Where words do not avail
Maybe those with failing words
are traveling ever deeper
into realms where words do not avail
:- Doug.
Maybe those with failing words
are traveling ever deeper
into realms where words do not avail
:- Doug.
So what might be the advantages, the powers of being ephemeral? We don’t care: we can speak without unnecessary filters. We cannot be harmed.
The advantages of being ethereal are similar. We are permeable and impermeable at once. Stab us, and your dagger goes right through, you fall, we stand. We also are closer to eternal, holy, whole things.
The powers of being evanescent? Seeing larger, longer. Seeing life and death: complete cycles.
Elder powers are in giving humanity back to humanity.
:- Doug.
though I did not sweat
this meeting was wrestling
beyond pinning gathering
:- Doug.
Shadows on the wall
light plays right to left
left to right
I am taken up
taken up
woven between among
holy mended complete
:- Doug.
What does it mean “Sometimes I cannot tell the difference between living and staring out the window?” What is the value of that for the generations?
:- Doug.
If a butterfly flapping changes the weather, might your meaning-full breath advance generations?
:- Doug.
Breathe upon us another kind of breath
one you cannot hold, nor anyone
:- Doug.
I do like floating, gossamer things. They too can be concrete. Concrete floats in the air!
:- Doug.
Meaning speaks through poetry
I do not yet but must seek over and again to
understand
:- Doug.