Category Archives: Poetry

Even the weeds

Even the weeds give us flowers :- Doug.

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I am cumulus

I am cumulus a dot Often stratus a painted closing in ceiling Or cirrus some careless brush strokes Ever moving morphing hiding glowering present absent Like poetry, reader, you make me change me lose me :- Doug.

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Where the tunnels intersect

Deeper is where the tunnels intersect. :- Doug.

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our comfort

Disorientation may be our comfort. :- Doug.

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O how precious the daffodils

O how precious the daffodils If I’d only seen them once! A child’s enthrallment is pure— :- Doug.

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buy or given?

Care is something you buy. Caring is something given. :- Doug.

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We don’t see them move

We don’t see them move But the clouds do Look up—they’ve morphed! :- Doug.

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whom we thought

We are not whom we thought we were Nor whom we might have wanted to be Yet here we are and we may then Find new selves in meeting birthed :- Doug.

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my life day

This is my life day —shouldn’t they all be?— a day in which I will live freely :- Doug.

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our riddle

our riddle touch our gossamer strands thee me the all there is especially when one of us is held in the arms of dementia: our brain shriveling away from us :- Doug.

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You are really heard

You are really heard It really mattered That’s what humans do :- Doug.

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the person she or he was

She or he might not be the person she or he was, but she or he is not less than a person. :- Doug.

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Let us write lists of our dying

Let us write lists of our dying Things important even significant Dare to see the larger Maybe it will be poetry Our life as poem :- Doug.

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Come, be heard

Come, be heard :- Doug.

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Promise to hear

True invitation is a promise to hear. :- Doug.

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Be the love

Be the love you once thought ought belong here. :- Doug.

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You know is best

Do the thing You know is best The best of your self Beyond mere excellence That which is worth a life :- Doug.

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