A few acrostics on Dementia were written for the MOOC Literature and Mental Health (2016) in some visuals

Reading Dementia – https://idabrandaomooc.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/reading-dementia.jpg?w=614

Recollections from childhood

Evoking affections, long term memories,

Acts of infirm thoughts, misunderstood,

Dementia was tied up in knots and miseries.

It appeared like a quiet crisis, settled for centuries.

No voice in those shadows of mind could

Grasp the moment and tomorrows, cross boundaries.

 

Dementia Acrostic – https://idabrandaomooc.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/dementia-acrsotic-2.jpg?w=614 

Daffodils wandering,

Emerging from the crowd.

Mystic eyes conquering

Endless sky clouds.

Now the mind floats, pondering

Transitions, illusions allowed

In vacant swirl dancing

An a host breeze around.

 

Dementia Acrostic (2) – https://idabrandaomooc.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/dementia-acrotic.png?w=614

Deep solitude of winter years,

Eroded and broken mood,

Melancholy drowns the spirit of any joy,

Ends the hope on the rude horizon.

No remembrance, just confusion,

Trembling thoughts, childhood recalls,

Impossible dreams, nothing understood.

Are we here? Or falling in sleepy streams?