Monthly Archives: August 2020

See what you can

The purpose of poetry is not to see larger The purpose is not to uncover your psyche The purpose is to see what you can see :- Doug.

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Personal Hugging Equipment!

Let’s invent Personal Hugging Equipment! :- Doug.

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Edges of the fog

Poetry is making clear the edges of the fog Poetry is making clear the beauty of the fog Poetry is making clear the learnings in the fog :- Doug.

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Tableau of fog and valley

But life goes on and so our train moved on I knew that tableau of fog and valley and beauty will never repeat nor will its lessons yet it is important at that instant out that window I was looking … Continue reading

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Visit many

Visit many and varied places in your life, watch mental movies of things barely remembered, see: your long musings matter.

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Through this catastrophe

Old ones ought to be explorers Why? Because we are less attached to raising family, making a name because we’d be good at exploring Old lawyers ought to be poets Because we’d be good at it less attached seeing wider … Continue reading

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Poetry signifies

Poetry signifies moving back a step or two from our normal, rational, analytical world. Poetry signifies a larger, longer, wider, more profound view. Poetry signifies slowing the mind to think more. Poetry signifies attention. Poetry signifies taking in, assimilating, being … Continue reading

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A train through the skies

Play more. Write images. Carry yourself along to larger, a train through the skies. Ghosts of you past and future. :- Doug.

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Of your life?

Of your life, what is the work? :- Doug.

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Write more

Write more. For writing is thinking. Writing is conversing. :- Doug.

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New under sun

Yes there is something new under the sun. You. :- Doug.

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These things in your heart

I’m not actually talking about poetry. This too is poetry in the sense I mean. Thinking, ahh thinking, thinking long. Wide. Far. Pondering. These things in your heart. Playfully. :- Doug.

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Needle skips a groove

Poetry is a test run in new ways to think the needle skips a groove you hear the juxtaposition you start to sing a new song :- Doug.

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Know which to shake

Our role is to shake up and we know which things :- Doug.

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Work of dying might live

The work of dying might live in letting loose :- Doug.

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Through this catastrophe

Old ones ought to be explorers Why? Because we are less attached to raising family, making a name because we’d be good at exploring Old lawyers ought to be poets Because we’d be good at it less attached seeing wider … Continue reading

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Poetry rules

Here are the rules There are no rules Or not rhythm Or not rhyme Short lines long Get it down Let it out to play :- Doug.

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