Category Archives: Poetry

If an elder were to elder

If an elder were to elder you how much eldering would you admit? Would you in your turn elder the elders? :- Doug.

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Sigh

Sigh over not-having-been or do so now :- Doug.

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Give us, elder

Give us, elder, questions to provoke a dozen or more generations no answers to shorten our efforts we need deeper to dig though love and big picture point we, we must try our souls :- Doug.

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generations ever widening

Eldering is caring for generations in ever widening circles :- Doug.

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Stitches give clues

The stitches give clues to the threading among threads the fabric of life’s millennia :- Doug.

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As they wheel by

It goes This life We snatch morsels Catch sunsets As they wheel by :- Doug.

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You who work in nursing homes:

You who work in nursing homes: You work with people (I hope) Do you see more deficits or more worth? :- Doug.

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Say this every time

This will be good Say this every time :- Doug.

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Swimming the sky

There is a beauty to this blue; I am swimming the sky. :- Doug.

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Unexchangeable

This one unexchangeable person offers me converse :- Doug.

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contriving how to live

Each day I start anew contriving how to live :- Doug.

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turns, spins, flows

Conversation turns and spins dialogue flows both to love & converse more :- Doug.

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We elders need to work

We elders need to work to bring meaning and being together in flesh :- Doug.

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Find the impossible unity

Find the impossible unity in unexpected fruitfulness :- Doug.

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Meaning I might forget

Meaning I might forget. What then? Will I have no meaning? Will meaning have anyone? :- Doug.

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What is the bending of the age?

What is the bending of the age? Is the wind blowing from the north or east? Sand your fingertips, larger rhythms taste :- Doug.

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An era that wants to end

An era that wants to end perhaps we’re in one now we can help the wanting :- Doug.

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