Category Archives: Poetry
Who matters?
Who matters? These are Your family Even those you fight Who matters? :- Doug.
Posted in Family, Poetry
Leave a comment
For the people not in them
Jenny would help Dad to the toilet and puree his food in between feeding her granddaughter and getting her husband’s supper after a day gathering eggs and snapping beans Now Jenny has a job or two she could quit go … Continue reading
Posted in Caring, Long-Term Care and nursing homes, Poetry
Leave a comment
People feeling unsurd
The root of our problems is People feeling unsurd and unheen :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
Leave a comment
They put the old man in a home
They put the old man in a home Without e’en so much as a comb But he fooled them all: One day late in fall Eloped with his bride to the Dome :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Long-Term Care and nursing homes, Poetry
Leave a comment
Wanted: Kindly person,
Wanted: Kindly person, lover of old folks, life, and spreadsheets :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Poetry
Leave a comment
When we could have been
Much of what we do is unthinking forgetting to engage our profundity and collateral effects detector So that if we think to promise Mom no nursing home we ought think about her sitting helplessly watching us kill ourselves While we … Continue reading
Don’t promise me no nursing homes
Please don’t promise me to never put me in a nursing home Instead, take me to visit my old home bring from there my favorite things But do not kill yourself cleaning after me, picking up my weight, cajoling me … Continue reading
We create our deaths
We create our lives by what we say about them to one another. We do this by laws, social conventions, our own words and actions. In the same way we create our deaths. What death do you want? What death … Continue reading
Posted in Eldering, Grieving, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
Leave a comment
A jigsaw puzzle too big for the table
A jigsaw puzzle too big for the table is our society, our family, our life. :- Doug.
Posted in Family, Poetry
Leave a comment
Law is love put into words
Law is love put into words Law is therefore the child of love :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
Leave a comment
treating each other well
Law is ultimately about people treating each other well Law is about love :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Poetry
Leave a comment
paper thin skin
On my hands paper thin skin like my grandparents’ was surprised am I that I am not exempt! :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Poetry
Leave a comment