Into the pressure cooker
Into
The pressure cooker
Good heads, good hearts,
A tangled question
Heat
Out comes action,
Change, Metamorphosis!
:- Doug
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Arose those colors from the meadow floor
Arose those colors from the meadow floor
Flowers floated above their stems
In twos and threes around each other they spun
As I looked on, a center emerged
On it the whole began to turn
A transformation of butterflies!
In less than a minute they twinkled off
Dispersing, taking the larger of me
:- Doug.
Organized around their resignations
People are organized around their resignations, their apathies, their anonymities. A better world for their children seems unlikely. This is the necessary first front of community disorganization. Work here.
:- Doug.
Little children playing
What would become of us if there weren’t little children playing for us?
:- Doug.
of love, of storm, of screaming
To converse is a spiritual act
of love, of storm,
of screaming birth
:- Doug.
The opening
The opening
Comes about every moment
Miss it once it comes again
Miss it every time it stays away
Grab your ring this is your life
:- Doug.
The revolution to come
The revolution to come
comes with us
on our little tentative steps
do what makes you come alive
that is revolution enough
and brings in the larger
:- Doug.
Creative people: greetings!
Creative people: greetings!
to grow, to do it well
walk the path within the path
we’re not full grown and never to be
dance to the music many do not hear
attend the birds who, falling, are given wings
lay bare the soul of the people
repeat after me, I set me on fire, watch me burn
:- Doug.
A brilliance of butterflies
What is a group of butterflies? I was thinking it was a brilliance, but did not find that right off. The words I am finding are rabble, flight, swarm. Also kaleidoscope, flutter, rainbow. Well then I will name them a brilliance!
:- Doug.
We free the body of its tasks
We free the body of its tasks
We free the spirit to works within
:- Doug.
A paradox as we age:
A paradox as we age:
We discard the unessential
Yet we grow, take in panoramas
:- Doug.
What does bringing our authentic selves mean as we age?
What does bringing out our authentic selves mean as we age?
As we peel away the layers, the roles, the masks
Does this question become more urgent?
And what of our friends who are there and no longer there?
Some of us do not care, and some maybe pretend not to care….
:- Doug.
not as scary as dust
what conversation means:
a change, a death: a scary thing,
but not as scary as turning to dust
:- Doug.
Butterflies from the pressure cooker
Butterflies from the pressure cooker:
Invite in three-legged caterpillars
—Power, Heart, Knowledge—
Good heads plus good hearts
Plus a tangled question
Turn up the heat
Out they come in profusion!
:- Doug.
My work is discontinuity
My work is discontinuity
of future to past and present
of possibility to despair
:- Doug.
Everything is not revealed
Everything is not revealed in statistics
They are not even the way to knowledge
:- Doug.
Through the sieves and funnels of my work
Through the sieves and funnels of my work
I pour forth on life my message
Hope some spills over
:- Doug.
At the meeting place of two generations
At the meeting place of two generations
our respected elders and the one just behind
one or two turns—this is where I work
:- Doug.
I am fresh
I am fresh
to understand the universe
to understand yourself
you cannot catch up to understand me
says the unfurling
:- Doug.
