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To make poetry is to make imagination
To make stumble stones out of speaking out to a powerful person
To imagine what a moral life might be
To imagine grasping another’s beating heart from out their breast
To spark your imagining into 2 or 3 others

:- Doug.

Poetry processes

:- Doug.

Poetry’s our playful exploring, to see what we can see, what larger we can become, what larger service we can be. How do we outlast ourselves?

:- Doug.

Poetry teaches
What have you to learn?
Observation?
Patience?
Play?
Exploration?
What?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1979

The only way we’ll get there is if we play.

Please pass it on.

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Present to us
multiple hues
flavors corduroys
unwrappable
evocative

:- Doug.

Here’s a place to record profundities
or to coax them into light
or to give them birth, bloody and howling

Here’s a place to actually think
and to put on hold certain ways of thinking
there’s a science deeper there’s an art

Here’s a place to find yourself

:- Doug.

Making playful poetry expands imagination
beyond simply seeing what we can see
expanding us

:- Doug.

Playful poetry expands our very nature
no longer who I was a moment ago
now human

:- Doug.

Poetry is taking care with words taking care of life.

:- Doug.

What are ways to invite poems to visit you?

:- Doug.

Write a poem to be read by elders in 300 years.

:- Doug.

I’m hearing that some people are having more dreams in covid time. Know anyone who has?

:- Doug.

Seeds will sprout
as they will
or not

:- Doug.