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Poetry comes from playfully
the other way
?

:- Doug.

If we put just a little into this knowing-sphere, pump in a little daylight, we expand the balloon, we have more surface with which to touch, to be touched. Some day it pops! and we become all with all.

:- Doug.

I am pulled today by the between. David Goff made a practice of not knowing. I shall too.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1748

A person aging attentively—an elder—must complexify: adding years adds experiences, some of which will require learning, that is changes which broaden and challenge awareness, making one more nuanced. One takes more into account. One’s world is juicier, richer, meatier.

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Hopefully my poetry
all poetry
changes you
in some
goofy way

:- Doug.

How little our culture accustoms us to see of one another—especially elders!

:- Doug.

I cannot remember all this!
I will have to rely upon
the moment, you, and the between

:- Doug.

We are long range weather forecasters: we see an indeterminate number of forces at play, at play. We might know what it means. Our forecast gains in confidence as time extends.

:- Doug.

Rumi’s meeting place
feels like beyond
more truly between

:- Doug.

Life is what keeps me up at night.

:- Doug.

Elders develop
a sense of direction
a reverence for wonder
an exasperating vulnerability

:- Doug.

Posit a bell shaped curve describing the population of those over 60. Posit on the left those 16-20% who are chronically ill, decrepit of mind or body, needy of much assistance. Picture in the middle the 60% or so who are doing fine, the ones society effuses over as healthy and “still sharp.” Then turn your attention to the 16-20% on the farther curve: these let us call elders.

:- Doug.

Men have power
women too
than over
more’s the power with
more’s in together togethers

:- Doug.

Come live with me in the pregnant liminal.

:- Doug.

From wonder into wonder
Elders

:- Doug.

We lack the cultural supports for eldering. This is a task for elders.

:- Doug.

Let us grow bigger colorful chewy pictures of elders!

:- Doug.

Life is loving me, calling me, pulling me in opposite directions: enjoy life, engage life, do my work, do the work.

:- Doug.

Can verbs and adjectives stand alone? What if we let them? Whisper. Evocative. Playful.

:- Doug.

Am feeling a pull to the day’s work, and a pull to the larger, larger whispers, whispers. Whispers are evoking in me.

:- Doug.

A prophet
A poet
Intends all possible

Whether by this person
Seen or unseen

We can see more
Without words

:- Doug.

Movements of movements
whispers of whispers
we seem to be

:- Doug.

Here at the brink of life we begin to see how ephemeral we are. We catch wind of the whispers coming to us, emanating from us, the whispers we are, stirring, stirring.

:- Doug.