Category Archives: Poetry

Where are all the butterflies gone…?

Where are all the butterflies gone In elder caring? :- Doug.

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We do not hear

The profoundest words we do not hear come in our own voices or in that of our neighbor whom we don’t much like or in those of the persons around us everyday :- Doug.

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Hearing each other

Hearing each other Can recreate Our world :- Doug.

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What I have to say

What I have to say is not as important as what I have to hear is not as important as hearing each other :- Doug.

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Conversation is hard

Conversation is hard I can never get all I want I am thwarted, opposed On every side My ideas turn to mush My arguments fall apart And possibly my mind Caterpillar-like I travel On too many legs Do we all … Continue reading

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Tell me your poetry

Tell me your poetry: What is the poetry your life tells? :- Doug.

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Thinking out loud

Thinking out loud Makes poetry Brings us closer :- Doug.

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Poetry is to

Poetry is to Endlessly assimilate Endlessly express Person is, too :- Doug.

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Business people sometimes

Business people sometimes As children caring for aging parents Act as if the song Did not need an ending :- Doug.

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Parted:

Parted: Learning there is, Growing, Becoming conscious, In parting :- Doug.

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in the telling Told

How we hold the conversation about living while we’re dying tells about us How we invite the conversation tells about us Where we don’t go The stories we tell The stories we won’t have All these our story in the … Continue reading

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Que sera, sera?

Why do we have battles with cancer or whatever is going to take us? Why do we insist on fighting our bodies what remains of our living? Did we ever own que sera, sera? :- Doug.

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To cause someone to laugh

To cause someone to laugh Is to love them :- Doug.

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What is white

What is white Must come down :- Doug.

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The skirt of the evergreen

The skirt of the evergreen is lovely in white and green and black the old lady will add to her skirt in spring and I seldom notice save on snowy days like today do I see when she dances with … Continue reading

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the longer it takes to retrieve

The more you know the longer it takes to retrieve it with computers we off-load some of this to archive perhaps we try to expand our memory by off-loading to our spouses! :- Doug.

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May you Whee!

May you Whee! Whee! seems to fill Heart and mind, you and friend, Spaces between, O, spaces between, Rhythm in, rhythm all about Sometimes we are not here Someplace else we are…or not at all Smaller than Whee! could be … Continue reading

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