Category Archives: Poetry

Let’s not go back

Let’s not go back to business as usual Let’s go better to serving life and living :- Doug.

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Pandemic turn

Could this pandemic Turn us to one another Maybe we’ll find our purpose is each other? :- Doug.

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Pandemic interruption

Is this pandemic an interruption Or is it our generation’s main path? :- Doug.

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Because you see this other

You are because another sees you You are because another hears you Whom do you see and hear in 300 years? :- Doug.

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Deepeners

One man had a heart attack Both my parents died the same night What were your deepeners? :- Doug.

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Withdraw your last three thousand

Withdraw your last three thousand To spend on something very very kind Your old ones have a seed within Your young ones have so seldom heard Water the seed with far-sight Place stories in the young ones’ ears— Upon the … Continue reading

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You thought you were the one

In all your years you thought you were the one From here it’s otherwise: one life, just life :- Doug.

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A haunting song

Choose a haunting song, borrow its point of view, and its beat or rhyme for your story. :- Doug.

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Joy to get a call

What a joy to get a call To be touched by another soul! :- Doug.

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Craft is strength

The craft of storytelling The strength of storytelling :- Doug.

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Can you see?

Can you see? Can you see them? You can If you look far enough Over the horizon :- Doug.

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That’s what poets do

That’s what poets do take us to deeps take us to longer :- Doug.

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OK Boomers

OK Boomers Let’s attend Where we find ourselves :- Doug.

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slings and arrows

Take note of the slings and arrows of daily fortune :- Doug.

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I have not died

I have not died But I can Learn it now :- Doug.

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A village of voices

A village of voices walks with me my path was only straight before my first steps bruises and defeats become callouses and badges peel away layers of humanity plant them in insignificance :- Doug.

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Works of dying:

Works of dying: Missing Wrestling Angel Not being Remembering, putting together, meaning, making sense Lessons and messages What is human Becoming ancestor Testifying, truth telling Stepping down Being gathered Whole, completions Resituating :- Doug.

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