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.
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.
generations ever widening
Eldering is caring for generations in ever widening circles :- Doug.
Stitches give clues
The stitches give clues to the threading among threads the fabric of life’s millennia :- Doug.
As they wheel by
It goes This life We snatch morsels Catch sunsets As they wheel by :- Doug.
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.
Swimming the sky
There is a beauty to this blue; I am swimming the sky. :- Doug.
Unexchangeable
This one unexchangeable person offers me converse :- Doug.
contriving how to live
Each day I start anew contriving how to live :- Doug.
turns, spins, flows
Conversation turns and spins dialogue flows both to love & converse more :- Doug.
We elders need to work
We elders need to work to bring meaning and being together in flesh :- Doug.
Find the impossible unity
Find the impossible unity in unexpected fruitfulness :- Doug.
Meaning I might forget
Meaning I might forget. What then? Will I have no meaning? Will meaning have anyone? :- Doug.
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.
An era that wants to end
An era that wants to end perhaps we’re in one now we can help the wanting :- Doug.