Category Archives: Eldering

The poet’s image shakes us to invent anew while conversing with the poet :- Doug.

You can always think of something else to say Don’t :- Doug.

Go beyond words through feelings, such as lostness, quandary, strength, to what is on the other side: to what first demanded to be said, to the startlingly strange. :- Doug.

The work is finding our dreams. In reverie, exploring, expanding, growing, re-shaping them. Opening. Does opening a dream open the dreamer? Oh, to be a child again, dreaming the clouds floating overhead of a summer’s day! We can! We can! … Continue reading →

Image, unanchored, floats Metaphor grounds us :- Doug.

I am discovering (inventing?) that not only characters and plot need antagonism, pressure, dilemma, and sub-text, but so do metaphors. This gives them life and reality: we see ourselves and our wrestling with our ways. What is the whole metaphor? … Continue reading →

Circular the universe of roots of trees their branches of cumulus clouds of flocks of clouds and birds of shapes of planets and their orbits the reach of my thinking and probably yours the gathering of our peoples and our … Continue reading →

people only Hear what they are prepared to Taste :- Doug.

Stories and poems live in metaphor as metaphor :- Doug.

When you use a metaphor in your story or poem, ask, What kind of X is that? Go two or three steps: your metaphor can grow more true to what you meant, more concrete. :- Doug.