Archive for July, 2013

All images: but none alone

G is the whole. All images, but none alone.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 18th, 2013 | No Comments »

Can we be the ones to take the next step forward?

Can we do something new in this community—and better? Can we be the ones to take the next step forward?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 18th, 2013 | No Comments »

Traces of the whole

Traces of the whole
in each part
Too the other way round
Work to see & skill
In you & me & today our traces

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 18th, 2013 | No Comments »

“We play what we hear”

“We play what we hear”
We invite where we are invited
Rather, where we are received

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 17th, 2013 | No Comments »

Wanting the game, neighborhood children

Wanting the game, neighborhood children
for shorter ones allow more tries, shorten distances
Do we as adults still want the game?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 17th, 2013 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1344–One poem, one scrap

Footprints in the Windsm # 1344

One poem, one scrap
of paper can only free
its one butterfly


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 17th, 2013 | No Comments »

Sand our fingertips

The way we make this the best place to die is to sand our fingertips: to develop our sensitivity to people and their way of dying. Our compassion. We put ourselves in their shoes—won’t we get there someday, too? How do they want to be met? Met, not treated—this is not about doing to. All life is a walking with, a helping one another. How can you, in your work, be strong in your compassion: feel with?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 17th, 2013 | No Comments »

Incite, entice

Incite, entice
Evoke, provoke
Invite

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 16th, 2013 | No Comments »

genius, passion & will: do we continue to put it off?

Do we help people find their
genius, passion & will
or do we continue to put it off
to a day—
which comes when?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 16th, 2013 | No Comments »

What does it mean to have not wisdom?

To my friends in the wisdom class:
At 66 years of age
What does it mean to not have wisdom?
To have not depth?
At what age does it arrive?
Can anyone teach me
How to find it?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 16th, 2013 | No Comments »

draw this people out

Our task an ancient one
in this prosaic meeting room
educare
to draw out
this people, us

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 16th, 2013 | No Comments »

my body metamorphoses

How did air come in
& become part of my body?
Essential it is to me yet
“outside” “me”
When I take it in
my body metamorphoses
me into it
& I exhale part of me
In this change
the air becomes more
complete

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 15th, 2013 | No Comments »

participation is the orphan

I speak forth
of participation
not because it is the only
rather in our individualistic age
it is the orphan

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 15th, 2013 | No Comments »

Making a poem

Making a poem
is an act
of worship

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 15th, 2013 | No Comments »

To whom does the soul sing singing alone?

To whom does the soul sing singing alone?
ecstatic, grateful, praising?
whom does the soul meet
for meeting there be?
expression requires no hearing whom
participation is otherwise
in this world we are surely so invited

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 15th, 2013 | No Comments »

The whole story?

The whole story
Do we tell?
Do I tell?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 15th, 2013 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1343–We have met the nuanced, beautiful, stirring,

Footprints in the Windsm # 1343

We have met the
nuanced, beautiful, stirring,
mysterious, visionary,
compassionate ones:
& they are us!
(Even me? Yes!)


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 14th, 2013 | No Comments »

Consumer, no

Consumer does not define us:
We work toward Consummater

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 14th, 2013 | No Comments »

A soft space in which to…

Grow to the size of your reality
play! tell your grandchild a story! experiment!
give the organic principle
a soft space
in which to sprout

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 14th, 2013 | No Comments »

Matchstrokes in the dark

If we (today)
cannot give over to wholeness
this entire project
then a few
matchstrokes in the dark

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 14th, 2013 | No Comments »

Meaning is….

Meaning is
Message?
Story?
Samsara?
Hidden?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 14th, 2013 | No Comments »

the baffling wedding

Poetry is
the baffling wedding
of those we think discordants
paradox & metamorphosis
fusion transcendent

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 13th, 2013 | No Comments »

the Holy Fecund

Let us remove our shoes here
before the Holy Fecund
alive in every woman & man

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 13th, 2013 | No Comments »
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