Monthly Archives: September 2020
If you can enter
If you can enter the mystery of the poem you share its strength :- Doug.
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Flowing words
Is a poem flowing words or flowing images? Must or flow among? :- Doug.
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Maker of persons
This is the time to do the work I really want to do. I am no longer afraid I will become stale, for I will have folks with whom to converse—I will find them. I am maker of persons, maker … Continue reading
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Wisened?
It’s a choice as you age are you wisened or only wizened? :- Doug.
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(yes I challenge you)
Life gets happier Life becomes integral —as you examine yours— (yes I challenge you) Of what’s your integrality consist? Of what’s your happiness? :- Doug.
Delicious ongoingness
Poems have no goal nor end and only a delicious ongoingness :- Doug.
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Inside your next poem
Inside your next poem may be inside the mystery :- Doug.
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Choose your story
Maybe by the end of the course you’ll choose what story to write. To write is to explore A course is life Maybe is all there is :- Doug.
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Teaching my life
What I’m teaching is my life What you’re learning is story writing Perhaps :- Doug.
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Softly–hardly
Aren’t we the pair? I talk softly You hear hardly :- Doug.
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Bright line of old people poetry
I was going to tell you about the 17 or so poems I wrote in response to an event to figure out what happened, to ask myself what I could have done differently, to ask myself why this was so … Continue reading
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Sanding imperfections
I like my writing today. It still has edges needing trimming, sanding, finish sanding, yet it feels of me. Then again, maybe the edges belong, like the intentional imperfections in a Japanese painting. :- Doug.
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Might be the whole
This last might be the start of a poem, or it might be the whole. :- Doug.
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Reflect now to find beauty
Reflect now to find beauty you have found yourself :- Doug.
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Old Lawyer fun?
What are the fun parts of being an Old Lawyer? :- Doug.
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