Category Archives: Poetry
mystical craft
Eldering can be mystical craft (living is) :- Doug.
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Grows foul
Elders! Abdicate not your voices A pond without an outflow Grows foul :- Doug.
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In healthy times, Buber says,
In healthy times, Buber says, Winds of meeting freshen even the dullest It is incumbent upon our elders Even in unhealthy times To keep doing the healthy things :- Doug.
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She gets the better of me
She gets the better of me My wife in our spats “You said” —and instantly I cannot remember What either of us said Truly I was not there In the words Only in the emotions or In the between of … Continue reading
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to lead out
Eldering has often been storying around because humans innately know the power of story to lead out among us :- Doug.
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Whom will you elder?
Whom will you elder? Children and youth to imagine and fire an upward future? Adults and middlers to lift their eyes to stars above and worlds around? Your community to find perspective? Your fellow elders to find and create our … Continue reading
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Bring the people beyond
The purpose of eldering is expansion We have for middling years lived constriction Now is to notice—and bring the people beyond :- Doug.
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Sparkling mist
To educate—draw out—an elder one need only hint To draw out a child one cannot do the whole One must be satisfied with sparkling mist— And a certain trust in childness :- Doug.
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To miss these….
The soul is not in the body but the body in the soul The poetry is not in the words but the words in the poetry The conversation is not in the persons but the persons in the conversation The … Continue reading
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Threat and blessing
The more you converse The more we become interwoven :- Doug.
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Honor your insights
Honor your insights Notice the longer view O elder :- Doug.
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Deeply ever deeply
Deeply ever deeply how to meet? close your eyes to see where is the fear? the broken open heart? :- Doug.
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Stay on the surface of elderhood
You can stay on the surface of elderhood, or you can accept the all-in invitation, the invitation that requires your sacred :- Doug.
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