Category Archives: Poetry
Let the bird
Let the bird find its own perch the new might not fit the way you think receive :- Doug.
Once you know the way
Once you know the way it’s no longer the way :- Doug.
Family is frustrating to me sometimes
Family is frustrating to me sometimes And I would have no other :- Doug.
Setting the stage
Setting the stage your Will is :- Doug.
Victims have a power reserved
Victims have a power Reserved to them A power for healing For new futures A power to forgive :- Doug.
Keep the conversations going
Keep the conversations going So we will go on forever :- Doug.
Accumulating all our lives
Accumulating all our lives —family money skills— lately our task becomes releasing now with joy the larger lessons :- Doug.
to engender wholeness
Come meet with us help create wholeness :- Doug.
People can come together
People can come together think together care together, again (it does happen) you can find your way some folks will share a map :- Doug.
All is found
All All is found In one tear :- Doug.
Tears, sadness, loss
Tears, sadness, loss Tell me, oh tell me: What do they do to you? How do they bring us close To our elemental togetherness? I cajole, I plead with you What is the elusive Fundamental Joy to which they open, … Continue reading
We all want to be vulnerable
More than you’d suspect We all want to be vulnerable Just in a safe place To let our shoulders down Be our true flawed self :- Doug.
Poet practicing as lawyer
I’m a poet who practices as a lawyer. :- Doug.
Butterflies are able
Butterflies are able in thinner air we are capable of rarer conversation :- Doug.
For whom you love
For whom you love Take responsibility Child for parent Parent for child For love It’s what we do It’s who we are :- Doug.