Best Caregivers Poems

To receive care
that best meets your needs,
and also,
by the way,
everyone else's too,
we look first
to where and when we have given such care
since our original longest...

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Ricky was just eight years of age,
As a single mom, had to down stage,
That his papa could die any day soon,
I remember that night, there...

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"Lord what fools these mortals be!" Wm. Shakespeare

I hesitate to be on the same page,
with I the greatest poet of the ages,
but I believe his...

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Wild Flower
By Nate Spears
Published 2013 In Death Of A Rose by Nate Spears
 
Rescue this sunflower
It's capable of being a ray of light
Nurture it, value...

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I have an outside RightBrain dominant thalamus
to watch and listen to,
to feel confluent and resonant with,
to love,
as parent with child,
yet this is more of a...

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Know Me 


You only know me by what you see, 
You are so distracted by my outer appearance that you cannot see me
We cannot believe...

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We cannot do without water,
But it could do without us
If we choose!
 
Bodies of living things are made up 
of mostly water, squashy plants,
Blood and...

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Where have you been?
We stopped taxing investments in worker-owned cooperatives
decades ago.
They all have missions to do one or two of two possible things,
To recycle matter...

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With one day's magic I would
 heal the world. I would cleanse
 the air so the albatross and the
 whales can live without fear 
...

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Humble hearted humans reside
Under the protective wings of angels
Making sacrifices to make this world
A better place, a place where
No one is left out in the...

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The Ethical Self
by
Rick Folker

If there is evil here, it is complacency, and it is collective.
- Courtney Martin/columnist for On Being

The Moral Arc is bent
but not...

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I hope we all at least aspire to become adept caregivers and receivers,
as these two directions seem to be nondualist,
mutually symbiotic;
to give care is neither...

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Little kids, needles, scary places
Doctors, nurses, with smiling faces
Strange bed, strange sound
Spooky environs all around

Pokes and prods, pink flowered gown
Tender mercies, gentle touch
Thank goodness mom...

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Life itself sometimes begins at the "End"? Life always has a beginning,and I am not certain about how "Life itself" will "End".Will you hold on...

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MOTHERS
The cycle of life would have ceased to exist,
 if there were no mothers.
Hard working they are,
Good discipliners they are,
Doctors and caregivers they are.
Praises I...

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