Category Archives: Poetry

From this thing called life I will not recover Might enjoy yet :- Doug.

Make work for the unknowable future moment. You will know and you will never know :- Doug.

You may not bend the curve much But you can leave gifts of Small sublime works :- Doug.

Avoid saying all leave room we imagine too :- Doug.

The poetry to which I aspire is not a big thing, but imperceptible. :- Doug.

The purpose of poetry to say something bigger than the words :- Doug.

You will be unknown Your effects will be imperceptible Even so work the generations :- Doug.

So the work of poetry is, by its roots, making, composing, creating, placing together, and in that sense, forming, shaping, as the poet shapes words and works them. So we are working the generations. :- Doug.

We are forming people, working them, molding, shaping. Not as a big potter, but as an flow of water inside, working slowly, kindly, softly, imperceptibly. imperceptible the work of ancestors how could we have a grand design? :- Doug.

I need to trust you to take my story small into yours :- Doug.