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If we seek to make the world whole
and all the people in it
we find that each person has a hole
that’s fit for some other to fill
when all the holes are filled
then all the holes are emptied
and opened
and all that’s filled
is our world whole

:- Doug.

We make the world together
There are so many drop-outs
What sparkling could
Our world-jewel give off
If we each invited
Others to drop in?

:- Doug.

Poetry means expressing the person, and the person is always in community, always a community. Poetry means the something more, the something larger. Poetry includes a rolling up of sleeves and setting to work. It means beauty, truth, goodness. It is about making…making beauty, truth, goodness.

Poetry is hearing the music, seeing the dance, making the movements, of a shared world—larger, more beautiful, more truth-full, more good.

So the work of this lawyer is to make poets out of the people I meet—makers of beauty, truth, goodness—those who add value to our shared world.

Rhymes not needed, verse not needed: only seeing, feeling, being. Hearts, hands, heads, fingers, lungs, mud, fire, wind, water.

:- Doug.