Category Archives: Poetry
mind with age grows hollow
The person’s mind with age grows hollow This is when we should them hallow For empty is the greater part of whole :- Doug.
The shell between us is thin
The shell between us is thin in places and thick If it does not crack here…. :- Doug.
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Reaches us
Sometimes we have to stay in the muddle of things till the other side reaches us. ;- Doug.
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When I’m 64
When I’m 64 was a land only rumored of Then But it’s pretty lively Now :- Doug.
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slowing-down time
We can concentrate on the pain, or we can move along to something else. We can realize that we are all in the nursing home with Mom, or deny it. We can realize that this is life and look for … Continue reading
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Significance is found in the eye
Significance is found in the eye, not in the thing itself. So it is that ordinary touches and motions can have more than ordinary significance. Changing Mom’s diaper, cleaning her, can be ordinary or an act of love. :- Doug.
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Is this courage little?
In ignorant space The open space of not knowing Of not knowing being Can we courageously here attend? Is this courage little? :- Doug.
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It’s good to be
It’s good to be attending you attending you it’s good to be :- Doug.
don’t know where this is going
I don’t know where this is going to take us. I know that your objection or detour is an important part of where we need to go. I need to go to some place deeper with this, for if we … Continue reading
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With us, lost
With us, lost :- Doug.
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scary to think
It’s scary to think getting lost is the way worse to have someone tell us even more to have them take us by the hand :- Doug.
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losing my way
Maybe I should display the wonder in losing my way. :- Doug
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feared the first day of school
Dementia might house wisdom even further growth some of us feared that first day of school :- Doug.
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It’s not niceness
Care is a financial transaction Caring is compassion Fellow-being (not feeling) It’s not niceness It’s getting to real :- Doug.
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forgetting what I planned to say
Our strength is in our weaknesses so mine might be in lost words forgetting what I planned to say in midst not beyond :- Doug.
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Listen with eyes closed
Listen with eyes closed Hear underneath words to melodies Larger plumbs us :- Doug.
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truly patient
Says the Alzheimer’s truly patient with Rumi There is a field out beyond knowing I’ll take you there We are frightened this one is not :- Doug.
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