{"id":380453,"date":"2022-11-28T06:06:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=380453"},"modified":"2022-11-28T06:06:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T20:06:35","slug":"senescent-sonnets-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senescent-sonnets-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Senescent Sonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s not dark yet but it\u2019s getting there\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n\u2014Bob Dylan, singer songwriter<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Darkness Domain in My Brain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where and when does our short term memory go<br \/>\nhow short are the memories held in our brain<br \/>\nas memory lapses go how slow do they flow<br \/>\nmany head doctors are at a loss to explain<br \/>\nthere are a variety of places forms and stages<br \/>\none common form is Lewy body dementia<br \/>\nit seems Alzheimer\u2019s is a phase where it rages<br \/>\nyou don\u2019t realize when it\u2019s being sent to you<br \/>\ngone but not forgotten it has got to be somewhere<br \/>\nreturning when we see a smile or hear an old song<br \/>\nunderneath a bald spot, hiding under white hair<br \/>\nsometimes we get the name right the face wrong<br \/>\nsing, \u201cwhere oh where has my little dog gone ?\u00a0\u00a0\u201d<br \/>\nditto\u00a0\u00a0my short term memory from dusk till dawn.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Please contact medical professionals to get help for the manamko (elderly) in your family.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Becoming Acquainted With Darkness<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(A Seven-Minute Sonnet by Joey Connolly)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c one luminary clock against the sky (the sun)<br \/>\nproclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.<br \/>\nI have become acquainted with the night\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014poem excerpt from Robert Frost (1875 \u2013 1963)<\/p>\n<p>As it is now my measurement of time varies<br \/>\nseconds minutes hours days weeks months<br \/>\nhave moments of darkness from time to time<br \/>\nslipping into forgotten backroads of my brain<br \/>\nto be unseen again in some time close by<br \/>\nsometimes returning when I stop and try<br \/>\nat a loss for reasons why I went into a room<br \/>\nand found in present darkness dementia doom<br \/>\nlike the song \u2018Who knows where the time goes\u2019<br \/>\nhow dark memory flows and floods through<br \/>\nour corpus callosum in any given amount of<br \/>\nor measurement of time in our \u2018long goodbye\u2019<br \/>\nI fight it by writing some poems to address it<br \/>\nof darkness and dementia I\u2019m not afraid or shy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not dark yet but it\u2019s getting there\u201d\u00a0 \u2014Bob Dylan, singer songwriter The Darkness Domain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":355846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}