Archive for August, 2020

fingers on different keys

type with fingers on different keys
read with eyes for random “words”

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 18th, 2020 | No Comments »

Mime mystery

Mind
mine
mime the mystery

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 18th, 2020 | No Comments »

porpoise hollers

creativity has a pragmatic purpose
imagination plays without rains
porpoises jump about making hoops and hollers

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 18th, 2020 | No Comments »

Poet enough

You could be poet enough.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 18th, 2020 | No Comments »

Redistribute trust

Redistribute trust, reciprocity, imagination.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 18th, 2020 | No Comments »

Change rules

Change the rules
What are the rules?
What rules your days?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 17th, 2020 | No Comments »

Last energy

Service takes willingness to expend one’s last energy—and then gives you more.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 17th, 2020 | No Comments »

Playfully skippingly slowly

Slowly savoringly lostly
Dreamily slowly flowingly
Playfully skippingly slowly

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 17th, 2020 | No Comments »

I can rhythm

I can rhyme and I can rhythm
There they go and I go with ‘em

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 17th, 2020 | No Comments »

Words as you swim

Hear the harmonious
here in the world
of words as you swim

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 17th, 2020 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1975–Taking my time

Footprints in the Windsm # 1975

Have been taking my time and feeling guilty for it, like I should get moving. Yet slowness is for savoring this life.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on August 16th, 2020 | No Comments »

Fall in book

Read a book at the edge
fall into a deep book

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 16th, 2020 | No Comments »

Definitions for ancestors?

Definitions seek to capture the essence of a word. To be succinct. Which is to say, be easy to remember, easy to test. For ancestors does this well trod path cover the territory, what these ancestors did, and more importantly what they still do, today, for us?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 16th, 2020 | No Comments »

Ask your fingers

I don’t know what you should write about: ask your writing fingers.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 16th, 2020 | No Comments »

Need a word….

We need a word….

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 16th, 2020 | No Comments »

Right mind!

Get into your right mind!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 16th, 2020 | No Comments »

A poet might see:

A poet might see: longer, funnier, sillier, serious-er, missed things, missing things, a way to go missing, inside another, inside the poet, inside out, backwards, unknowns, more, less, blindly, sounds, colors, fragrances, feelings, hot, cold, wet, emotions, uplift, downdraft, playful, old, young, unborn, ancestor-y, you, unseen poems, profound contraries, imaginary beings, imaginary non-beings, a rainbow stream in the air filled with rainbow trout, someone who has died, someone who has not yet died, a dream, a lake, a woods, a hole, a cloud, a circle, a life, the poet’s life, a client’s life, something beautiful, something struggling, something growing, something ugly, someone oppressed, someone hurting, someone helping, someone lost, someone the poet can help, someone the poet ought not help,

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 15th, 2020 | No Comments »

Remake the poet?

How might our poetry be?
How might our poetry remake the poet?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 15th, 2020 | No Comments »

Curious after death?

How might we be curious after we have died?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 15th, 2020 | No Comments »

Become immortal

Your poem might become immortal, or trigger one.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 15th, 2020 | No Comments »

Again fascinating

To yourself you can again become fascinating.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 15th, 2020 | No Comments »

Playful otter

What are your playful oughts?
Playful otter be

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 14th, 2020 | No Comments »

A poet might

A poet might see….

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 14th, 2020 | No Comments »
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