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Category Archives: Poetry
Here might be our highest value
When our eyes meet—
When our ears meet—
Passes between us humanity
& here might be our highest value
:- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Find happiness
When we live beyond ourselves
our little crises, worries and troubles
& weave our humanity
into others’ lives
we find happiness
:- Doug.
Posted in Family, Poetry
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Direct your days a little less
Direct your days a little less
Discover the more that’s here for you
:- Doug.
Posted in Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Will we be enough?
We are whole
as we sit here
Will we be enough?
This we test
if we but up and
throw ourselves in
:- Doug.
Posted in Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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The higher heart
The higher heart
in this person
seek out
speak here
:- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Home is the place
Home is the place where especially we the broken can be accepted as whole and as the best the world owns.
home
is
whole-making
is
home
:- Doug.
Posted in Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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We cannot plan for the future
We cannot plan for the future
—Unknowable as it is—
We can notice its aroma
Scan into the morning mist
Dress for the weather
:- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Family, Long-Term Care, Poetry
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The gift of one another
Open hand
The gift of one another
Open heart
The gift of one another
Lean into our circle
As human as you can
Offer and accept our highest
The gift of one another
:- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Poetry
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Will me a secret
Will me a secret
Playful one
Will me a piece of junk
That I have the fun
Of figuring why you’d
Will me that
Secret
:- Doug.
Posted in Poetry, Wills
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Alzheimer’s: modern Magellans?
“Right up to the last minute,”
Joelle said to me
“the soul has work to do”
Weeks later her words
lead me to ask
What if it were
more opening than disease
this Alzheimer’s
& these our tribe’s explorers?
What might they discover
learn & teach
these modern Magellans
freed of memory?
What is learning
if released from memories?
What is life?
Traveling unencumbered
by memory
how might they move?
Where go?
Maybe it’s we who
hold them back
with talk of yesterday
and this morning
and 5 minutes ago
& we their Sherpas
carrying their food
bedding & tent
while they attend
their ascents
:- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Caring, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Long-Term Care, Poetry
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Will us eyes
Will us eyes
eyes you have loved
ones with crinkles in the corner
ones which pull on dimples
ones with tears
and ones which
see into your deeps
:- Doug.
Posted in Poetry, Wills
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Bequeath someon a dream
Bequeath someone a dream
better yet, devise it
for it is real
:- Doug.
Posted in Dreams, Poetry, Wills
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