Category Archives: Poetry

Every sitting starts all over

Every sitting starts all over every meeting different do you see every elder? :- Doug.

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See more dimensions

Their world grows smaller eyesight fades hearing too confidants die away earning power steady gate gone all this befalls those aging yes that’s one way to see life two dimensionally in the face of at least three :- Doug.

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Shine as they disappear

Elders shine as they disappear Will you be one of us? :- Doug.

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Play with fire

play with fire dare to grow old heal the world :- Doug.

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About our age

This is called The Course: It is about our age :- Doug.

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Where words do not avail

Maybe those with failing words are traveling ever deeper into realms where words do not avail :- Doug.

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I an undefended elder

Feed me with the chance that I an undefended elder could be :- Doug.

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Poetry and law

Poetry and law exchange significance :- Doug.

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another kind of breath

Breathe upon us another kind of breath one you cannot hold, nor anyone :- Doug.

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Be moved so be

Move me Move someone’s grandchild Be moved so be :- Doug.

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seek over and again to understand

Meaning speaks through poetry I do not yet but must seek over and again to understand :- Doug.

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Travel in foggy air

Whoever says “I” must always and ever move I once thought myself solid, now I am dissolved Torn to shreds, scattered in acid pools I now touch wider ground and travel in foggy air Whoever is no longer is—more: affects … Continue reading

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Evanescing

Elders work toward an expansiveness, evanescing, and evaporating of being of, for, and by the generations :- Doug.

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To be shaped

How to allow ourselves to be shaped by generations to come? :- Doug.

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In creative moments elders

In creative moments some elders move beyond the limitations of their age :- Doug.

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Eldering reverses art

Eldering reverses art presenting the people with new problems and elements :- Doug.

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At last the real

At last the real permeating widening :- Doug.

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