The Lived Experience of Memory Impaired
by Miller H Caldwell — Read all 115 poems by Miller H Caldwell
I have been asked to address students at the Bell Health College on the subject of The Lived Experience of the Memory Impaired! Well the line set me off on my introduction to them by poem.
Monday, August 21, 2006
"The lived Experience of the Memory Impaired"
"The lived Experience of the Memory Impaired"
A daunting subject when others compared.
I could talk for hours about Dundee United
Or what I am doing for those not clear sighted.
I could tell of my time in troubled Kashmir
I think I recall, I did so once here.
I played my guitar then, the one with twelve strings
Sadly its neck broke – guitarists know of these things
So I have another, it’s quite easy to play
Its made in Japan, its come a long way!
2006, has been quite a strange year
Of meetings and encounters and one I did fear
You see I met Prince Philip and Usama Bin Larden
Er…Philip’s was at Holyrood, out in his garden.
Weddings this year were equally strange
On the hills above Loch Earnhead, I was bitten alive
And a Ghanaian wedding in Brentford, almost started at five
Plans for this Autumn are now being made
A novel I’ve started, and Royalties paid
So things look quite rosy, I think you’ll agree
But I know just what’s my capability
I still find I’ve shopped for the bread and milk twice
And what will I do with my stores of brown rice?
A list you’d think would help I suppose
But passing a bin, well, that’s where the list goes !
I’m tidy, at times, at other times not
I attend to the mail, I sign on the dot
I forget to put, the clothes on the line
In this recent hot weather, Joce didn’t mind
It’s names not faces that bothers me most
And my ability to set fire, to pieces of toast
So writing’s the thing for me nowadays
I know it is lonely and it hardly pays
But imagination is wonderful, it takes me away
To places and times for an hour or a day
Ideas and phrases, I like to nurture
In poems of the past and poems of the future
So let’s get on with the day and you’ll see
A Lived Experience of my Memory
Impaired as it is, but not….always… to me.
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