Archive for June, 2017

Good every morning

Good every morning
when I am an elder
to write poetry

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2017 | No Comments »

you non-poets

Poetry mists
life-stuff
you non-poets
also
come to life here

:- Doug.

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every you

In the one light
we welcome you
every you
help us welcome you
help us understand
your pain
your joy
a bit of
your soul
we will work to hear you
In the one light

:- Doug.

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(shallow his soul)

Pity
is all
there can be
for him
in soul deep pain
(shallow his soul)
another has gotten press
and so denied it to him
humiliate the other!
even if it does himself harm
pity him
pity him
the little man pained

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2017 | No Comments »

but at 21 I could not yet know

Stripped bare nothing left but bone
grieving together
best of human loving
I had an intuition of this
her grandfather, his father died
I drove in the funeral procession
but at 21 I could not yet know

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2017 | No Comments »

In the hour before traverse

In the hour before sleep
In the hour awakening
Traverse a universe or two

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2017 | No Comments »

Profounder

Than you expect
life is shorter
love has a larger claim
your love is profounder
more foundational

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2017 | No Comments »

a dark named river

These a practice are poems
essence a dark named river forest

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2017 | No Comments »

These hours borrowed

These hours borrowed
from life: for getting a paycheck
from grandchildren: for whom we could have lived

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2017 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1703–Earth chuckles at our hubris

Footprints in the Windsm # 1703

The great turning of humanity
Earth chuckles at our hubris
One day
We may not matter so much
Consciousness may not matter
The teapot boils
Then the robin goes on singing


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 28th, 2017 | No Comments »

Sweet peril

Sweet peril
in whom we live
and love you too little

:- Doug.

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Only the silence knows

Only the silence of death ever knows
whom we were and what we were worth
so we in this preceding dark ought for life flare out

:- Doug.

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Welcome two ways

Y’all come. We promise to work to welcome you. We ask you to work to welcome us, too.

:- Doug.

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Keepers

Elders might be keepers of the
stories
recipes
seeds
spirit
possibilities
play
songs
futures
larger
humanity
dreams:
guardians too

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2017 | No Comments »

What does the cell intuit

Would God care
about a few billion humans
unless God were of us, we of God?
What does the cell intuit
of the being?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2017 | No Comments »

Write a better one

Now go home and write it better, or write a better one.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

Write 6 stories

Write 6 stories of your everyday deaths.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

Is it important how our stories come to a close?

Is it important how our stories come to a close? Do we want them to whimper, be encased in pain, gentle our loved ones?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

Not percuss?

May we converse and not percuss?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

Peace with a migraine

This morning I was making peace with a migraine.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

Crawl inside the sound

Crawl inside the sound, rest here.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Findlings

Insights, glimpses, findlings!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Love cannot guarantee

Love cannot guarantee success, only presence.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2017 | No Comments »
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