Category Archives: Eldering

Playfully skippingly slowly

Slowly savoringly lostly Dreamily slowly flowingly Playfully skippingly slowly :- Doug.

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Definitions for ancestors?

Definitions seek to capture the essence of a word. To be succinct. Which is to say, be easy to remember, easy to test. For ancestors does this well trod path cover the territory, what these ancestors did, and more importantly … Continue reading

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A poet might see:

A poet might see: longer, funnier, sillier, serious-er, missed things, missing things, a way to go missing, inside another, inside the poet, inside out, backwards, unknowns, more, less, blindly, sounds, colors, fragrances, feelings, hot, cold, wet, emotions, uplift, downdraft, playful, … Continue reading

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Remake the poet?

How might our poetry be? How might our poetry remake the poet? :- Doug.

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Again fascinating

To yourself you can again become fascinating. :- Doug.

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Disembark this train

Before you disembark this train you’d ought to see what you can see. :- Doug.

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Personal Hugging Equipment!

Let’s invent Personal Hugging Equipment! :- Doug.

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Tableau of fog and valley

But life goes on and so our train moved on I knew that tableau of fog and valley and beauty will never repeat nor will its lessons yet it is important at that instant out that window I was looking … Continue reading

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Visit many

Visit many and varied places in your life, watch mental movies of things barely remembered, see: your long musings matter.

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Through this catastrophe

Old ones ought to be explorers Why? Because we are less attached to raising family, making a name because we’d be good at exploring Old lawyers ought to be poets Because we’d be good at it less attached seeing wider … Continue reading

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Poetry signifies

Poetry signifies moving back a step or two from our normal, rational, analytical world. Poetry signifies a larger, longer, wider, more profound view. Poetry signifies slowing the mind to think more. Poetry signifies attention. Poetry signifies taking in, assimilating, being … Continue reading

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A train through the skies

Play more. Write images. Carry yourself along to larger, a train through the skies. Ghosts of you past and future. :- Doug.

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Of your life?

Of your life, what is the work? :- Doug.

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Write more

Write more. For writing is thinking. Writing is conversing. :- Doug.

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New under sun

Yes there is something new under the sun. You. :- Doug.

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Needle skips a groove

Poetry is a test run in new ways to think the needle skips a groove you hear the juxtaposition you start to sing a new song :- Doug.

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Know which to shake

Our role is to shake up and we know which things :- Doug.

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