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Poems and stories about growing older,aging, deteriorating

Bridges and Other Kindling

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Relationships / tagged Aging / March 20, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You can’t sit in front
of the same campfire twice
as much as you think of how nice

You can’t be as young
as you were when you clinked
those glasses in front of the hearth

But just think if you hadn’t
what would keep you warm in the storm

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Two Pictures of Hawaii

Audio Recordings, Remembering, Travel / tagged Aging / March 3, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the east side of Oahu
when the sun comes up just right
you can see the mountains of Molokai and Maui

In picture number one
I am standing in the foreground
trim and twenties, trying to look like I belong

In picture number two
I am the camera, and the picture ages with me — If you look very closely at the faded picture you may see Maui – just visible on the horizon above the boat, and Molokai above the word one, to its left

Alice’s Father

Audio Recordings, Family, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Alzheimers/Dementia / January 27, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Farther and farther he sank
below the surface of dementia
And yet like a salmon
in his homeland of Scotland
he would rise to the words of a favourite poem
Grab the hook and leap
the length of the line

January is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, and Alice Major one of Canada’s finest poets

The Tattoos of Dorian Gray

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Secrets, Vulnerability / September 15, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Long sleeved and high necked shirts
could protect him from the crowd

But when he bathed the truth came out
in wrinkled cupids, moms and babes

Inspired by the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Image by Photorama from Pixabay

Hoodoos I Have Known and Loved

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Death, Wisdom / September 2, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Even and after
the soft stone below the hard
gets worn away by water and wind

A hoodoo can stand
for an almost, but never, forever

Until
one day
the body fails
and the great head falls
carrying its wisdom into the canyon

Image by LoggaWiggler from Pixabay

Mothers Day 2020

Family, Relationships / tagged Aging, Covid19, Separation / May 10, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mom
in the old moms home
in virus utero this year

God bless her keeping kicking

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A World Unknown

Haiku, Nature / tagged Aging / February 6, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Visiting the Home

Relationships, Remembering / tagged Aging, Alzheimers/Dementia, Connections, Kindness / November 13, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

hour by hour the wonder grew
how little they remembered how much they knew

Nah!

Uncategorized / tagged Aging / August 21, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Senior moment mostly
forgetting that I am one

One for the Cat

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Cats / August 8, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

One for the memory of a dear old furry friend to celebrate International Cat Day

Buffy at fourteen
down to only two speeds
catnap and catnip

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