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Expanding play

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

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 2nd, 2020 | No Comments »

Playfully now human

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

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 2nd, 2020 | No Comments »

Taking care taking care

Poetry is taking care with words taking care of life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 2nd, 2020 | No Comments »

Invite poems to visit?

What are ways to invite poems to visit you?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 1st, 2020 | No Comments »

A poem for 300

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

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 1st, 2020 | No Comments »

More dreams these days?

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

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 1st, 2020 | No Comments »

Seeds will sprout

Seeds will sprout
as they will
or not

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 1st, 2020 | No Comments »

A why to write poetry

Maybe you don’t need a reason
A why to write poetry
Poetry may be why enough

:- Doug.

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

Curiosity working on you

Poetry is curiosity working on you.

:- Doug.

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

Curiosity pen

Curiosity is our pen

:- Doug.

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

Friendly fascinating

What fascinates
about your self and friends
and their worlds in covid time?

:- Doug.

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

Fascinating hues

Be fascinated by the person’s actions; run away from binary thinking to shades and tints and hues.

:- Doug.

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

Covid play?

How can covid times help us create, invent, and play with our friends?

:- Doug.

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

Wizened bird

All-hearing all-seeing drone up in the sky
Re-examine events yes but also the poet
For the wizened bird here’s poetry’s role

:- Doug.

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

So poetry?

What are the “So thats” of writing poetry?

:- Doug.

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

Scary word

My purpose is to ask us to think bigger, and that requires we use our imaginations—together. Together here is a scary word.

:- Doug.

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

need the sparks

It’s not that this is wrong
It’s that we need the sparks

:- Doug.

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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1977–covid hold

Footprints in the Windsm # 1977

In COVID-19 time we think we are not in real living, not in the real world. We walk through our days as though on hold. Waiting to live like we did before. Wasting nows. Wasting life.


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Published in: Conversations | on August 23rd, 2020 | No Comments »

Poetry is a state of mind

Poetry is a state of mind
Seeing

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 21st, 2020 | No Comments »

Talking with friends

When you talk with your customers/referrers/patients/friends, what vulnerabilities do they exhibit? What are you doing to address them?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 21st, 2020 | No Comments »

In the war?

“Gram, what did you do in the COVID-19 war?”

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 21st, 2020 | No Comments »

Feel vulnerable now?

In what ways do you feel vulnerable now? To what extent vulnerable, say on a 1-10 scale?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 21st, 2020 | No Comments »

Bigger work?

What is your work in the world? What is a bigger view of that? Bigger still?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 20th, 2020 | No Comments »
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