Category Archives: Poetry
Count verbs and nouns
Count your story’s verbs and nouns one set looks ahead one is dying :- Doug.
pushes us outside
Storytelling pushes us outside of today :- Doug.
Story has a longer touch
Story has a longer touch than do we garden Gilgamesh Odysseus :- Doug.
In a plaited world
In a plaited world all causes inter-weave no story changes humanity the fabric our species weaves requires every thread :- Doug.
I try not to have goals
I try to not have goals to move beyond outcomes —short sight— to with for the sake of with :- Doug.
Beyond messages
Together this we can do beyond messages beyond outcomes communing :- Doug.
Setting out to serve
Setting out to serve humanity’s grandchildren we know not what and whom we will meet :- Doug.
know, finally know
How will we go if we know, finally know we’ll never arrive? :- Doug.
will not know when
In this work we will not know when we have arrived for when are we human? :- Doug.
Make believe
Make believe for something like it will be :- Doug.
Hung up on results
Don’t get hung up on results Care mightily about reaching across :- Doug.
at the speed of clouds
at the speed of clouds unnoticed we move we morph :- Doug.
Not our hope
It’s not our hope just where we work :- Doug.
discovering bread
Finding poems discovering bread :- Doug.
centuries off
The destinations centuries off nor do we know :- Doug.
we imagine we steer
Given a paddle as we embark we imagine we steer and empower yet :- Doug.