Category Archives: Poetry
brings understanding
Imagination brings understanding. :- Doug.
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cinnamoned apple
Poetry stuffed with cinnamoned apple a slice of cheddar on the side :- Doug.
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Wings on hippopotami
Lawyer for a moment imagine wings on hippopotami :- Doug.
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My second language poetry
My second language is poetry No, my first :- Doug.
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A water we cannot see across
A water we cannot see across Of this we stand in need A brink we must visit and visit :- Doug.
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Wafting up the flue
So much grey so little silver snow and deep up on the roof but fire in the hearth? Dare we inquire after morsels? Old we have aplenty elders but few Shh who might some of us barely notice wafting up … Continue reading
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Arrow on a rusting sign
A poem once written is an unreliable arrow on a sign rusting telling which way you went but not the valuable stuff :- Doug.
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A Google lawyer
Are you Google knowing without knowing Are you a Google lawyer knowing answers and hows lively and responsive without touching All those years lived without living All those lives you have strummed without having the chords reverberate to your spine … Continue reading
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Condor from out of nowhere
But you have a much larger gift you can give, or at least offer. However it will cost you. It will be a condor from out of nowhere sinking its talons into you, carrying you away, over the abyss. You … Continue reading
Fog in the valley, nothing more
You have the gift of having seen this long-term care thing in many guises and appearances. You can see long view over their case, over their needs, and the outlines of where this will come out the other side. You … Continue reading
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Brilliant white tops
Last October, I was in the observation car of The Capitol Limited train, as it came around the mountain. There, for the space of few ticks of the clock, I was witness. The early sun just caught the tops of … Continue reading
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making living
Poetry is not about the making of it but the living of it :- Doug.
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29 things
Make a list of 29 things and events from yesterday, just to limber up your writing exploring side. :- Doug.
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Talk in poetry
I will not talk about poetry I will talk in poetry :- Doug.
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