Inspiring Older Readers

posted on 10 Sep 2019

For Dad : An Alzheimer's Acrostic

 

(In November 2015 we published Karen Argent's tribute to the role her late father played in making her into a reader.

Now, four years later, through the medium of poetry, she returns to her memories of him in his last years.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dad

 

Eddie, Extrovert,

 

Mum and family, making friends, musical,

 

Encouraging, enthusiastic, experimental, energetic

 

Nostalgic, nature -loving, not one to be told, never ready,

 

Trying hard, tetchy, toilet- trips,

 

Irritated, isolated,

 

Alzheimers

 

 

 

by Karen Argent

September 2019

 

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