Category Archives: Poetry

Only play

The only way we’ll get there is if we play. :- Doug.

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Feet jiggle

My job as poet is to infect you with my imaginings so your feet jiggle. :- Doug.

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Can be play

Making poetry can be play. :- Doug.

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Make imagination

To make poetry is to make imagination To make stumble stones out of speaking out to a powerful person To imagine what a moral life might be To imagine grasping another’s beating heart from out their breast To spark your … Continue reading

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Poetry processes

Poetry processes :- Doug.

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Outlast ourselves?

Poetry’s our playful exploring, to see what we can see, what larger we can become, what larger service we can be. How do we outlast ourselves? :- Doug.

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Poetry teaches

Poetry teaches What have you to learn? Observation? Patience? Play? Exploration? What? :- Doug.

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Here’s a place

Here’s a place to record profundities or to coax them into light or to give them birth, bloody and howling Here’s a place to actually think and to put on hold certain ways of thinking there’s a science deeper there’s … Continue reading

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Expanding play

Making playful poetry expands imagination beyond simply seeing what we can see expanding us :- Doug.

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Playfully now human

Playful poetry expands our very nature no longer who I was a moment ago now human :- Doug.

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Taking care taking care

Poetry is taking care with words taking care of life. :- Doug.

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Invite poems to visit?

What are ways to invite poems to visit you? :- Doug.

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A poem for 300

Write a poem to be read by elders in 300 years. :- Doug.

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Seeds will sprout

Seeds will sprout as they will or not :- Doug.

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A why to write poetry

Maybe you don’t need a reason A why to write poetry Poetry may be why enough :- Doug.

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Curiosity working on you

Poetry is curiosity working on you. :- Doug.

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Curiosity pen

Curiosity is our pen :- Doug.

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