Author Archives: dgermann
Pulls against a weight
My body pulls against a weight your muscles feel resistance conversing across centuries :- Doug.
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Imagine falling in love
The measure of the quality of humanity is whether we can imagine falling in love with it. :- Doug.
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Metaphors in verb forms
We’d ought to create metaphors in verb forms. If we are to bring our poetry and art alive, it needs to move, make, separate, join, destroy, stroke, punch, prohibit. :- Doug.
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Many years are given
To whom many years are given, from them much is expected. :- Doug.
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Greater age greater responsibility
With greater age comes greater responsibility. Responsibility to a larger group, perhaps to humanity itself, to creation itself. :- Doug.
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Pull you up out of bed
These younguns can crack the books and crack the codes, but you? There are bigger issues, long-term issues. These issues are your summit, to where you have been climbing. Did you really climb all this way to slide down the … Continue reading
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Poem as pruning shears
A poem is a pruning shears…to turn on yourself. You start getting bushy, scruffy. Then again it might be a garden hose to water some parts of you which have become dried up. :- Doug.
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Surprise way to learn
The surprise is a way to learning. :- Doug.
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Poem upside down
Sometimes you just have to turn the poem upside down, shake, and see what comes out. :- Doug.
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Whisper if at all
I believe one of the highest goods is telling your story to the 300-year grandchild elders. My message might only be heard as a whisper if at all, but it is worth the effort. :- Doug.
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My body whole?
Constantly ask, do my writing fingers proceed from my head, my eyes, or my body whole? :- Doug.
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Right direction each step
Your Why and your Who does not have to stay the same all through. It will help decide what to do week to week, and help see when you are turning and know it is the right direction for you … Continue reading
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Belongs to the group
What you hear What you say Now belongs to the group :- Doug.
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Pulling something out
I am not an expert on story. I am a facilitator: I have been given a secret or two for pulling something out of people I did not put in. :- Doug.
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What story? Why? Who?
What story do you really want to tell? Why do you want to tell that one? Let’s meditate on it, pray on it. Who needs to hear it? Why? :- Doug.
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Promise me you will vote?
Will you promise me you will vote? :- Doug.
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Resist our years?
Why do we resist our years when their accumulation is what we have been striving toward? :- Doug.
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