Category Archives: Poetry
If to be alive has value
If to be alive has value to experience to see your mortality then a person of accumulating years and loosening mind is worthy for us to engage :- Doug.
loosed of her mind
Where can the person by Alzheimer’s loosed of her mind take us if we let loose of our needs? Is there some place more profound than we know? :- Doug.
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an old friend
It’s not unsafe to acknowledge a stranger across the room as an old friend. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Do you ever get
When you peel and peel Do you for ever get Onion? :- Doug.
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Hope usually limits?
Hope usually limits Almost as much as despair? :- Doug.
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Poetry is possibility?
Poetry is possibility? is limits? guessing births? meeting infinity? transcending self? :- Doug.
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Dentist office
Dentist office waiting room mother showing child a drawing toy together shaping creating the man in the boy :- Doug.
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Alzheimer’s stage
Maybe Alzheimer’s is not a disease A stage of human development Beyond :- Doug.
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O redbud
O redbud color shape indeterminate like you the larger pointing :- Doug.
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the color of the redbuds O?
What is that color of the redbuds O? purple, red, I do not know invites the eye, the spirit, and then it’s gone :- Doug.
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we set fruit
We flower, we leaf, we set fruit we shed our leaves, our seeds sprout we wither, we die, we go on :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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the voice for the soul of this community
I see we can be the voice for the soul of this community. :- Doug.
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What it takes is what we do
Meeting with clients calling the plumber alone trying to figure out something what it takes is what we do— engaging life :- Doug.
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Conversation is art
Conversation is art not present in explaining it only in its doing :- Doug.
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or it is absence
Presence is receptive Or it is absence :- Doug.
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