Teenagers’ Poem About Alzheimer’s – Very Touching
Teenagers’ Poem About Alzheimer’s –
Very Touching
This poem is written by a young gal by the name of Jordan, who I believe we will be hearing a lot from in the future. Jordan lives with her mother and her Grandmother who has Alzheimer’s disease. This poem, just cracks the surface and there is so much more we need to hear from this brave and powerful young lady. One who is on a mission to Shift Our Dementia Care Culture for Teens and their Families.
After you read Jordan’s poem please check out The Purple Rain Project. Jordan will also be on Alzheimer’s Speaks Radio on Jan 23rd. I hope you can join the conversation! The show starts at 11am EST, 10am CST, 8am PST, and 4pm London with our first guest Sherri Snelling of “A Cast of Caregivers – Celebrity Stories to Help You Prepare to Care.” Jordan will be our second guest at 12pm EST, 11am CST, 9am PST, and 5pm London time. Here is Jordan’s poem.
Alzheimer’s
I love her very much, she is my angel.
No, she has not left me for the Man in the sky
but she has been driving on a road, a never ending road.
A road with all of her memories flying past her.
She stops,
jumps out of the car,
running after them,
and then realizing she’s lost.
Forgot where she is,
forgetting who she is and has forgotten her daughter, son, 50 year lover
and me, her granddaughter.
I see her alone, walking . As fast as I can getting close
and closer to her screaming “are you alright?”
With a blank face staring back at me,
she whispers, “I can’t talk to strangers,”
Then walks away.
Meet Jordon and her Grandma
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Here is a preview to Jordan’s Purple Rain Project
Help her spread the word by liking and sharing with your friends…
SHE IS JUST GETTING ROLLING!
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If you know of other teenagers who would like to get involved or need support please let me know by commenting on this post. Jordan and I have a couple of things up our sleeves and we would love you to join us. Or you can contact me through the Alzheimer’s Speaks website utilizing the contact button if you prefer to protect your privacy. Just click on the link below.
This is a wildly ambitious and moving collection, remarkable for its daring impurities: for the way Jordan trespasses the divide between the lyric and the narrative, the personal and the historical, always mixing and cutting the voice of the poet with so many other voices. M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A is a worthy succesor to Rita Dove’s Thomas and Beulah and Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Kyrie. If, like me, you are exhausted with young poets whose vision extends no further than their own navels, MACNOLIA is an antidote. These are powerful and necessary poems.
Yes poems like this are very important
Lori
You might be interested in knowing that it was a poem which took a fresh look at the fairytale of Hansel and Gretel that made me realize that I could be a writer. All my life, deep in the most secret part of my secret heart, I knew that I wanted to be a writer but I had never read anything that in anyway seemed to be anything like my life or my world so I assumed it was not something I could be. And besides, like most first generation college goers I was seeking a money-making career. I was going into the medical field, majoring in Bio-chemistry, when I saw a poem posted on the office door of my English professor Sharon Davies. The poem was Louise Gluck’s “Gretel in Darkness.” The insistent music of the piece beat a rhythm straight to the core of my being while the emphasis on all the women except Gretel being dead worked its way into my brain. I must admit, I had never even noticed how in fairytales all the mothers are dead. So here was a world I had known all my life and suddenly this poem was showing it to me in a completely new way.
Thanks for writing Dalton. Glad you decide to join us
Lori
I rarely comment, however i did a few searching
and wound up here Teenagers� Poem About Alzheimer�s – Very Touching � Alzheimer’s Speaks Blog. And I do have a few questions for you if it’s allright.
Could it be only me or does it look like a few of these responses look like they are left by
brain dead visitors? 😛 And, if you are posting at additional online social
sites, I’d like to follow everything fresh you have to post. Would you list of every one of all your social sites like your Facebook page, twitter feed, or linkedin profile?
Hi Fannie
Thanks so much for writing. You can get to most of my media site by going to http://www.AlzheimersSpeaks.com
I just started a new facebook page called Dementia Chats which is open to the public
I am also on Sharecare with Dr Oz here are the two links there
http://www.sharecare.com/user/lori-la-bey
http://www.sharecare.com/group/alzheimers-speaks
Thanks Lori
After checking out a number of the articles on your website,
I seriously like your technique of blogging. I book-marked it to
my bookmark webpage list and will be checking back in the near future.
Please check out my web site as well and tell me how you feel.
Thanks for taking the time to write Randy
I really do appreciate your comments
Lori
Hey very interesting blog!
Thank you for writing. It always make me very happy when people write and say they have found the blog helpful
Lori