| Author | Message | ||
| Michael MV
Advanced Member Username: michaelv Post Number: 915 Registered: 11-2003 |
a dwarfed body like the daystar blocked in ice slowly trickling away from the warm stream; the puddle regains remembering the way back to the water taken through thin air | ||
| Christopher T George
Intermediate Member Username: chrisgeorge Post Number: 1304 Registered: 12-2004 |
Hi MV A poignant and interesting look at the painful reality of Alzheimer's. Nicely done. You might tighten up the end-- remembering the way back to water through thin air Chris Editor, Desert Moon Review http://www.desertmoonreview.com/ http://chrisgeorge.netpublish.net/ http://www.actorssceneunseen.com/ripper.asp | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Advanced Member Username: garyb Post Number: 4097 Registered: 07-2001 |
Good read, good suggestion from Chris. away from the warm stream; the puddle regains I would break at stream. Thanks. Gary Drop in read the new MindFire, 2005's first Go in through http://www.mindfirerenew.com/ to get to the issue in a click or two. | ||
| D.J. Clowes
Board Administrator Username: sis Post Number: 216 Registered: 11-1998 |
I wish I had read this 20 years ago MV. My grandmother had alzheimers and I took care of her myself for about a year. This poem would have given some meaning the times that were so difficult and I knew so little then. Thanks Sis | ||
| M
Moderator Username: mjm Post Number: 3156 Registered: 11-1998 |
This touched the deepest reaches of my heart, MV. My mother is currently experiencing memory loss which we assume is Alzheimers and it is heartwrenching. She is slipping away from us and there is nothing we can do. I want to go and pound on someone's chest about the injustice of it all, but there is no one to blame. It is a disease process beyond anyone's control. You have given the victim dignity here and often that is lost along with memory. I thank you for posting this -- it made me weep. | ||
| Kathy Paupore
Intermediate Member Username: kathy Post Number: 2069 Registered: 12-2003 |
MV, you have said much here in few words. Well done.  K | ||
| Laurie Byro
Intermediate Member Username: lauriette Post Number: 1020 Registered: 11-2003 |
very good Michael you do these so well laurie |
