Not naked
We want to be seen. But not naked. Our primal tension.
:- Doug.
What is the human’s task? The task of the elder is to ask this very question.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
The freedom of being invisible
A tension. In conversation. How much of each one’s soul comes out to play. How much is recognized, realized, and expressed. How much is withheld in fear. Of hurting the other. Of saying the whole truth. Of being naked. We want desperately. To be seen. To be heard. Yet we want the freedom of being invisible. Tension. Of a higher quality.
:- Doug.
turns, spins, flows
Conversation turns and spins
dialogue flows
both to love & converse more
:- Doug.
The wholesome, the putrid
The wholesome, the putrid, all of life: this is what I am seeking to meet in all this poetry.
:- Doug.
Death, confronting you for the sake of life
How does death, your death, confront you for the sake of life—how you live it today, how those ongoing depend on what you do?
:- Doug.
stand in the breath of truth
Do we stand in the breath of truth
in every dialogue
to bear or shrink from his wind?
:- Doug.
We shall not overcome
We shall not overcome
the tension of the opposing storms
rather work to being them to fruitfulness
:- Doug.
Tension: playing and giving
One tension of eldering is between playing and giving: taking pleasure and being with. We cannot merely dissolve the tension, for instance by playing with grandchildren, for the action can readily veer to mindless play or overt lessons: we must stay in both.
:- Doug.
