Good they don’t see
People have good in them even when they don’t see it.
:- Doug.
Let us shine some darkness into the light assaulting us on every side, to see the mystery and possibility hiding from the glare of unseeing light.
:- Doug.
Archive for April, 2021
Each pledges?
What responsibility do we have to our 11th generation? What responsibility do they have to us? That is to say, what responsibility do we have to our 11th generation preceding ancestors? What does each pledge to the others?
:- Doug.
hot breaths on our neck
Maybe it’s not that democracy is under pressure, but we are, there being so many of us and in the state of population compression. Our technology allows us to hear so many voices and feel so many hot breaths on our necks. We are forced into little pods. We have yet to figure out how to live with so many so close by. We are after all the children of Daniel Boone who said his neighbor was getting too close when he could see the smoke from his chimney.
:- Doug.
It matters to ask
It matters what question you ask the grandchildren
It matters that you ask the grandchildren
:- Doug.
long wave rolling
I am enjoying this long wave rolling through me. Would it expands me. The crest is fun, the tube is fun, the crash is, just is, and sometimes the coasting is, just is.
:- Doug.
My own play
This is a plan for my own play with my immediate grandchildren. Did you see what you said? Did you smell what you spouted? Here then might be poetry!
:- Doug.
Wakeners to edit
That took some time to mine what was there, to find more poems and wakeners, to edit and make stronger more faithful what I had written.
:- Doug.
cotton candy into the blue
It is mostly blue skies, with wisps of cirrus pulling cotton candy into the blue.
:- Doug.
A poem calls to attend
I think I will lean more to speaking of writing poems, or even poems writing me, rather than poetry. Poetry is a general category: a poem calls me to attend.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2032–We can find each other
Footprints in the Windsm # 2032
The conversation is in finding and receiving the elders of the generations. We can be received, we can receive those we have seen before, we can receive those behind our eyes coming after us. They all can receive us. We can find each other.
So we do not need simultaneous synchronous converse. To grasp the other, to find the other, is sufficient. It is a mystery, it is mystical, yes, and it is within our normal day-to-day ken.
Please pass it on.
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Diminishments and losses
Diminishments and losses consolidate us. In successive wave we gain, consolidate, gain and consolidate.
:- Doug.
we find our stuff
Just here, in tragedy, we find our stuff. Just here, in our joy and their need.
:- Doug.
