Subtle the clouds
Subtle the clouds
motionless yet gone
next we look
our days, lives
wordlessly turn worlds
:- Doug.
Archive for June, 2015
at once great and small
We are at once great and small
each of the days of our lives
to which shall we give attention?
:- Doug.
How have you chosen to oxidize?
How have you chosen to oxidize?
My high school chemistry teacher told us
You can go out in a ball of flame
Or you can rust
—It’s all a process of oxidation
:- Doug.
will not speak in words
There is something boiling roiling churning within me
it will not speak in words
only in great floods of pent up movings and love
:- Doug.
and I don’t mean within
There’s an ocean of love within me
and I don’t mean within me
It is flowing through me
and I don’t mean through me
Just precisely other
:- Doug.
Let’s disband
If we are not aiming high enough to change what people do, what good are we? Then let’s disband.
:- Doug.
meeting, meeting, meeting
We spend way too much time
meeting, meeting, meeting
but never meeting a soul
:- Doug.
For the progress of souls
For the progress of souls
is our real purpose
as we walk among people
how could we ever think it’s money and not
for the progress of souls?
:- Doug.
like the sky
The tunnels could be like the sky: It looks open to the stars, but the winds and clouds are in a thin belt, held close to earth by gravity and some other field perhaps. So we have this envelope, this sphere around the sphere, that is a wide open in all directions tunnel. We the winds, the clouds, the rains.
:- Doug.
