Category Archives: Poetry
Wrap stories in stories
Let us learn ways to wrap stories in stories to sneak lessons deep inside lessons :- Doug.
Backwards of the teaching
What we have to teach we have to discover backwards of the teaching :- Doug.
Aging is to eldering moments
Aging is to eldering moments as the stars and moon are to northern lights :- Doug.
& dancing northern lights
Dew and freshness starts the day In light we make our hay Infants become adults And do we stop Before becoming elders? Before moon & stars & dancing northern lights? :- Doug.
Speak in novels and poetry
Speak O Elder to the grandchildren Speak in novels and poetry in music, dance, in things that last and things that don’t Speak in work and especially in play Speak in all your voices For the grandchildren :- Doug.
Ask a grandchild
Ask about meaning ask a grandchild :- Doug.
Our role
Our role develop meaning with grandchildren :- Doug.
cookies too
Grandma knows you wants what’s good for you cookies too has larger experiences ask her help :- Doug.
We may die
Growth is dangerous we may die eventually we die :- Doug.
When we are young
When we are young the great act is play When we are adult it is woman-man entwining When we are elder the great act is a converse that is play infinite play :- Doug.
Elder years:
Elder years: only pleasant? also useful? :- Doug.
Shape the grandchildren?
Shape the grandchildren? Shape the circumstances? Shape swirls moving among? :- Doug.
This poem
This poem has come my way up to you now to carry on it and me handing it over to she who will carry us all further still :- Doug.
A dimensional work
Eldering is a gift much more a dimensional work :- Doug.
Elders enrich experience
Beyond recounting elders enrich experience :- Doug.