Category Archives: Poetry
Only play
The only way we’ll get there is if we play. :- Doug.
Feet jiggle
My job as poet is to infect you with my imaginings so your feet jiggle. :- Doug.
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
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.
Poetry teaches
Poetry teaches What have you to learn? Observation? Patience? Play? Exploration? What? :- Doug.
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
Expanding play
Making playful poetry expands imagination beyond simply seeing what we can see expanding us :- Doug.
Playfully now human
Playful poetry expands our very nature no longer who I was a moment ago now human :- Doug.
Taking care taking care
Poetry is taking care with words taking care of life. :- Doug.
Invite poems to visit?
What are ways to invite poems to visit you? :- Doug.
A poem for 300
Write a poem to be read by elders in 300 years. :- Doug.
Seeds will sprout
Seeds will sprout as they will or not :- Doug.
A why to write poetry
Maybe you don’t need a reason A why to write poetry Poetry may be why enough :- Doug.
Curiosity working on you
Poetry is curiosity working on you. :- Doug.