Poetry to help the elderly
This part of the website helps people to start poetry programs for the elderly in their communities
Poetry to help the dying
This part of the website helps people, through poetry, prepare for death
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  • Poetry Presentations For The Elderly
    • Introduction
    • The Poetry Presentations
    • Index Of Presentations
      • Introductory Presentation
      • November
      • January
      • Love
      • Americana
      • Spring
      • Food
      • June (and Marriage)
      • July – America
      • Birth to School
      • Work
      • Post-Work
      • The American West and Manhood
      • Protest Poems
      • Muslim Poetry
      • Jewish Poetry
      • The Night
      • Prayer and Miracles
      • Family
      • Travel
      • Animals
      • Music
      • Manhattan
      • Water
      • Other Souls
      • Weather
      • Becoming One’s Own Person
      • Birds
      • Success and Failure
      • Movies
      • In Love With Life
      • Doctors/Illness
      • Trains
      • Learning
      • Baseball
      • Time
      • Different Kinds of People
      • Autumn
      • Letting Go
      • America’s Shadow
      • “Let My People Go” and Other Protest Poetry from William Blake to Maya Angelou
      • Painting
      • Old-Fashioned
      • Clothes
      • Dealing with Serious Problems
      • African-American Poets
      • Dharma/Yoga
      • Jerusalem
      • Trees
      • Men and Women
      • Dogs
      • Moving from the Head to the Heart
      • When Conventional Work Is Done: “The Sky Is Filled with Stars, Invisible by Day”
  • Poetry to Help the Dying
    • Introduction
    • Poems
      • List of Poems
      • Happy the Man
      • Nature
      • Teaching of Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Nation
      • The God Forsakes Anthony
      • Terminus
      • Master of beauty
      • Psalm 23
    • Postscript
  • About Us
    • An Account of My Life Called “A Pilgrim’s Progress,” by Marvin Wexler
    • Colleagues
    • The Evolution of the Poetry Program
    • Law, Justice and Poetry
    • My Four-And-A-Half Decade Day Job: Marvin Wexler, Attorney at Law
    • “Al-Andalus — An Andalucian Romance” — A Film or Play for our Fractured Time, with a Minor in Poetry and a Major in Covivencia
    • Trump Poem: “My Robin Hood Costume Is An Incredible Winner”
    • A New Contract With America: Pursuing the Common Good, with No Citizen Left Behind

Poems

Poems

Poetry to Help the Dying

  • Happy the Man
  • Nature
  • Terminus
  • Master of beauty
  • Psalm 23
  • Invictus
  • Let Evening Come
  • Titanic
  • Crossing The Bar
  • Closed Path
  • Last Night As I Was Sleeping
  • Teaching of Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Nation
  • The God Forsakes Anthony
  • The Hospital
  • So Long
  • A Psalm of Life
  • This World is not Conclusion
  • Who Says Words With My Mouth?
  • Excerpts from Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
  • Out Beyond Ideas
  • A Tale of the Sands
  • Infinite Life (excerpts)
  • Gone From My Sight
  • Wean Yourself
  • Lady Of Grace
  • My Soul Longed
  • All Return Again
  • Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
  • Excerpt from The Prophet
  • Fishing in the Keep of Silence
  • When Death Comes
  • Life Should Not Be . . .
  • To Know the Dark
  • If I Had My Life to Live Over
  • Long Life
  • In a Dark Time
  • I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open
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