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Poems and stories about growing older,aging, deteriorating

Raising the Titanic

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Aging, Death, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Illusions, Time, Wellness, Youth / April 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

with gratitude to Dr. Joe

Remember when we were old
and used to spend all of our gold
on lotions and potions and medics galore
and every new fat at the health food store

Tar for the seams of a sinking ship
thinking we were near the end of the trip

But if time
is but a wrinkle in thought
just think of all that we've got

Today marks the 113th anniversary of the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic.

Question for Basho II

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Youth / April 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Old frog leaps again
why does he get all the ink
young frog leaps farther

Question for Basho

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Flowers, Fruit, Maturity / April 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Haiku is always
crushing on cherry blossoms
what about cherries

Bone on Bone

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Aging, Bravado, Experience, Healing, Injury, Masculinity, Pain, Therapy / February 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The achy side of middle age
Julia Alvarez - The Cemetery of Untold Stories

It is well though untrue to say
my knees got like this from kneeling
though might pray to have them bend again

At Robert Bly's men's gatherings
they pinned a ribbon where each wound
had come from trying to be men

I won't bore you with the many mine
nor gie the younger advice to ignore
as I would have ignored it in my youth
and when they learn put ribbons on
blue ones for pride and red for regret

Wisdom Ism

Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth / tagged Aging, Learning / February 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If your parents didn't give you smart
don't lose heart

Just eat your spinach
and peel your eyes
there may still be time for wise

Dog Years

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, pets / February 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The dog
grows old beside us

Same distance
at a greater pace

And teaches us by not
giving it much thought

Image by z75217 from Pixabay

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Volvo Yearning For Its Youth

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Aging, Cars, Change, Experience, Perspective, Transportation, Trump / January 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

White hood turning gray
hail pocked like parked
at the driving range all day

Sunroof glued shut
from resting under live oak lust

Suspension creaking like the knees
of the owners getting out and in

And yet she still has all her gears
keeps family safe from Tesla fears

Likes to call them wisdom dents
and will not support mad presidents

Man Is a Counting Animal

Audio Recordings / tagged Achievement, Aging, Milestones, New Year, Religion / January 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was? - Satchel Paige

Notches on a gun
kills on the sides of fighter planes
dollars in the bank, candles on a cake

Cats can't count to ten
and start looking for a saviour
ending playful kittenhood of life nine

Tastes of Childhood

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Aging, Christmas, Experience, imagination, Literature, Traditions / December 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When I was two or three
and my mother read to me

When Alice fell down the rabbit hole
I fell down the rabbit hole
tumbling over and over in the air
the memory is still there

Ribbon candy and real candles on the tree

Christmas chocolates made at home
from a factory recipe someone
slipped to someone on a train

Taste buds still budding
tasting with my whole body

Slowly I've forgotten how
only love and fear can do it now

A Well-Lived Gladys

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Connection, Gandhi, Health, Inspiration / October 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

For Dr. Gladys McGarey 1919 - 2024

Two months short
of a hundred and five
she too the upward dive

You can read about her in her books
and some good hints on living yours

At an Austin church we got to touch
a shawl Gandhi gave her doctor parents
when they ministered on Himalayan slopes

Never washed you can still grok Gandhi on it

Her son Bob has a Human Potential Center
where we had a small group dinner later
and she and me washing and drying
shoulder to shoulder at the small sink after

The ordinary dancing with the extraordinary

Celebrating the life of Dr Gladys McGarey, Mother of holistic medicine and best-selling author of The Well-Lived Life: A 103-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age, and Living Medicine

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You've certainly captured these crazy times with finesse and grace, my Friend!
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I'm betting "slow motion" was never your style!
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Very nice
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A very good poem!!!
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