Flowers opened
Flowers opened
seeds sent forth
full used up!
worry not how it turns out
Give your seed
your scent
your particular beauty!
:- Doug.
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This vision strange
Given me
this vision strange
“open his eyes” the prophet said
“rip the grey cloth” you said
“poke holes, poke holes”
So others may see
what they have not yet seen
Such a load upon my shoulders!
I suppose it fits
On earth
perform the vision
for people
to see
:- Doug.
To whom do I wish to speak?
To whom do I wish to speak? Those who can be influenced to take the next step.
:- Doug.
I have such an excitign life of
I have such an exciting life of Spirit and spirit. I have so many friends: Blake, Rumi, Rilke, Jesus, G*d, Corrigan, Holman, Owen, Ricchiuto, Herman, Sambosky, Wheatley, Metzger, Eckhart, Fox, Merton, Douglas-Klotz, Houston, Teilhard….
:- Doug.
Each person finds his or her own way
Each person finds his or her own way
but are there ways that have worked?
are there new ways we can forge
for others to follow?
new paths to initiate?
:- Doug.
On the far side of conflict…?
What is on
the far side
of conflict?
beyond the love that
lets us hear—
attend—each other?
Curiosity and Imagination
may take us there
but where is there?
Our contraries are
hammered to shards
we are ground up and
thrown into clay
new vessels to
pour out new fires
upon the earth
fires to lick our
sacred structures
fires to be fought
—fearsome conflicts—
new betweens
new beyonds
and all rolls on
as I have told
and question asked
and question asked
:- Doug.
Poet, you must be prophet
Poet, you must be prophet
if you are to be true
to your work
Forth-tell!
Blake: “If you go on so
you will get so”
Vision-teller, imaginer,
creator
Raise your voice
:- Doug.
the work of vision-seers
Poetry is the work
of vision-seers
and prophets
Are you a poet?
This is your work
:- Doug.
Have we reached the peak?
Have we reached the peak?
Done all we could?
Think you so?
Then you have missed the mark.
:- Doug.
Open space is a potluck
Open space is a potluck of ideas, questions, stories,
wonderings,
Whos, Hows, Whys, Wows,
imaginations, stories, truth, spirit, and
hope
:- Doug.
Change and action and love and collaboration and
Change and action and love and collaboration and engaging people are me! Imagination is me! The me I have imagined is only a shadow of the me I could imagine. The imagination and its products are real, the most real part of me, for they say I am not held down to the past or the spectres or fates or skin: I am more than I am. And the human imagination is larger than me. I am only part; whole we are more.
:- Doug.
What we seek is who we are
What we seek is who we are
who we are is who we seek
who we are is seeking us
a universe spinning and far far more
Nor simply capable of the universe
we are multiverses of universes
The key is not hidden
only not visible
Imagination, passion—spirit
are where we are more
than our skins and pasts
There is yet more to us
right there in the between of presence
:- Doug.
If we want…
If we want abundance and diversity and love, we must plant abundance and diversity and love.
:- Doug.
We have many throw-away people
We have many throw-away people in our day: most anybody who is not a leader: for we ignore these people and try to manipulate them to do our bidding. And we the people allow them to do this to us.
:- Doug.
What vision did Jesus see?
What vision did Jesus see? He saw temptation in the form of bread and kingdoms and selfishness. He saw jumping off the pinnacle of the temple as a statement of the wrong kind of faith or trust that trusts in our own doctrine more than in a real world which has been turned over to humans to form and make work within certain “laws of nature.” This in fact is the temptation that so many today fall prey to: if you pray hard enough, if you squeeze your eyes tight enough, you will become rich, famous, with nary a care.
:- Doug.
Salvation enslaves
Salvation is a word used to enslave people, for the emphasis is on the thing to be avoided, not on the thing to be done, on the devil and not the divinity.
:- Doug.
