Download or read book Poems For and About Elders Revised Expanded Edition written by Tom Greening and published by University Professors Press. This book was released on 2020-06-27 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Greening is a wonderful role model of an elder, poet, philosopher, and educator who shares personal, honest, and lyrical contemplations on later life issues. The poems in this collection grew out of his serving as a training director at AgeSong, his psychotherapy practice, and his own aging. With wit and humor, Dr. Greening guides us through many issues faced by elders, including those often not discussed. Through the poems, elders and those who love elders will be challenged and comforted while developing a deeper understanding of the aging process.
Download or read book Poems for and about Elders written by Tom Greening and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gems of Wisdom written by Nader R. Shabahangi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I think creativity is the key to the fountain of youth. Gems of Wisdom reflects the creative genius, and wisdom that comes with age. This anthology is a marvelous, brave book, a testimonial to the power of age, and to the spirit. The prose pieces in this book bring the reader into the dreams, hopes and insights of those who embrace age. As we live in an anti-age society, this anthology is important, as it represents the age pride and the importance of the creative process. This is a masterpiece! And everyone at every age should read this book. ---San Francisco Author of The Viagra Diaries and Founder/Age March We would like to acknowledge all of the offerings submitted for this publication. Though we could not include all pieces submitted, we the judges and editors were enchanted by the many memories and stories that we were privileged to share.. ---Kimberly Kinser - Poet, Writer, Amherst Artist and Writers Workshop Leader The anthology by AgeSong abounds with playful poems of times well lived! It's a fine thing to read the poem stories that sing of love songs, along with hardship from people who are now in their seventies and eighties, even nineties. The humor will delight you. You may wonder what you'll be saying at that age! ---Janell Moon, Poet Laureate of Emeryville for 2011-2012, Author of Salt and Paper: 65 Candles
Download or read book Parents Keep Out written by Ogden Nash and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of witty poems is meant for young and old alike.
Download or read book These Are My Elders written by Chad Norman and published by Fredericton, NB : Broken Jaw Press eBooks. This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elders written by Laughing Waters Press, The and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elder is someone older and higher in rank, or one who was earlier and is now the past. Young people who stand up for the oppressed and their planet think they have no elders and that they will not be elders of a movement older and larger than themselves. here are elder's words.
Download or read book Voice of the Hawk Elder written by Edna Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edna Gordon provides life lessons as a Hen Hawk Elder from the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca people. She shares her valuable teaching lessons and poetry on Mother Earth and our need to find balance in our lives and within our environments. In "Voice of the Hawk Elder," with the assistance of former National Georgraphic writer and editor, Harvey Arden, her words come to shape a picture of a world we need to find, from a woman whose voice we need to hear!
Download or read book Honoring the Elders written by Elizabeth Bishop and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the poems in this collection honor the elders and anticipate the enjoyment of the natural world. Restoring the importance of Mother Earth and reclaiming her power is central to the premise of this collection of talk stories and poems. First Peoples were never to be separated from Mother Earth. At the point of colonial contact, the rights of the people were violated. We are to remember we are all interconnected, no matter what. Much healing and honoring needs be accorded ancestral ways, now and forever.
Download or read book Poems from the Mystic Elders written by Gail Lewis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of poetry that has been written over the time span of two decades and took all of my personal courage to create. I have been on a very personal journey of late, and this book has been the outcome of the journey. Thank you for buying it as you will never know how many hurdles I had to jump to get to this stage in my life. Many bright blessings to you. Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again.
Download or read book The Gathering of the Elders written by Wesli Court and published by . This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major collection by the astonishing Wesli Court is an event calculated to shiver all literary seismographs. Readers addicted to poetry, but weary of ill-made poems, can latch on to it with joy. Aspiring poets can seize it as a handbook of models, learning how to write anything from an ode to a sonnenizio, from an epigram to a blues epilogue. While often striking a wistful, wintery tone of hail-and-farewell, there are notes of infectious cheer and some genuine surprises - even a poem to fulfill an unused title that Wallace Stevens left lying idle. With unique skill, Court shows us what a truly good metrical poem used to be, could be, and (in his able hands) still is. - X. J. KennedyIt's an increasingly rare pleasure to read poems about the real world in language as clear as it is lyrical, wth deep roots in the past and illuminated by careful rhyme. - Miller WilliamsThe miraculous thing about all these poems is the way they avoid sentimentality and the temptation to reinvent the past, preferring, instead, a difficult blend of affection and detachment, honesty and regret. - Rhina P. Espaillat.
Download or read book Ash Moon Anthology written by Alexis Rotella Garrison and published by Modern English Tanks Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ash Moon Anthology explores and celebrates the later years of life: the "golden years," to some, and far from it, to others. Senior men and women have a perspective on life that cannot be achieved except by enduring the passage of several decades. Just as youth and the fullness of maturity are celebrated for their special characteristics, so should be our later years. Ash Moon Anthology includes poems about all aspects of aging, both the ups and downs, the joys and the sorrows; poems that embody the humor, insight, and wisdom of our elders and the ways in which we age with grace and even elegance. This is a tremendous collection of nearly nine hundred poems on aging from 97 poets on five continents. It is our sincere goal and hope that it will bring its readers enjoyment, pleasure, an occasional laugh, and perhaps a few tears. If it sheds even the faintest new light on the experience of aging, it will be a great success to us.
Download or read book Nearing Ninety written by Judith Viorst and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest illustrated poetry collection in beloved author Judith Viorst’s “decade” series (from It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty to Unexpectedly Eighty), exploring, with her signature savvy and humor, what it means to be an impending nonagenarian. In Nearing Ninety, bestselling author Judith Viorst candidly shares the complicated joys and everyday tribulations that await us at the age of ninety, all with a large dose of humor and an understanding that nothing—well, almost nothing—in life should be taken too seriously. While she struggles to make it to midnight on New Year's Eve, while she’s starting to hear more eulogies than symphonies, while she’ll forever be disheartened by what she weighs (and forever unable to stop weighing herself), there is plenty to cherish at ninety: hanging out with the people she loves. Playing a relentless game of Scrabble. And still sleeping tush-to-tush with the same man to whom she’s been married for sixty years. Accompanied by Laura Gibson’s whimsical illustrations, Nearing Ninety’s amusing and touching reflections make this collection relatable to readers of all ages. With the wisdom and spunk of someone who’s seen it all, Viorst gently reminds us that everybody gets old, and that the best medicine at any age is laughter.
Download or read book Coming to Age written by Carolyn Hopley and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing writers who found power and growth later in life. At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: "Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over time. We are the pioneers." Coming to Age is a collection of dispatches from the great poet-pioneers who have been fortunate enough to live into their later years. Those later years can be many things: a time of harvesting, of gathering together the various strands of the past and weaving them into a rich fabric. They can also be a new beginning, an exploration of the unknown. We speak of "growing old." And indeed, as we too often forget, aging is growing, growing into a new stage of life, one that can be a fulfillment of all that has come before. To everything there is a season. Poetry speaks to them all. Just as we read newspapers for news of the world, we read poetry for news of ourselves. Poets, particularly those who have lived and written into old age, have much to tell us. Bringing together a range of voices both present and past, from Emily Dickinson and W. H. Auden to Louise Gluck and Li-Young Lee, Coming to Age reveals new truths, offers spiritual sustenance, and reminds us of what we already know but may have forgotten, illuminating the profound beauty and significance of commonplace moments that become more precious and radiant as we grow older.
Download or read book Ash Moon Anthology written by Denis M. Garrison and published by Modern English Tanks Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ash Moon Anthology explores and celebrates the later years of life: the "golden years," to some, and far from it, to others. Senior men and women have a perspective on life that cannot be achieved except by enduring the passage of several decades. Just as youth and the fullness of maturity are celebrated for their special characteristics, so should be our later years. Ash Moon Anthology includes poems about all aspects of aging, both the ups and downs, the joys and the sorrows; poems that embody the humor, insight, and wisdom of our elders and the ways in which we age with grace and even elegance. This is a tremendous collection of nearly nine hundred poems on aging from 97 poets on five continents. It is our sincere goal and hope that it will bring its readers enjoyment, pleasure, an occasional laugh, and perhaps a few tears. If it sheds even the faintest new light on the experience of aging, it will be a great success to us.
Download or read book The Hurting Kind written by Ada Limón and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón. “I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings—and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they “do not / care to be seen as symbols”? With Limón’s remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions—incorporating others’ stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honor parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families. Along the way, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world. “Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning’s shade,” writes Limón of a groundhog in her garden, “she is doing what she can to survive.”
Download or read book The Two Elders and Other Poems written by James Stewart (Author of The Two Elders.) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forever Fifty written by Judith Viorst and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-09-03 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers lyrical, compassionate, and witty observations about turning fifty years old and facing middle age
