Category Archives: Poetry
families come together
Good happens when families come together :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Your Will is not for ever
Your Will is not for ever —Re-read every two years Your love is not said and done —Repeat often :- Doug.
Posted in Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry, Wills
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I fell into a hole
I fell into a hole For a project & on a mission To get some wrenches Striding through the door My forward motion —Turned straight down Surprise, lost, unknowing Words insufficiently strong For my disorientation My world, my purpose—disappeared Scraping … Continue reading
Posted in Emergency/Crisis Medical, Poetry
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There’s a pill for that
Far more than “There’s an app for that” Our medico-economic complex teaches “There’s a pill for that” “There’s a pill for every that” :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Long-Term Care and nursing homes, Poetry
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Divine are the snowflakes/…
Divine are the snowflakes dancing, floating, flying divine is each each faces me and asks do you see me? :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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We can live until we die
We can live until we die giving receiving giving —a respiration :- Doug.
Posted in Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Weeding another’s garden
Weeding another’s garden A task I now own I’d hoped but not so easily done More work than I thought Why’d they give me this job? I have other things to do The weeds among the flowers The vegetables need … Continue reading
Posted in Estates: Administration & Probate, Family, Poetry
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Bringing heart to law
In our times, we are bringing heart to law. :- Doug.
Posted in Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Before you write your Will…
Before you write your Will Write a poem To each person in it Your poem will open to you Story and heart, Family and hearth, The generations :- Doug.
Now can we
All our lives preparing our homework for jobs for weddings for parenthood for a new career for company for dinner but now we are 60 or 70 or 80 but now is it finally Now now can we live now … Continue reading
Posted in Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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I’m turning red! I’m turning orange!
I’m turning red! I’m turning orange! Fire now I have, the brightness of my life Is now revealed, and in the wind I will dance! Dance with me! Shouted the leaf, and the whole tree Came alive with color! Soon … Continue reading
Posted in Eldering, Poetry
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The flame alive
The flame alive atop the candle our elder years are :- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Poetry
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Elder, at the pinnacle
Elder, at the pinnacle of adult knowing, you are called to jump into these wider openings you now can see so to grow us by community :- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Poetry
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business success can turn us
Our wanting can block & blur our richer selves business success can turn us from filling a world need to buying a new convertible a beautiful spouse & big parties with important people can keep us from seeing this little … Continue reading
Posted in Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Quotation: grief
I don’t have much knowledge yet in grief– so this massive darkness makes me small. You be the master: make yourself fierce, break in: then your great transforming will happen to me, and my great grief cry will happen to … Continue reading
Posted in Grieving, Poetry
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Write poetry
Write poetry—just to tell your truth. :- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Poetry
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Of heart & mind
Of heart & mind, caring is rather than commercial transaction :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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