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No return
From whatever path we choose
There are ever fresh jumping off spots

:- Doug.

Nothing is assured
To be uncertain
Is to be
Looking over the edge
Of the possible

:- Doug.

Reach for our road’s furthest point—
Schweitzer played his piano evenings,
found moments to relax and receive beauty
Jesus went off alone between reaches
They stayed not their feet
from their chosen road—
How far can our road be opened?

:- Doug.

I see the spring
and cry aloud

:- Doug.

The great cry
was from God
may have been God

:- Doug.

I am circling
this unknown
larger circles me

:- Doug.

My poetry circles and circles
triangulates and triangulates
Only see edges

:- Doug.

Emptying my mouth
Might empty my head
Open my heart and hands

:- Doug.

Speak to empty yourself
Not to fill others
Maybe they will fill you

:- Doug.

Speak out of chaos
It is a way
To disorganize

:- Doug.

What good could come
from letting in difference?

:- Doug.

Let’s meet
to roll!

:- Doug.

Security leads freedom
Away in chains
Choose wisely

:- Doug.

Letting another in
Restrains not your freedom
Each increases your creative choices

:- Doug.

Making faces little girl
Your smile might be
The worship today

:- Doug.

In your presence
I stand in the presence
of all there is

:- Doug.

Make no plans
This is the day to speak out
Scary though that be

:- Doug.

Live out God
As you would a prophecy
Or an ideal

:- Doug.

Nor in the sky above us
Nor in the ground upholding our feet
But all around us
In every living thing
And in the things we don’t yet see as living

:- Doug.

Dream the thing
You shall be so

:- Doug.

Transform
into dream
here is immortality
that works
by others’ hands

:- Doug.

To what higher beyond yourself have
you set yourself?

:- Doug.

The larger in others
Wants freed to grow

:- Doug.