Category Archives: Poetry
For sale: threadbare mourning shawl
For sale: baby shoes never worn. Threadbare mourning shawl. 101 stories told into 11 sets of grandchildren’s eyes. :- Doug.
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Wonderables
Numbers are about quantities things to compare Poetry is about qualities ponderables wonderables :- Doug.
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a little more east
We can touch the arc so it comes closer or farther a little more east a little more west :- Doug.
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Catch your insights flying
Circumspice! You are in the middle Of life You have practical wisdom Pause and ponder Catch your insights flying Share your guesses :- Doug.
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especially if you let it go by
Everything you do affects the quality of humanity especially if you let it go by :- Doug.
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approaching snowflake
However imperceptibly each approaching snowflake pulls up the earth, to meet :- Doug.
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Who are to be?
Who are to be the beneficiaries of your stories your life? :- Doug.
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That smile
That smile in an Indianapolis food court twenty or more years ago yet warms and startles she happy feeding him he herky-jerky in a tall electric wheelchair thanking loving enlivening with his eyes smiling :- Doug.
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Day of chance meeting
My to do list keeps me going helps me distinguish my morning wakings so my culture says Yet culture is the commons we all create mostly unconsciously acquiescing Might I become more alive in this day of chance meeting? :- … Continue reading
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Use organic
Use organic words, phrases, and metaphors Be subtle while you surprise The grandchildren :- Doug.
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Touch the cord
Touch the cord far along as you can keep it taut so they’ll know you are here :- Doug.
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Primordial beat
We share online because we want to be connected to others —heard by them seen by them known a primordial beat :- Doug.
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Sometimes a rhyme’s
sometimes a rhyme’s the thing to help our poetry and thinking sing :- Doug.
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Uplifting snow
It’s a light and pretty snow an uplifting moment :- Doug.
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Poetry breaks through
Thinking comes before thought Then thoughts stop our thinking Poetry is a way for thinking to break through :- Doug.
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Law art form
Law practice can be our art form Mine often expresses as poetry :- Doug.
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