This is ripping the grey cloth:
When we converse we are ripping the grey cloth that prevents us from activating the divinity among us.
:- Doug.
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chemo like blood-letting?
How is chemotherapy and radiation like the older medical practice of blood-letting?
:- Doug.
We are caught in the age-old quandary
We are caught in the age-old quandary—how do I do my calling and still eat? So we put the emphasis on the wrong syllable and choose to go after eating. Being a good steward means doing our work in the world first and the rest comes second. People have need of us. They have need of the best of us.
:- Doug.
This is the issue, is it not?
That is the issue is it not
Will we keep doing daily things that here us got
Or do the things that need be done—
To meet our neighbor, world & G*d
Do we work for good & true & right
That which calls us to our light
Or that which earns a buck?
To either god we sacrifice our life
This is the human issue age to age
Do we housebreak, domesticate
What would have been our higher way?
:- Doug.
We who are afraid to step out beyond our own imagination
To live inside God’s imagination
Is the only possibility
Until we see we are invited
to step out beyond our own
We who are afraid to do little
of what our own imagination offers
:- Doug.
a place where you and they cease all separateness
There is a place in conversing where you and they cease all separateness and become one moving. This is where we turn the world.
:- Doug.
As poetry is the work of moving, so
As poetry is the work of moving, so conversing’s work is moving.
:- Doug.
You wait in vain who wait for power people
You wait in vain who wait for power people
To accept your invitations
Invite without ceasing
Invite the voices unheard
Invite the ones on our margins
Invite those who share the care
Invite & keep moving
& if you’re moving well
Some in power will accept
& come to what is now Our party
You wait in vain who wait for power people
Cede them no veto
Invite without ceasing
:- Doug.
There is magic here inside in our
There is a magic here, here inside in our imaginings and our poetics and our wisdom. Will we set it free? Will we remain timid in its face? Can we just try once?
:- Doug.
Divinity converses: not with
Divinity converses:
not with us,
but in our conversings
Listen beyond the words
to the tune
of our
conver-sings
:- Doug.
I offer you this truth that in between
I offer you this truth, that in between us is a truth, hidden in a veil and an enigma that bears the terrible name of work. And that truth is that we have available to us divinity which is imagining and creating a new reality not connected with our old.
:- Doug.
Poetry is the work of telling the seeing
Poetry to me is the work of telling the truth, telling the seeing. Maybe it is the pointing to the seeing, to the thing seen.
:- Doug.
Who are the people I’m among?
Who are the people I’m among? For it is here that I must work.
:- Doug.
We don’t need a magic question as much as
It’s not so much a magic question we need to ask, but to seek out the person within the person, the genius, the wise one, the one touched by the larger than life. So it is a matter of approaching kindly, stumblingly if that’s the way it comes out, but with the desire to find something, the something of great value in this one.
:- Doug.
