Category Archives: Poetry
When I water my garden
When I water my garden, I am moving water around: from too deep for the plants to benefit, to the top where it percolates through their roots and back again. Flowing and returning like love. :- Doug.
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The day comes & the day goes
The day comes & the day goes Is it a conduit for my life Or am I conduit for the day? :- Doug.
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After paper is shreds & pen is broken
After years of writing —contracts, letters, Wills, poems— I find I have been forming myself working on what remains after paper is shreds & pen is broken :- Doug.
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Ir is the name of the window
Ir is the name of the window Through which I the poet enter— Irrelevance Irreverence Sometimes its meaning skips the Ir :- Doug.
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To squeeze out a single drop
To squeeze out a single drop of your life’s essence is your highest gift to the world :- Doug.
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Blackberry bushes
Blackberry bushes Prickly briers bearing sweet This conversation :- Doug.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The higher heart
The higher heart in this person seek out speak here :- Doug.
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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.
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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 and nursing homes, Poetry
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