Forget Me Nots

Forget Me Not

2023/01/20Poetic Asides, PoetryAlzheimer's Disease, blue, dementia, forget, Forget Me Nots, grandma, poem, red, shadorma (form)pmw94 View all 5 comments

Forget Me Not

Red, not blue,
was her favorite
color; and
petunias,
to attract more hummingbirds.
I will not forget.

2023-01-20
P. Riggs

Garden Of Grace

2014/09/02100 Days of Summer 2014, PoetryAlzheimers Disease, ekphrastic poetry, Forget Me Nots, Grandma Grace, life, loss, love, memory, perspective, poem, shadorma (form)pmw94 View all 8 comments

“Garden of Forget Me Nots” (Photo Credit: Aini Tolonen)

GARDEN OF GRACE
(a shadorma)

Familiar
shades of blue and green
dance across
the ripples
of her mind; she grasps onto
fading memories.

2014-09-02
P. Wanken

Posted for 100 Days of Summer 2014 (Facebook Group): 80 ~ blue. Written in honor of Alzheimer’s Awareness month and my grandmother, Grace, who suffered from the disease.

Author’s Note:
Thank you to fellow challenge contributor, Aini Tolonen, for letting me use this photo in my post. To see more of her work, click the photo above.