Category Archives: Poetry
Intentionally invisible poem
An intentionally invisible poem is harder to ignore. :- Doug.
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When a poem resists
When a poem resists I will make it sit Till one of us gets over it :- Doug.
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Write! Your responsibility
Write! It’s your responsibility To ancestors :- Doug.
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No right to withhold
I have no right to withhold my poetry from whatever grandchildren there might be :- Doug.
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Weight of a smile
No production, please. Let the world turn without you today. Bending the arc perhaps, or just adding the weight of a smile to it. :- Doug.
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Trees turned over and dipped
Outside my window: beauty. All the tree, right down to the smallest twiglet, encased in clear silver. All the trees turned over and dipped in liquid instantly drying to crystal, then planted back but maybe not where they were. A … Continue reading
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I do not have the way
I do not have the way nor can there be invite face stir :- Doug.
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I turn my face
To the generations I turn my face a flower :- Doug.
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Who erected the frontier?
Who erected the frontier between the generations but we constructors of time? Can this stream by them be forded? bridged? skirted? :- Doug.
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You get lost in the forest
You get lost in the forest only because you don’t want to be there :- Doug.
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See an entrance
I see an entrance to the forest many possibilities invite :- Doug.
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Fresh is the snow
I love, I love fresh is the snow—the wind quickens my step—& breath :- Doug.
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seedling prayer & bit of food
Plant a tree under whose shade three or four generations may sit enjoy perhaps refresh Say a prayer under whose light seven or eight generations may feel invited softened opened Feed a stranger something for stomach for wondering and wandering … Continue reading
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A chorus answers
If a chorus we are, it may be a chorus who answers. :- Doug.
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Must stand out?
Give up, writer, the conceit that your voice among the ancestors must stand out. This is important: chorus. :- Doug.
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Wander a bit
Begin in wonder Wander a bit As you go :- Doug.
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