Category Archives: Poetry

True growth is in mutating standard cute baby becomes engineer who makes, tyrant who imprisons :- Doug.

Magnify and morph Throw us off the cliff Teller, we need you! :- Doug.

Now I flow Now I radiate A teller’s two joys :- Doug.

Make it large and demanding Magnify worlds O Poet! :- Doug.

Withhold precision fuzzy frees imagination to get active setting the peoples on a journey :- Doug.

Not only your characters but your images and the lessons you teach all need contraries, subtexts, struggles, and dilemmas. Otherwise how can they defy like life? :- Doug.

You need to be a challenge to your reader. :- Doug.

The work of the teller and the poet is to start us on our journey, not to describe the inn. :- Doug.

Nietzsche’s long-remaining cloud am I soon lightning :- Doug.

Life must develop poet: your work! :- Doug.

of rocks and cloud what is their conversation? :- Doug.

The poet’s image shakes us to invent anew while conversing with the poet :- Doug.

You can always think of something else to say Don’t :- Doug.

Go beyond words through feelings, such as lostness, quandary, strength, to what is on the other side: to what first demanded to be said, to the startlingly strange. :- Doug.

The work is finding our dreams. In reverie, exploring, expanding, growing, re-shaping them. Opening. Does opening a dream open the dreamer? Oh, to be a child again, dreaming the clouds floating overhead of a summer’s day! We can! We can! … Continue reading →

Image, unanchored, floats Metaphor grounds us :- Doug.

I am discovering (inventing?) that not only characters and plot need antagonism, pressure, dilemma, and sub-text, but so do metaphors. This gives them life and reality: we see ourselves and our wrestling with our ways. What is the whole metaphor? … Continue reading →