Category Archives: Eldering

To make poetry is to make imagination To make stumble stones out of speaking out to a powerful person To imagine what a moral life might be To imagine grasping another’s beating heart from out their breast To spark your … Continue reading →

Poetry’s our playful exploring, to see what we can see, what larger we can become, what larger service we can be. How do we outlast ourselves? :- Doug.

Poetry teaches What have you to learn? Observation? Patience? Play? Exploration? What? :- Doug.

Here’s a place to record profundities or to coax them into light or to give them birth, bloody and howling Here’s a place to actually think and to put on hold certain ways of thinking there’s a science deeper there’s … Continue reading →

Making playful poetry expands imagination beyond simply seeing what we can see expanding us :- Doug.

Playful poetry expands our very nature no longer who I was a moment ago now human :- Doug.

Write a poem to be read by elders in 300 years. :- Doug.

Seeds will sprout as they will or not :- Doug.

All-hearing all-seeing drone up in the sky Re-examine events yes but also the poet For the wizened bird here’s poetry’s role :- Doug.