Category Archives: Poetry
Fix her hair
My wife needs to fix her hair I didn’t notice It was broken :- Doug.
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Like Scott toilet paper
Like Scott toilet paper Is the kind of lawyer I am— Soft, strong, lasts long :- Doug.
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I make poetry because
I make poetry because— life loves me and I love life something alive needs to be shared the all there is matters deeply to me —My feet and hands jangle :- Doug.
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If Mama ain’t happy
If Mama ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy If Daddy’s in the nursing facility ain’t nobody not in the nursing facility :- Doug.
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serious attention to our ripening
It is absolutely necessary —our society needs us to work on what only we only now can find and create— to devote serious attention to our ripening in aging —and in dying :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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to age until we are almost invisible
As we age we might just become subtle ever more subtle until we are almost invisible about 3 years later we die but subtlety is fun so we should still seek it :- Doug.
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let’s try this on again
A heart available vulnerable lost let’s try this on again :- Doug.
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Walk lost
This is the deeper level of practicing law with this one walk lost :- Doug.
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You are my heart-work
You are my heart-work. :- Doug.
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You my parents and grandparents
A thread of life there runs from you my parents and grandparents back through eons of eons through me to you my children and grandchildren on forward eons of eons it counts for us as immortality ’tis up to me … Continue reading
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When I’m 95
In every way that matters When I’m 95 When you’re 95 We will see In every way that matters We are just like each other Let’s start now :- Doug.
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Conversation is not words
Conversation is not words rather an exchange of being poetry flowing :- Doug.
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This circus belongs
This circus belongs to us clowns and elephants greasepaint and canvas laughter and applaudable unreality this much is real: you belong to me, I to you and the whole world one belongs to us :- Doug.
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Among us
Among us wholeness moves Totally present Absolutely invisible :- Doug.
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open me
My silence can open me to nuances of you :- Doug.
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If money
If money is the only thing you can think to give away how poor! :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry, Wills
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