No will no was
No will no was only now
Make the change you see
Make it in our Betweens & Amongs
Now!
:- Doug.
Archive for January, 2008
Tell me one of your poems
Tell me one of your poems
Is like asking me to paint one of my children
Memory has not the ability
For I do not see or hear
I meet
I am met
:- Doug.
the thing to use
Perhaps perhaps perhaps again
The scoop’s the thing to use
There’s more to life there’s more out there
Than I have lived so far
It’s called engage the other here
The scoop’s the thing to use
:- Doug.
Not from outside
Action does not come from outside our people, nor solely from inside them, but also from between them.
:- Doug.
lie outside
We have convinced ourselves that the answers lie outside ourselves. There are two clues in that: lie & answers.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 822
Footprints in the Windsm # 822
Raising our voices is not for overcoming but for calling attention, for giving us an opportunity to create something new from the contraries.
Is this what we want—always contraries and a sigh? Can we hope for better? So we raise our voices not so much in opposition to our contraries as in opposition to our resignation to them and our failure to put to work our imaginations.
When we talk with people about things which need changing and we hear in return, “That’s the way it always has been,” “There are those who benefit from the way things are,” “Some will oppose you:” this is when we need to remind ourselves that out of contraries and walls which stand in our path can bloom flowers. The two can work together, both can grow and change shape, both can give birth to innovation, something new and totally unexpected can arise. We can work for that. The only thing that is required is that we work together: good hearts and good heads do make good.
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There is so much more to this world
There is so much more to this world
Than we know in our common hours
We need more of us
To get enough of us
Into this, our uncommon hour
:- Doug.
Poetry is work
Poetry is for work
Conversation is for work
The poet expects the people to work
:- Doug.
Prophets remind us
It is our job as prophets to remind our people—they are all our people—that we can grow good out of the condition in which we find ourselves. Acceptance is not an option when the condition is oppression of or abdication by the people. Our words: Remember our power—the power of vision. The time is ripe.
:- Doug.
Memory is good
Memory is good—it is a tool we can use. But it is to the spring like a bottle: what is stored quickly grows stale if not used—poured out—mixed with seeds or bodies or the air. It is necessary to keep in mind that the spring’s the source and our work is not to bottle but to put to work.
:- Doug.
Metaphors can only open us
Metaphors—such as planting and harvesting—can open us only so far. From there we need imagination to bring out the real harvest, for the harvest is not from the ground on a limited ball, but from the imagination of a illimitable mind—and that mind is not singular but plural.
:- Doug.
Imagination seeding imagination
It is not just imagination seeding imagination, but the facts 1. Every common one of us has imagination and its products; 2. if we start with harvesting, we start with those products we already have (albeit usually unconsciously); and 3. these harvests harvesting will of their nature produce more and of higher quality.
:- Doug.
