Archive for October, 2020

Hear what are

people only
Hear
what they are
prepared to
Taste

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 31st, 2020 | No Comments »

Stories and poems live

Stories and poems live
in metaphor
as metaphor

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 31st, 2020 | No Comments »

More true to what you meant

When you use a metaphor in your story or poem, ask, What kind of X is that? Go two or three steps: your metaphor can grow more true to what you meant, more concrete.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 31st, 2020 | No Comments »

We dream in metaphor

We dream in metaphor
No, our metaphors
Are our dreams

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 30th, 2020 | No Comments »

laying a snare

You are laying a snare
to take the mind

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 30th, 2020 | No Comments »

All human activity is to express

All human activity is to express
When heard the circle completes
Being heard makes a person

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 30th, 2020 | No Comments »

Foggy good

Some fog out there today—that is good for the imaginary.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2020 | No Comments »

The imaginary larger

The imaginary world is larger than the real. That’s what gives it a pull across centuries.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2020 | No Comments »

funny is not

What he classes as funny is not, and is not intended as, funny.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2020 | No Comments »

First fruitings

My first fruitings
of the day
give to divinity underarching

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2020 | No Comments »

Their eyes tell you

Tell your story
their questions their eyes
tell you

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2020 | No Comments »

inter-stand the world

We make the world
in order to inter-stand it
We invent worlds
in order to find

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2020 | No Comments »

Remember the children

Footprints in the Windsm # 1992

Remember the 545.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 28th, 2020 | No Comments »

in wholes

This course encourages
you to think to dream
in wholes, completes

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 26th, 2020 | No Comments »

Soak up the music

Immerse the grandchild
in any environs
her essence will soak up the music

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 26th, 2020 | No Comments »

To write is less

Sometimes to write something is to make it less significant.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 26th, 2020 | No Comments »

Our plash

We are placing ourselves into a larger flow. Our plash has an effect.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 26th, 2020 | No Comments »

Is it awe or wonder?

Is this awe, or wonder? A mix? Does meaning serve this?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 26th, 2020 | No Comments »

With your mother’s eyes

With your mother’s eyes
    Are you called to life
From out of her womb
    Her eyes search yours search
And you are known
With your mother’s eyes
    You are called forth
You gazing back
    Become known
    Become person
    Become real

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 25th, 2020 | No Comments »

Loves stretching

What is a mind
That it is so easily stretched
That it stretches at all?
That it loves to be
And is frightened to be?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 25th, 2020 | No Comments »

Mystery-teller

I am a mystery-teller
For you I offer a mystery
Ancestors

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 25th, 2020 | No Comments »

Temperature of the deeps

Some progress on ancestor thinking. Inheritance, kinship, sustenance, mutuality, weave. Change those to verbs: Inherit, kin, sustain, mutual, weave, feed, eat, nurture, digest, strengthen, direct, point, sing, story-tell, flow, contradict, oppose, negate the negation, walk, maintain. What is the image, the fragrance, the tune, the rhythm, the texture and temperature of the surface and the deeps?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 25th, 2020 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1991–Ancestors but plural

Footprints in the Windsm # 1991

We came from star-stuff gathering to waters to dry land and the grasses appeared and the beings too small to see and they gathered into communities called grasses and larger and larger and into beings with fins and with legs four and two and more and so our ancestors are not one but plural and we are plenty and beauty and living and dying and rounding and we today eat of these breathe of these stand on these are these and


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 24th, 2020 | No Comments »
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