Oh, I do love these (especially the title poem, which I hadn't seen for quite a spell, not least because I identify so strongly with its/your attitude. I had to smile at one word: when our old GP retired, we were doing a new patient interview with her successor, an equally fabulous woman. She looked at our living will directives, glanced at my wife (who's almost uninterruptedly upbeat although, believe me, a long way from "clueless") and whispered "Tigger." Then she turned my way and whispered "Eeyore."
Thaks for the invite to join the "poetic elders!" Just read your prose poem. Must admit I, too, am Pretty Happy. I write a few of them but am still taking classes with a group of elders. We range from mid 70's to 90. Stil upright and creating with words. Some write to the prompt and some poet to the prompt. It makes us all pretty darn happy! Thanks again! ~Ms. Myhre
Oh, I do love these (especially the title poem, which I hadn't seen for quite a spell, not least because I identify so strongly with its/your attitude. I had to smile at one word: when our old GP retired, we were doing a new patient interview with her successor, an equally fabulous woman. She looked at our living will directives, glanced at my wife (who's almost uninterruptedly upbeat although, believe me, a long way from "clueless") and whispered "Tigger." Then she turned my way and whispered "Eeyore."
Thaks for the invite to join the "poetic elders!" Just read your prose poem. Must admit I, too, am Pretty Happy. I write a few of them but am still taking classes with a group of elders. We range from mid 70's to 90. Stil upright and creating with words. Some write to the prompt and some poet to the prompt. It makes us all pretty darn happy! Thanks again! ~Ms. Myhre
aka Jan
"pretty" is the adjectival equivalence of "curb your enthusiasm."
"half full vs half empty" is not just shorthand for distinguishing between
optimistic and pessimistic views, it also is a determinate of
temporal perceptiveness:
"half empty" laments the past and the loss of yesterday.
"half full" celebrates the present and what remains today.