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Poems and stories about growing older,aging, deteriorating

Tree Rings

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Relationships / tagged Aging, Education, Growth, Mentors / January 31, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Year of the Rabbit Day Two

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Astrology, Fate, Life, Luck / January 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The years shall run like rabbits - W.H. Auden

And the rabbit is off
with the hounds chasing

the track is twelve years long

The rabbit grows slower
the hounds grow ever nearer

Will we make it round once more

The Rabbit is one of the 12 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac

Kintsugi

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Personal Growth / tagged Aging, Healing, Love / December 5, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Like kintsugi cup
all old breaks now filled with gold
you so beautiful

What is Kintsugi ?

Narcissus in the North

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Image / November 30, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How I grew more beautiful
all through spring and summer
and into the golden fall

Winter has been hard
ice fishing for my face

The Indolent

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Retirement / August 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Having passed the age where
most have retired by choice or force
and with no particular trade to retire from
I watch sports on TV
all of which I played in my youth
with varying degrees of limited skill
and still care as much about the outcome
I read, because at ten
I fell in love with a teacher twice my age
And because bored was a word
never to be uttered on a working ranch
and the world infinitely interesting I carry on

On Reading Alan Dugan

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging / June 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reading Alan Dugan, and not, and again
and not again, and again, and then again

The curmudgeon-colored misanthrope
deepening his claw-set each time

Not sure if he is getting better
or I am getting worse

Half Past May and Counting

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Aging, Faith, Spring / May 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This many years from farming
I still feel the urge to be afield
a plowing and a planting

A plowing and a planting
and a praying for some rain
and a praying for some rain

Not that this constant goading
should be seen as lack of trust

But knowing he is also old
and sometimes needs reminding

On The Eve Of

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Aging / April 30, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Birthdays, Christmas, name a holiday
the fewer you've had the farther apart

When was it last you couldn't sleep
because of something coming
instead of something past

There are lullabies on tape

Beautiful

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Aging, Love, Marriage / February 15, 2022 / 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 color for him

Old Injuries

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged Aging, Pain / September 14, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Living with
what didn’t kill you outright

Sayings like
it makes you stronger

little comfort in the morning

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