Category Archives: Poetry
toss a pebble
toss a pebble or be tossed by future’s ripples :- Doug.
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Passes understanding
In conversation that passes understanding I will meet you :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Overarchingly important
Why is this work overarchingly important? Perhaps it is overarchingly important only to me, but then no work is overarchingly important to all or to a majority. So I tell my story, sing my song, invite whomever is willing to … Continue reading
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A home and a welcome
Give them a home and a welcome :- Doug.
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entering the stream
I’m a poet in process of entering the stream of the ancestors :- Doug.
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Can we know them?
Can we know them? Can we influence them? Can we know them enough to influence? :- Doug.
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Better grandparents
Meeting grandchildren Better grandparents :- Doug.
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Real people too
Grandchildren are real people too Wanting real intimacy Wanting to invent life :- Doug.
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Friend for generations
A friend for generations I seek to be :- Doug.
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In our songs
In our dreams in our songs grandchildren! :- Doug.
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You came and sat with me
You came and sat with me in lively conversation and then you disappeared back into that dream O I learned and so did you tho I can say nothing of what it was Let us meet and here again more … Continue reading
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pick up
This silence To be shared A place To pick up The same questions :- Doug.
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Same questions
Centuries for shared silence In here we can pick up The same questions :- Doug.
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Can we talk?
Can we talk? It will be work Is there precedent? There will be pain There may be joy There will be violent opposition It may backfire It will be lonely Won’t get what we expect It is sabotage In the … Continue reading
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By kindred surrounded
By kindred souls of many generations surrounded :- Doug.
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in silence shared
Meet the grandchildren in silence shared :- Doug.
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