I mentioned I attended the Poetry and End of Life event. We were each given a booklet of poems. I'm typing in the titles here in case you are interested. If you can't find a poem that intrigues you, let me know, and I will type it in for you.
MAC Anthology of Poetry - 2013 - MAC - Memory and Aging Center
Poems by Jane Hirshfield:
Alzheimer’s
The Pear
The Decision
Pompeii
Vinegar and Oil
A Day Is Vast
Suitcase
Once, I
When Your Life Looks Back
In My Wallet I Carry A Card
French Horn
The Problem
Zero Plus Anything is a World
My Weather
Like Two Negative Numbers Multiplied by Rain
It Was Like This: You Were Happy
MAC Favorite Poems
Love Minus Zero/No Limit by Bob Dylan
Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man by Odgen Nash
Door in the Dark by Robert Frost
Prayer by Jorie Graham
Night Thoughts by Li Bai (translated by Herbert A. Giles
On Death by Kahlil Gibran
Cantares by Antonio Machado
Flags and Candles by Glyn Maxwell
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
The Tyger by William Blake
Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted by Shoshauna Shy
At the Twilight by Rumi
A Blessing by James Wright
Tidal Moments by Tim Garthwaite
The Pig by Roald Dahl
A Sentinel Stillness by Tim Garthwaite
Poems of the Month
February: Touch Me by Stanley Kunitz
March: Nontime by Julia Hartwig
Return to My Childhood Home by Julia Hartwig
Feeling the Way by Julia Hartwig
April: In Our Rented Cabin by Dan Gerber
Night Thoughts While Traveling by Tu Fi (TR. by Jane Hirshfield)
May: “Ninety” by Shirley Kaufman
June: Winter Garden by Pablo Neruda
Ode to Age by Pablo Neruda
Ode to Time by Pablo Neruda
July: And I Was Alive by Osip Mandelstam
August: Any Woman by Linda Pastan
September: “Had I Not Been Awake” by Seamus Heaney