Monthly Archives: November 2020
Why tell your story?
Why tell your story, if it is not out beyond life and death? :- Doug.
Resist and you cannot get
We are leaning things about ourselves and what life presents to us. There is some part of us which does not want to grow. When you resist you cannot get to the other side. How was I to know I … Continue reading
Reason, kindly
Use reason, kindly. :- Doug.
Tell well
Do the good work. Write well. Tell well. :- Doug.
To whom offer your work?
To whom might you offer your work, as unto a father or mother of your craft of millennia ago? :- Doug.
Sculpt your song
Poet, around you feel the shape of the space in which you are working this moment: use that shape to sculpt your song, to hew your rhythms. Pat, push, and stretch spheroids out of cubes, toruses out of pyramids. :- … Continue reading
Heed the brook’s voice
opposites in tension give us the thing to teach but how do we find courage to open our mouth? heed the brook’s voice :- Doug.
Standard cute baby
True growth is in mutating standard cute baby becomes engineer who makes, tyrant who imprisons :- Doug.
Throw us off the cliff
Magnify and morph Throw us off the cliff Teller, we need you! :- Doug.
Teller’s two joys
Now I flow Now I radiate A teller’s two joys :- Doug.
Magnify worlds
Make it large and demanding Magnify worlds O Poet! :- Doug.
Fuzzy frees
Withhold precision fuzzy frees imagination to get active setting the peoples on a journey :- Doug.
Defy like life
Not only your characters but your images and the lessons you teach all need contraries, subtexts, struggles, and dilemmas. Otherwise how can they defy like life? :- Doug.
Challenge your reader
You need to be a challenge to your reader. :- Doug.
don’t describe the inn
The work of the teller and the poet is to start us on our journey, not to describe the inn. :- Doug.
Soon lightning
Nietzsche’s long-remaining cloud am I soon lightning :- Doug.
Poet: your work!
Life must develop poet: your work! :- Doug.