Category Archives: Poetry

Major lawyering

Major poetry is a felt change in consciousness Major lawyering is a felt change in consciousness :- Doug.

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A tune in the wind

Not our words are we elders to generations of grandchildren more a tune in the wind needing a practiced ear and do we practice giving our ear to our ancestors? :- Doug.

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Dying is the work

Death is the mystery Dying is the work For those coming after :- Doug.

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Value of our ending?

What is the possible value of our ending? To our culture? To those who must not yet end? :- Doug.

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Do not fight my death

I do not want to fight my death nor give in to it to wrestle with it, turn, be turned :- Doug.

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Allow Meet Welcome

Allow what life might come to you of the life now meeting yours Meet what clues of this life are opened for you Welcome the dying this opening invites you to :- Doug.

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Never a poet harm

Never a poet harm Never a poet love Never a poet be Never Aiee! It’s too late! :- Doug.

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It’s real

It’s real when skill, strength, competence you start to lose :- Doug.

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Laps all the way down

How differently would you live if it were laps all the way down? :- Doug.

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Held in their laps

Maybe we’re not standing on the ancestors’ shoulders rather held in their laps :- Doug.

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We will again shake hands

These days find: the tender, kind, real part of the ones you meet; open this part in yourself to yourself and them: in our human core, adjectival as we are, we turn one another in an unfinished dance. We will … Continue reading

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That old time rhythm

When you catch that old time rhythm When you hear a bit of rhyme Now’s the time for your practice of poetry :- Doug.

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Elders maintain or sustain?

Do we our elders maintain? Or sustain? Welcome them us to sustain? :- Doug.

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Turning in your hand

There is no safety Safety is a lie Told as if true Living is mystery Turning in your hand :- Doug.

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Stay healthy

Stay healthy. Keep loving. Reflect. :- Doug.

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Pandemic open us?

To what can this pandemic open us? What can we see now we didn’t before? Let’s look all the way to seeing :- Doug.

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January baby boom

Consider we will have a January baby boom Consider we make time to consider, to reflect :- Doug.

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