let’s try this on again
A heart
available vulnerable lost
let’s try this on again
:- Doug.
This is the deeper
level of practicing law
with this one walk lost
:- Doug.
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The honey bee is not lost
The trees in the forest
are not lost
The honey bee in the field of wildflowers
is not lost
The snowflakes in the hurricane
are not lost
But you, human, have the
ability to find yourself lost
and that can make all
:- Doug.
There is more in our conversation than mere words
There is more in our conversation than mere words.
:- Doug.
You my parents and grandparents
A thread of life there runs
from you my parents and grandparents
back through eons of eons
through me to you my children and grandchildren
on forward eons of eons
it counts for us as immortality
’tis up to me this thread to spin to spin
:- Doug.
Breadcrumbs well lost
Breadcrumbs
These inklings are
Dropped along the way
Not so I can find my way back out
But so I can find my way back in
These are evidence
I am well found and lost
:- Doug.
When I’m 95
In every way that matters
When I’m 95
When you’re 95
We will see
In every way that matters
We are just like each other
Let’s start now
:- Doug.
Take life as an example:
Take life as an example:
You move—you have life
You want it to go on—life has you
:- Doug.
What you lose, you will find
What you lose, you will find
Who leaves you, will return
You victim, will be victim no more
Open, tell your story, forgive
You will be found, be embraced, free yourself
:- Doug.
Bird chases bird
Bird chases bird
Are they grieving or embracing?
Four-year old chases
Seven-year old around the house
Are they challenging, fighting
Or are they playing, loving?
You and the person opposite
Resisting you-do you
Fear death of your ideas—or you
Or do you stay in the room because
This person you somehow need?
:- Doug.
You contain worlds of worlds
We belong to one another We belong to the universe Each belongs to each All belong to all We are members one of another We contain the all as much as the all contains us Each person you meet contains you whole as you contain all whom you have met Walt contained worlds and you contain worlds of worlds you will never fathom and yet they have fathomed you and you they somewhere in your now Sing your songs for you are singing our songs of grieving and embrace All life’s roots are in grieving and embrace Poetry still tells our story in silence and exploding words
:- Doug.
All our deeps
All our deeps in resistance and embrace
These twain are one
Prove all life is one
:- Doug.
one pile all legs and arms
Eyes come out to play
Voices toss and catch the winds
Bodies line up to oppose
Soon one pile all legs and arms
Laughter weaves us a larger whole
:- Doug.
If I give you a penny
If I give you a penny & you
Give me yours
We part each with one only
If I pour out to you my soul
And you pour out to me yours
We each have a twice as big soul
Large enough to push out
The edges of the universe
:- Doug.
opportunity to be rare
Every conversation has an opportunity to be rare
Nothing’s so rare
As to make openings in the clouds
Nothing’s so rare
& possible
:- Doug.
Conversation is not words
Conversation is not words
rather an exchange of being
poetry flowing
:- Doug.
