Next Stop on the Soulful Aging Tour: Reveries of the Mind
We’re losing our minds and acting our age with an honest delving into the expanding horizon that comes with the narrowing of life.
We’re working on it. It’s a trio this time. Katherine Chantal and I will be joined by Mary Wiley for our next Soulful Aging poetry reading.
We might forget a name but remember what is beautiful. We might revere a memory or re-name cognitive decline as “transcendence.”
Taking our leave takes time.
“Do you know I’m leaving / That the door is within sight / As you go about living…” Mary asks.
“Show me yourself / I will hold your gaze / of eternal love / Even when you slip away / into moments…” Katherine says.
“If life’s creation can’t be destroyed / but only changes form / then nothing is ever thrown away / It just moves from room to room…” suggests Colleen.
More to come…
_________Poets and Storytellers United
January 27th, 2023 1:12 am
Beautiful words… this is a reading I wish I could attend!!
January 27th, 2023 1:35 am
“forget a name?” I can’t remember any names to come out when I need to know, person or places or items. If I wait a while or don’t want to tell someone then it may come to me. I blame COVID for that and other troubles.
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January 27th, 2023 2:20 am
Yes, I think we deserve to find our own ageing processes fascinating, an exploration.
January 27th, 2023 9:13 am
I like the idea of containing collections of thoughts in a book. It adds at least a little sense of the eternal. Nothing is destroyed but it is transformed.
January 27th, 2023 9:57 pm
The aging process can be frustrating when caught in it. The beauty is no one is spared so each has the opportunity to relate and share. Great write, Colleen!
Hank