Takes place nowhere else in nature
In the streaming conversation
We participate in souls
What takes place between this person and this other
Takes place nowhere else in nature
We have entered the sphere larger
:- Doug.
Archive for July, 2014
first you die then
Give up the last thing
the vulnerable being
at your center
protected, defended, walled
breach your barriers go out
and meet the radically other
first you die then you live
:- Doug.
Possible to glimpse—
Possible to glimpse—
Unity of your self (who are you?)
Unity face to face (who might we yet be?)
Unity of soul-invested action (what will we do?)
—Possible to start in our world
:- Doug.
For our original self
Grief! & pain!
For our original self
Cry bitter tears!
For days & weeks & eons endless!
Never again. Never.
:- Doug.
Each child you meet
Each child you meet
is bearer of your communion with the world
form of your responsibility for humankind
seedling of your original voice to echo
if you truly meet
:- Doug.
The center of all surprise
The center of all surprise
You and all humanity
Evil and good mixed through
Little wonder we are mixed up
Lightning! Flash and crash!
What has not been invades!
You begin
:- Doug.
Have much to do tomorrow
Have much to do tomorrow. It needs my very own voice. These people need my very own voice. You need my very own voice. Your milieu needs my very own voice.
:- Doug.
bend the melody
Voices of devils and angels intertwine
in life’s choir
the hymn wild and feral
offers a poem for you to make
bend the melody do not break
:- Doug.
Set your soul a paradoxical
Set your soul a paradoxical work:
Find the crowd
No longer a crowd
:- Doug.
This poetry need not be true
This poetry need not be true
Yet is
Sets us on the path toward true
:- Doug.
Emergencies invite new thinking
In science old thought fades
as old scientists die off
In bloody revolutions, the process is hurried
this way I eschew
Emergencies invite new thinking
when not purposely originated
Sometimes it is saying it over and over
for decades
Till our hearts hear
:- Doug.
We live in a closed-loop world
We live in a closed-loop world
Symbiotic action is not an option:
Either we are working for the good of all, or dying
:- Doug.
How big is your house?
How big is your house?
Does it shelter your family?
Is it big enough for your townsfolk?
The people you don’t like so much?
Health and money and neighborliness?
How big is our whole house
And do we take responsibility?
:- Doug.
To make a lasting contribution
Among our deepest desires
To make to the universe a lasting contribution
Offer here
:- Doug.
How the cells must have felt!
How the cells must have felt!
When first they came together
I am losing my identity
I shall surely die!
I must rebel
But two accepted the offer
Multi-celled creatures resulted
Eventually humans
Symphonies, electricity, and thronging cities
Societies, higher level acts
Possibility if we come together?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1434–seeing it at all
Footprints in the Windsm # 1434
Seeing anything as
interesting, beautiful, scary
seeing it at all
attending it
transforms it
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