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Poems and stories about growing older,aging, deteriorating

You Can Go Home Again

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Afterlife, Aging, Connection, Death, Dying, Guidance, Transition, Welcome / March 12, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Death May Be Different

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Acceptance, Aging, Death, Dying, Grace, Transition / March 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Death may be different
for folks from the city

For farm boys
maybe as simple as
getting on the old bay
hands loose on the reins
knowing it knows the way to the barn

Impossible Things

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Alice in Wonderland, Belief, Faith, Fantasy / October 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The queen had believed, when young
as many as six before breakfast

The trick dear Alice
though you weren't told
is doing it when you're old

There's one now...

Aging Gratefully

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Discovery, Hope, Pain, Science / September 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Knees of jelly and hip of steel
bones stronger where they broke
but not more flexible

And yet, and still
quantum physics and poetry
light that bends but does not end

The walking is a little tough
the flying is going well

Respect

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, First Nations, Native Americans, Wisdom / September 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Pleats in clothes
go in and out of fashion

Pleats in faces
in some cultures never do

Illustration of Chief Dan George’s mother by Helmut Hirnschall from The Best of Chief Dan George

What Time

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Connections / August 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

"I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do" - Gertrude Stein

Can a photograph stop time

Do hours spent fishing
count or not count in length of life

Can east-west Concorde add
or harps in heaven be heard
without space between the notes

How long can a poem
write itself before it mentions it to me

Dad and Death at War

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Anger, Death, Friendship, Sadness, Surprise / August 4, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There he was
dressed and spiffed and happy
to be going to his best friend’s party
when the call came in

He took off his coat
and loosed his shirt to let the red rise

God had sent him hail and sometimes rain
but it was all hail today

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Beautiful

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Adoration, Aging, Love / August 1, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dad in the hospital with family around
and a light in his fading eyes

Looking at Mom and saying
Isn't she beautiful

And we looked at her anew and she was

Beautiful as the bride in the old black and whites
forever in colour for him

Climbout Sunsets

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Travel / tagged Aging, Memory, Wonder / July 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

John Gillespie Magee
slipped the surly bonds of earth
reached out and touched the face of God

Planes are bigger and faster now
I in my Aero Commander
commander of the air

Climbing at dusk have set the sun
on the lip of the world
and held it there

Have rode the Concorde
faster than the speed of sound
and faster than the earth goes round
that can lift it up where it when down

And there are times I'd best the lark
to try to hold or yet turn back
baby's smiles and love's first spark

I think Magee, the reverence would see
as we all fight the dying of the light
and try to touch the Sistine finger
a little longer before night

Peaking of Poetry

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Art & Artists, Creativity / June 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

They speak of writers past their prime
and nothing over forty worth your time

My trick
has been to start beyond that age
with my doggerel but a starving pup

Free to write
to a hundred with room left to improve

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