Watch where you look
Attend, attend, attend!
Watch where you look
What you take in—or don’t
Of whom are you conscious?
Of when are we aware?
Of those we experience as different?
Of emerging not-yets we can meet?
:- Doug.
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toward a better later
disrupt the before
toward a better later
insert reflection
but how?
only invite
:- Doug.
Bequeath the space
Bequeath the space
open
to others
fearlessly
or with fear our companion, courageously
:- Doug.
unforeseen the horizons
Wider, more unforeseen the horizons
opened to our search
the times we express our heart and will
:- Doug.
Change the world or enjoy it
Some want to change the world and some want to enjoy it. Can they? Together?
:- Doug.
Arise inhere emerge create?
Does God arise from all this? Inhere in all this? Emerge with all this? Create all this? Invent all this? How do we relate? What role shall we take on? Whom do we think we are, for surely that is whom we are?
;- Doug.
Maybe there is no organization out there
We sense what is in our heads, seldom what is out there. We reconstruct the scene, and live that out. So we should and have no other choice. Maybe there is no organization out there. No matter: sharing the organization we imagine, we construct, engender, and nourish our world, our wholeness.
:- Doug.
“Rely on increasingly sublime energies”
“Rely on increasingly sublime energies”
Writes Teilhard and true:
The more we grow the more we
Run up to and cross the threshold
Energized by our unity
:- Doug.
Transform your neighborhood
Becomes united into one
This world when little things are done:
Leave behind material,
Immediate, and ego-centered,
Die! Transform your neighborhood
:- Doug.
Did Emily write knowing of
Did Emily write knowing of
This other poet’s poem?
Presupposes the poets
Were wholly separate particles
So too the reader asking
Who first among inventors invented
Same thing? can be irrelevant
All in the commons shared
:- Doug.
Bladder says Get up
Bladder says Get up
Let me sleep!
After, back in bed
Sphincter joins in, barking
Roll to stomach, maybe this
Hand falls asleep but not I
Words float up of their own accord
Remind me of the day’s agenda
Responsibility and enjoyment
Tell me things I must remember
Against sleep-in day: conspiracy!
:- Doug.
it takes courage to open
The question is not what technology we have rather how we elect to use it. Over the millennia we have touched by grunts then words then writing then printing then telephones then email then texting now more will come. At each step I imagine parents decried the lack of “real” contact. Both parents and the new generation were right: it is a waste to pour out words without intent to share souls; each technology transcends and includes the former, increasing the channels by which with one another to be real. Both fall short: it takes courage to open heart and mind and will.
:- Doug.
intimately to you I speak
Each a—
partial center
particular overlook
particular actualizing
—of the whole
intimately to you
I speak to the world
:- Doug.
