Monthly Archives: November 2020

Why tell your story?

Why tell your story, if it is not out beyond life and death? :- Doug.

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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

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Reason, kindly

Use reason, kindly. :- Doug.

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Tell well

Do the good work. Write well. Tell well. :- Doug.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Standard cute baby

True growth is in mutating standard cute baby becomes engineer who makes, tyrant who imprisons :- Doug.

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Throw us off the cliff

Magnify and morph Throw us off the cliff Teller, we need you! :- Doug.

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Teller’s two joys

Now I flow Now I radiate A teller’s two joys :- Doug.

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Magnify worlds

Make it large and demanding Magnify worlds O Poet! :- Doug.

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Fuzzy frees

Withhold precision fuzzy frees imagination to get active setting the peoples on a journey :- Doug.

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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.

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Challenge your reader

You need to be a challenge to your reader. :- Doug.

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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.

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Soon lightning

Nietzsche’s long-remaining cloud am I soon lightning :- Doug.

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Poet: your work!

Life must develop poet: your work! :- Doug.

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