I do understand. I watched my dad disintegrate over time. It's a horrible thing to watch and not be able to do anything about it. Thank you for sharing your poem with us.
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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I do understand. I watched my dad disintegrate over time. It's a horrible thing to watch and not be able to do anything about it. Thank you for sharing your poem with us.
Comment Written 09-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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Yes, it is horrible, is it not? But thank you for understanding, Barbara. And...for reading me. Doug
Comment from Dorothy Farrell
Hello Victor, this is a sad story well told with so few words, and it is biographical. It's a very grim happening when a loved one has dementia and sometimes in time they are not the person they once were. I love the first stanza -
Can you see the light
emanating from
a bag of sugar? ........ Lovely, seeing something no one else can. Not all bad. Warm regards Dorothy
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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Hello Victor, this is a sad story well told with so few words, and it is biographical. It's a very grim happening when a loved one has dementia and sometimes in time they are not the person they once were. I love the first stanza -
Can you see the light
emanating from
a bag of sugar? ........ Lovely, seeing something no one else can. Not all bad. Warm regards Dorothy
Comment Written 09-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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O lovely review, Dorothy. It is always heart-warming when FS reviewers "get it," "sympathize or empathize," with what you have written. Thank you. Doug
Comment from Raffaelina Lowcock
The realism of what is happening to someone we love can take its toll. So accepting that this is the way it is, is gracious and the calmer we stay the easier it is to accept. The gentleness of your poem and your art resonates.
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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The realism of what is happening to someone we love can take its toll. So accepting that this is the way it is, is gracious and the calmer we stay the easier it is to accept. The gentleness of your poem and your art resonates.
Comment Written 09-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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Thank you very much. It is my personal bane to stay calm thru the vaugeries of dementia. Very difficult, but oh so necessary to do. Thank you, Doug.
Comment from karenina
I tiny vignette of what it is like to deal with dementia. Reflective and a microcosm...but, as if put under a poetic microscope one can imagine that a hundred "miscues" a day takes a toll on the person with dementia and the caretaker/loved one, both. Been there. Lost my sweet, wonderfully bright grandmother to Alzheimer's... Saw her melt like a candle flaming out over ten years until she had no clue who I was and startled when I, "a stranger" gently reached to brush her hair... Superbly penned. Six stars to be sure!--Karenina
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I tiny vignette of what it is like to deal with dementia. Reflective and a microcosm...but, as if put under a poetic microscope one can imagine that a hundred "miscues" a day takes a toll on the person with dementia and the caretaker/loved one, both. Been there. Lost my sweet, wonderfully bright grandmother to Alzheimer's... Saw her melt like a candle flaming out over ten years until she had no clue who I was and startled when I, "a stranger" gently reached to brush her hair... Superbly penned. Six stars to be sure!--Karenina
Comment Written 09-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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Well now, Karenina-that little review was, perhaps, better worded than my poetic effort. Beautiful, sensitive, and thoroughly knowledgable all in one. Nice. Of course, I have only read your review five or six times, where as my poem fifty. So, it should come as no surprise that I find your review a bit more refreshing. I still think it will hold its own though, even after fifty readings. PS I'm on number ten already. Smile. That was very nice of you. Doug
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Your poem was such an emotive masterpiece! One need not yell to be heard--sometimes a whisper from the very marrow is much more effective. I'm so glad my review meant something to you--you deserve to know your poetry REACHES people!--Karenina
Comment from June Sargent
Thank you for sharing such a poignant and touching moment. As this insidious disease progresses, it takes humility on the part of the afflicted one as well as the friends and relatives to accept the flaws. And to know it's nit their fault.
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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Thank you for sharing such a poignant and touching moment. As this insidious disease progresses, it takes humility on the part of the afflicted one as well as the friends and relatives to accept the flaws. And to know it's nit their fault.
Comment Written 09-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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No, it is not their fault, as I continually tell my mother when she is crying because she is so disoriented, in every way, yet her tears are quite real. Thank you.
Comment from rhymelord
Dear Victor,
'tis two long years since I last came on line to Fanstory and I am delighted to come across your work once more. Although I do not particularly like free verse, I do enjoy expressive and emotive writing like this.
Regards
Reg
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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Dear Victor,
'tis two long years since I last came on line to Fanstory and I am delighted to come across your work once more. Although I do not particularly like free verse, I do enjoy expressive and emotive writing like this.
Regards
Reg
Comment Written 09-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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Reg, I am humbled by your review. Thank you, Doug.
Comment from estory
I think your poem captures the pain you feel when someone you love has dementia and you can't make connections any more. the broken language, the split up lines underscore the theme of broken communication and I liked that image of the light shining in the bag of sugar. Very surreal. estory
reply by the author on 08-Nov-2019
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I think your poem captures the pain you feel when someone you love has dementia and you can't make connections any more. the broken language, the split up lines underscore the theme of broken communication and I liked that image of the light shining in the bag of sugar. Very surreal. estory
Comment Written 08-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 08-Nov-2019
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Thank you, my friend. Doug
Comment from rspoet
Hello Victor,
As poets have often written, most things fade
whether gold or memory.
The knowing doesn't change the sadness
of seeing that decline.
The path of free will is riddled with flaws,
but it is still a better choice.
Nicely done
Robert
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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Hello Victor,
As poets have often written, most things fade
whether gold or memory.
The knowing doesn't change the sadness
of seeing that decline.
The path of free will is riddled with flaws,
but it is still a better choice.
Nicely done
Robert
Comment Written 08-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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Thank you, Robert. I have enjoyed many of your reviews before, but this simply comes through to me as honest and empathetic. Thank you again. Doug
Comment from Therese Caron
This poem really hit home for me. I work at a nursing home and watch the deterioration of people that I become very close to. It is a fading of person that you have to be around to understand. Thank you very much for sharing this. It is beautifully written.
Terry Caron
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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This poem really hit home for me. I work at a nursing home and watch the deterioration of people that I become very close to. It is a fading of person that you have to be around to understand. Thank you very much for sharing this. It is beautifully written.
Terry Caron
Comment Written 08-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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Thank you, Therese. Please see my PM. Doug
Comment from ExperiencingLiphe
I'm sorry you're going through this. I can't imagine watching a parent slip into this and then having to deal with it as a care taker. Big hugs my friend.
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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I'm sorry you're going through this. I can't imagine watching a parent slip into this and then having to deal with it as a care taker. Big hugs my friend.
Comment Written 08-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2019
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Thank you. I see you understand. It helps. Doug
