Monthly Archives: August 2020

Taking my time

Have been taking my time and feeling guilty for it, like I should get moving. Yet slowness is for savoring this life. :- Doug.

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fingers on different keys

type with fingers on different keys read with eyes for random “words” :- Doug.

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Porpoise hollers

creativity has a pragmatic purpose imagination plays without rains porpoises jump about making hoops and hollers :- Doug.

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Poet enough

You could be poet enough. :- Doug.

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Change rules

Change the rules What are the rules? What rules your days? :- Doug.

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Last energy

Service takes willingness to expend one’s last energy—and then gives you more. :- Doug.

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Playfully skippingly slowly

Slowly savoringly lostly Dreamily slowly flowingly Playfully skippingly slowly :- Doug.

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I can rhythm

I can rhyme and I can rhythm There they go and I go with ‘em :- Doug.

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Definitions for ancestors?

Definitions seek to capture the essence of a word. To be succinct. Which is to say, be easy to remember, easy to test. For ancestors does this well trod path cover the territory, what these ancestors did, and more importantly … Continue reading

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Ask your fingers

I don’t know what you should write about: ask your writing fingers. :- Doug.

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A poet might see:

A poet might see: longer, funnier, sillier, serious-er, missed things, missing things, a way to go missing, inside another, inside the poet, inside out, backwards, unknowns, more, less, blindly, sounds, colors, fragrances, feelings, hot, cold, wet, emotions, uplift, downdraft, playful, … Continue reading

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Remake the poet?

How might our poetry be? How might our poetry remake the poet? :- Doug.

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Again fascinating

To yourself you can again become fascinating. :- Doug.

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Playful otter

What are your playful oughts? Playful otter be :- Doug.

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A poet might

A poet might see…. :- Doug.

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Making poetry

Making poetry slow reflect savor making poetry :- Doug.

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Disembark this train

Before you disembark this train you’d ought to see what you can see. :- Doug.

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