Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Quotes
Short Stories
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Resources
Syllable Counter
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 18.219.189.247
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
YouthGroup interviews WiseElder lunch crowd Notes: (1) What do you recommend for improving our long-term health prospects? Question met with quiet, not smug, possibly embarrassed? amusement. Honey, I'm eighty years old. My goal is to continue gracefully accepting my future losses. I'm not sure that helps you with collapsing climate and economic and political health issues. (2) Why have you done so well so far? Oh, you poor child! This is your idea of success? When I was younger I thought about healthy vocational goals, like dancing and singing-- Ways to cooperate BothFun-AndWork solutions stretching my more typical EitherWealth-OrTooTerriblyTired non-thinking. It sounds like you found a long-term approach for growing cooperative health. Since Trump was elected, more of a daily promise to not kill myself just yet than a long-term strategy. (3) Looking back, What healthcare choices would you approach differently? Maybe I would look more toward future goals to cooperatively thrive To grow less frightened by past unfortunate competitions to survive indignities of old age losses in these paternalistic States of DisUnity. (4) Looking forward, Why might you choose and not choose to plan for long-term health for yourself, for your extended family, and for Earth? I would include most plants as part of my extended family. Although there are some aggressive weeds to which I prefer to claim no kinship, Republican or Russian or otherwise. (5) When should we begin long-term health planning and development? I've been waiting for eight decades. Now, or even yesterday, might already be too late, even for my adult children. (6) In what ways, if any, have you begun bringing your own adult childhood toward this great transition time? Are you asking because you're young enough to think you know the right answer? Or because you're old enough to be curious about depths and resilience of early through late health development for organic persons, green plants, and wealthy planet? I am, I hope, just young and old enough to be curious about why those who plan for long-term planet therapies also seem most likely conscious of past health goals competitively missed, And others still cooperatively attainable. Competitively missed goals... Is that like old people without a shared nap-time map of where we have been today? Feeling lost about tomorrow's adventurous possibilities for continuing healthy sanctuary choices, even short-term dreams... For me, long-term health planning is mostly about getting through today and staying awake while you and your YouthGroup cohorts pursue your own lifeline journey toward WiseElder retirement. I might recommend more healthy cooperation toward achieving interdependent community wealth more than RightWing competitive monoculturing aspirations. For me, and for us, I hope, long-term healthy climate goals remain mostly about our extending family on pilgrimage toward WiseElder Earth as sacred Sanctuary and secular communities of cooperative curiously continuing health care futures, More than competitively courageous and loyal Win or Lose wealth hoarding against my, and our, inevitable degenerating future. (7) What happened to, I'm eighty with one foot in the grave already? I reserve the right to also focus on what's left of the other, more curiously cooperative, foot.
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required