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Magic is getting
Mystic is letting

;- Doug.

You may touch
But you must pay the cost
Only all of you, all you grasp
It’s not so big
Pay the cost with all your day

:- Doug.

I hear the holy
Mostly, coming out my pen
Singing poetry

:- Doug.

Wholly
holy
here

:- Doug.

Morning fog rising from the pond
Highway shimmers ahead
Softly softly here

:- Doug.

Whatever you say God is
Also true God is not that
Avoid these phrases
Avoid the praises
(they extol your constructions)
Open
Be with

:- Doug.

Step into God
Meet
With us

:- Doug.

God shows
poetry
and prose!

:- Doug.

Ecstatic
my poetry today
intricate gossamer
enough
overflowing

:- Doug.

Not just our human
brothers and sisters
the all there is

:- Doug.

Children of our children’s children
We are
When working for the common good

:- Doug.

In a moment we have touched
the future we all want

:- Doug.

Respecting our elderhood

:- Doug.

We have touched the future
People working for the larger whole
Here in these little open spaces

:- Doug.

Caring: where my heart is.

:- Doug.

Orgasmic
spurts
joy!
of God
are we

:- Doug.

The reader
much as the writer
makes the poem

:- Doug.

We, alone,
cannot
address today’s complexities

We, alone,
are not
G

:- Doug.

As infectious
as life
G is

:- Doug.

I see God as a family
—the family of humanity—
who have hardly met
Yet when they meet
O!
And they want to meet so they can
O!

:- Doug.

The turn of conversation

:- Doug.

G emerges
.

:- Doug.

It’s about the whole
it’s about all of us
and then some
if we ignore that
we ignore the abyss under our feet
it’s about hearing
even more than listening
mind
heart
will
open to the emerging all

:- Doug.