The largest
Poetry making is about your relationship to your meaning-finding, to humanity and these humans, to the largest you can conceive, in this writing day.
:- Doug.
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Reflexive why
Be reflexive—ask why you noticed this, wrote about that, used these characteristic words.
:- Doug.
Sweaty, and slow, slow
Slow your thinking
In the twitch of an eye
thoughts carry you away
from thinking
Dead and stinking
memories thoughts are
moving too fast
to see what they did to you
Know: thinking is the work
you do not want to do
laborious, sweaty, and slow, slow
:- Doug.
Words, images, clear, bubble gum
Reflecting often goes like this for me: My mind is sound, and full of sound. It hops around, a hundred jumping fleas, each making me itch, each carrying a word, a task, an idea. I shush the words. A picture of a still lake surface at dawn helps. Fog on the meadow. I tell the images, no thanks. If all goes well, I can float in the clear for a bit. I am again a nine year old, lying on the cool grass, watching the clouds, not caring about anything but the clouds morphing. Maybe I glimpse something significant. So shush the words, shush the images, find the clear. Then I remember that I do this for bubble gum: I look for what sticks us one to the other.
:- Doug.
Poetry making helps
Poetry making might help you with something as surface as marketing or as deepening as your relationship to humanity and all mystery.
:- Doug.
What do poets make?
What do poets make?
Meaning?
Intention? Purpose?
Certainly not merely rhyme
Gatherings of mystery?
:- Doug.
bubble gum one to the other
Reflect in silence
shush words
say no thanks to images
float where it’s clear
do it for this people
seek the bubble gum
sticking us one to the other
:- Doug.
Marks and speak?
What is it in people that thinks we should leave marks, have our lives speak?
:- Doug.
Juicier person
Perhaps we’d produce juicer fruit by seeking out that one person in 1,000 or 10,000 working on and worked by it.
:- Doug.
Question your questions
Question your questions
ever seek questions
dynamic and difficult
deeper than Why and Why again
and helped by it
:- Doug.
