Category Archives: Poetry
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.
Where the tunnels intersect
Deeper is where the tunnels intersect. :- Doug.
our comfort
Disorientation may be our comfort. :- Doug.
O how precious the daffodils
O how precious the daffodils If I’d only seen them once! A child’s enthrallment is pure— :- Doug.
buy or given?
Care is something you buy. Caring is something given. :- Doug.
We don’t see them move
We don’t see them move But the clouds do Look up—they’ve morphed! :- Doug.
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.
my life day
This is my life day —shouldn’t they all be?— a day in which I will live freely :- Doug.
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.
You are really heard
You are really heard It really mattered That’s what humans do :- Doug.
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.
Come, be heard
Come, be heard :- Doug.
Promise to hear
True invitation is a promise to hear. :- Doug.
Be the love
Be the love you once thought ought belong here. :- Doug.
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.