Author Archives: dgermann
Give a job to invent
Give each generation a job to invent. :- Doug.
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edge transition zones of grandchildren?
What are the natural successions, the profusions of leaves and roots, edge-transition zones, multiple canopies, the genius loci which occurs in crops and grandchildren? :- Doug.
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More frightening thing
The more frightening thing— Not to do my poetry :- Doug.
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Polyculture grandchildren
Polyculture posits not controlling conditions, but having enough variety that no matter the conditions, many flourish, and the others do not suffer unduly. Think polyculture of grandchildren. :- Doug.
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Jump into community
We ask how we might jump into the stream of these ancestors, for it may just be possible to establish community with them. :- Doug.
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Good they don’t see
People have good in them even when they don’t see it. :- Doug.
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Each pledges?
What responsibility do we have to our 11th generation? What responsibility do they have to us? That is to say, what responsibility do we have to our 11th generation preceding ancestors? What does each pledge to the others? :- Doug.
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It matters to ask
It matters what question you ask the grandchildren It matters that you ask the grandchildren :- Doug.
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keep in store
Stories are the keep in store for future use of humanity :- Doug.
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My own play
This is a plan for my own play with my immediate grandchildren. Did you see what you said? Did you smell what you spouted? Here then might be poetry! :- Doug.
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Wakeners to edit
That took some time to mine what was there, to find more poems and wakeners, to edit and make stronger more faithful what I had written. :- Doug.
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A poem calls to attend
I think I will lean more to speaking of writing poems, or even poems writing me, rather than poetry. Poetry is a general category: a poem calls me to attend. :- Doug.
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Poems in bed!
It was a busy morning today: writing poems in bed! :- Doug.
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with, find
With grandchildren, find poems! :- Doug.
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What you said
What you said Hear Run it through again :- Doug.
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Conflict does not
Conflict does not necessitate combat. :- Doug.
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