Retirement Health Poems

When I entered the City Senior Center
with my Open Mic proposal
to increase resilience
and decrease apartheid dissonance

I could hear no music,
see no dancing.

The quilting room
and the...

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"Love Weaves A Mysterious Magic Spell"                   ...

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The dear old pastor had occupied the same pulpit for years and years;
He preached fire, damnation and The Hereafter scorching his congregants ears!
He had baptized...

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Quote By Poet "Money like honey is sweet to taste but money can sting you."

If money was the way
we would be happy everyday
then why are...

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Alone in this world
Alone in this society
Alone in love
Alone in life
Alone in fatherhood
Alone in my time of need
Nobody to help me
Nobody to care about what...

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Exponential growth
of capital and unkindness
in wildly unsustainable urban centers
viciously competes without more virtuous cycles
of silent wilderness integrity

NonCapitalized outside my tribe
compassion co-investments
enveloping local community resilience planning
for...

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Some days are up, others are down
    Little setbacks wear a big frown
  Every ache or pain, magnified
   ...

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Quote By Poet: "As one year ends ~ another is waiting to begin. What will the New Year bring? Only time will tell."
 
 ...

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I want to walk in my golden years,
On the Cornish beaches’ warm gold sands,
Where my footsteps are unhurried,
And my route is seldom planned.

I want to...

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Since retirement
I have gradually become more disappointed
with watching
and listening
to performers,
to on-screen entertainments,
to emotional yet disembodied hypnosis,
to vicarious fascinations
now suspiciously corrupt

Performance watching
becomes a cheaply vacuous substitute
for...

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Prayers,
sometimes lightly lyrical,
slyly satirical,
self-conscious,
ego-
and anthro-chosen folk
transcendently 
yet personally
individually woke,
and sometimes full embodied
passions in Praise Him!
shout out

Echo in-
voking round resonance
with all Earth's eternal 
regenerating lively
lovely resilience.

Prayers
express...

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A
prayer
I
say for
you today.
I pray
for
your health
peacefulness
angels to watch
over you.
My love
I
give you.
May God be
with you
each
waking
day.


Date Written: 6/13/2021

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If I were famous what would I do,                     ...

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Many have been healed by faith.                   ...

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God shifts his weight and half an oak remains.
One soul must die; another life retains. 
I stand a little shaky now.
raise my hand, put drops...

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