Category Archives: Eldering

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

To whom might you offer your work, as unto a father or mother of your craft of millennia ago? :- Doug.

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 →

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The work of the teller and the poet is to start us on our journey, not to describe the inn. :- Doug.

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

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

of rocks and cloud what is their conversation? :- Doug.