Expanding play
Making playful poetry expands imagination
beyond simply seeing what we can see
expanding us
:- Doug.
Making playful poetry expands imagination
beyond simply seeing what we can see
expanding us
:- Doug.
Playful poetry expands our very nature
no longer who I was a moment ago
now human
:- Doug.
I’m hearing that some people are having more dreams in covid time. Know anyone who has?
:- Doug.
Maybe you don’t need a reason
A why to write poetry
Poetry may be why enough
:- Doug.
What fascinates
about your self and friends
and their worlds in covid time?
:- Doug.
Be fascinated by the person’s actions; run away from binary thinking to shades and tints and hues.
:- Doug.
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.
My purpose is to ask us to think bigger, and that requires we use our imaginations—together. Together here is a scary word.
:- Doug.
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.
Please pass it on.
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When you talk with your customers/referrers/patients/friends, what vulnerabilities do they exhibit? What are you doing to address them?
:- Doug.
In what ways do you feel vulnerable now? To what extent vulnerable, say on a 1-10 scale?
:- Doug.