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Poems and stories about growing older,aging, deteriorating

Rolling On

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Remembering / tagged Aging, Death, Movement / August 17, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Buggy wheels
and training wheels
cars, trucks and bikes

Walkers
and wheelchairs
powered and push
until the wheels come off

Young Revere the Old

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Aging, Friendship, Respect / August 14, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Young revere the old
an admonition most wise
may old do so too

Y’Alzheimers

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Alzheimers/Dementia, Humor / June 11, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Getting old
and forgetting
that the South
lost the war

Lost at Sea

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Aging, ALS, Alzheimers/Dementia, Cancer, Death, Disease / May 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Uncles, aunts, old friends and more
all sinking below the metaphor
on the way to that distant shore

The keel hauling of cancer
Walking Gerhig's plank with ALS

Hanging from the yardarm
of emphysema's choking rope

The lightning stroke of stroke

The sudden iceberg of heart attack

The slow arctic crush of hoary old age
or slowly sailing, deeper and deeper
into Alzheimers' fog-bound banks

There are a though sand ways
to get back to the launching line
Not sure I'm ready to speculate on mine

Birthday Gratitudes

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Celebrations, Longevity, Willie Nelson / May 1, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This is the week of birthdays
of Pierre and Willie and Neil

And how many candles
have given their lives
that they could live this long

And what thanks do they get
a sip and a joint and Let em eat cake

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Ageism

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Aging, Perspective, Respect, Youth / March 16, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Under the ancient oak
young bluebonnets bloom

Neither judging the other
as too young to know or old to act

A Few Remaining Relatives

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Birds, Connection, Migration / December 11, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Spoke to Joy in Saskatchewan today
She informs me that she is
relatively healthy, relatively mobile
and relatively happy

That the sunrises and sunsets
are much like they have always been
and stopping by our lake on their way south
the largest flock of swans she's ever seen

For Victor

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Aging, Care, Dogs, Love / November 30, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The only trick an old dog can learn
is how to be an old dog

The minimum of turns one has to take
before lying down for that nap

That a bark is as good as a chase
for keeping squirrels off the deck

And that after all these years
of standing up for your standing friends
you've likely earned their kneeling by you now

Jim

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Aging, Persepective, Tobacco / November 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

First year on the ranch one of the hands was Jim
seventy years old and Methuselah to my twenty-one

Five foot two with always a chew
never walked but ran wherever he went
tractor to truck, house to barn he never slowed down

Now that I've reached his age and passed it
starting to realize what he might have been running from

An Archaeology of Memory

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Aging, Memory / November 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Old cowboy in the nursing home
eyes closed
hands moving slow
bunching up and smoothing out
hills lower and higher than the albums show

Gentle that slope for the prairie wool
steepen it a little for the winter sled
push up a mountain for a boy and his dog
lope a meadow for the tall-horsed teen

Back on the ranch again
excavating in the Plasticine

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Ken on MossbankMarch 23, 2025
Beautiful, that could go on a t-shirt
Nancy Fierstien on TroubledMarch 18, 2025
Keep writing, Neil. Keep writing and writing and writing…because you have so much tucked inside that is worth saying to…
Ken Christopher on Negative Space in New York CityMarch 17, 2025
Prairie boy in NYC
Anonymous on Cowboys Will Be BoysMarch 6, 2025
I love this poem make more like it
Nancy Fierstien on Redwoods in the RainFebruary 27, 2025
Love, love, love, love, love this one Neil!

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