Category Archives: Poetry

Became part of them

Posted on July 13, 2020 by dgermann

The stories and sayings became part of them that’s the way to travel 300 years :- Doug.

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Ask a never-before

Posted on July 12, 2020 by dgermann

Impossible it probably is To say something new But to ask a never-before Asked question —Ahh! :- Doug.

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Dying is helping

Posted on July 12, 2020 by dgermann

Dying is an individual work some people keep on helping to the end that attracts me What work for me but writing and reflecting and conversing :- Doug.

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Think of a favorite client, one with whom you really relate: first find the most deeply human part of your client, that part with which you connect. Then radiate that connection outward: what do you like, what draws you? Sometimes … Continue reading →

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Choices: privilege

Posted on July 10, 2020 by dgermann

Choices: Our task in life is to make choices, to choose to be, to live, to stand, to stand forth; and yet choose to do this, to act, to love. Each and all: these are the most difficult things. And … Continue reading →

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Persist to wrestle

Posted on July 10, 2020 by dgermann

To persist is sometimes to live if only I may wrestle :- Doug.

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This pond of many fishes

Posted on July 9, 2020 by dgermann

Grateful am I for This pond of many fishes This stream to walk beside and jump across This forest so vast in 20 years I have not explored it all And for the endless stream of people to love of … Continue reading →

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ancestors is

Posted on July 8, 2020 by dgermann

ancestors is flowing :- Doug.

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When a story starts

Posted on July 8, 2020 by dgermann

A story is not written—is not told—does not happen—once for all time. A story starts when breath becomes air :- Doug.

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Getting Growing Natural

Posted on July 7, 2020 by dgermann

Getting old Growing sick Natural :- Doug.

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say, Later

Posted on July 7, 2020 by dgermann

We don’t say I’m not going to die We ever say, Later :- Doug.

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Wandering our higher

Posted on July 5, 2020 by dgermann

Wondering and wandering this is our higher as lawyers as poets :- Doug.

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no assurance my lungs

Posted on July 5, 2020 by dgermann

I die a thousand times a day every letting out my breath there is no support no assurance my lungs will take another when they do I ought rejoice but do not because I mistakenly expect another lilacs turning brown … Continue reading →

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Not so much to live

Posted on July 4, 2020 by dgermann

Life’s purpose is not so much to live it as to love it. :- Doug.

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The communion stands

Posted on July 3, 2020 by dgermann

The communion only stands a chance if at least one of us moves toward our together. :- Doug.

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Penetrate me

Posted on July 2, 2020 by dgermann

Once I resolved to hear a larger world to let it penetrate me change me. This is to share some wonders. :- Doug.

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Open our nostrils?

Posted on July 2, 2020 by dgermann

We are a forward-looking generation our eye on future possibles and aspirations seldom feeling the ground beneath our feet those ancestors and shunning to hear around us those others and species and formations making up our habitat and symphonia. What … Continue reading →

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