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Cartoon of old man saying "I'm not older!" and a young girl on a mountain saying, "I'm older!"

How to be old—a poem

April 23, 2021

You can’t be old without being young for a very long time. I’m sorry my dears but that’s how it is. Old age is your reward…

photo of cat on a bed. Thought bubble says "Tuesday... 9am loll on chair, 1pm loll on floor, 5pm lurk by fridge."

Ursula contemplates her busy schedule

April 22, 2021

Early each morning, cat and human preview their busy schedules. Things to do, places to go, stuff to eat! We barely know what day of the week it is.

A modest pottery bowl mended with gold lacquer: kintsugi

Poetic therapy: two poems for when you break or are haunted

April 20, 2021

In a storm of regrets or negative thoughts, sometimes a poem can help you to mend. That’s informal poetic therapy. What poems do you turn to?

Life outside the potager: aging naturally

April 13, 2021

If I were a vegetable I would hate to live in a potager garden. No chance of aging naturally there. I might look pretty but my life would be regimented—and short.

Poems for Christchurch: provocative?

April 2, 2021

I’ve got poems for Christchurch. But are they provocative, as advertised? They may provoke memories, new thoughts, tears and laughter.