67 years old.
67 years old.
A Poem by Coyote Poetry
67 years old..
I am in the Winter of discontentment, and I am learning.
I am 67 years old, and I won’t see Florence again,
I won’t drink the September new wine in Germany again and
I won’t be able to read my poetry at Hyde Park in London.
Maybe I decided my final place to rest?
Now I have my Michigan, now I have my great lakes near.
Now I have Port Austin and this is enough for me.
Lake St. Clair is near me and I can sit near the Clinton River everyday.
I can sit with the Lake St. Clair dancing and I can write my poetry and story.
I have my five grandchildren, I love their tomfoolery and laughter,
they can make me smile and laugh too.
Some of my discontentment of my life can make me feel sad.
I wished, I did more.
I have learned in my 67 years of life.
You can’t save a world, that doesn’t want to be saved.
You must create safe place for your family and your friends.
And hope for a good death, you must hope for a good ending.
Dancing Coyote
Your winter carries the light of a rare wisdom.
Each letting go becomes a verse,
each place lost — a memory still glowing in words.
You have found peace by the waters,
and your grandchildren’s laughter sings back your past springs.
Perhaps we do not save the world — but we save each other,
through love, through poetry,
through the courage to say:
Now it is enough. And it is well.🫠
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