Archive for February, 2017

you are on the wrong path

If sober people understand you
you are on the wrong path

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2017 | No Comments »

empty of ego, ego, ego

“Other, other, other”
empty of ego, ego, ego
prepare to be assimilated, poet, prophet

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2017 | No Comments »

Itself the blessing

Life is good
The living of life
Itself the blessing

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2017 | No Comments »

It’s about roundness

It’s about wholeness completeness roundness fullness overflowing—our lives can indeed flow beyond our lives—in all directions, all times, beyond times….

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2017 | No Comments »

Those who are fractions

This, this is the world
Where those who are fractions Im-
agine themselves whole

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2017 | No Comments »

An elder can be a guardian

An elder can be a guardian
of our living ancestors
of our living children’s children’s children’s
of tenderness, gentle gratitude
of living

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

so young then

The picture—so young then
Life we say—as if a noun
really process—even more moving—flow

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

Life hints

Life hints
at the reality
just outside our window
why should my poem
go beyond?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

It’s none of my business

It’s none of my business
but maybe it is
you being human and all

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

Humans are immortal

Humans are the only
animal that thinks we
are immortal—or ought to be

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

How can grasping ever open?

How can grasping
ever open a world
when it closes our eyes?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Based on debt?

Is relationship based on debt?
Or something infinite?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Dangles

Love dangles.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Uncertain period

Life is an uncertain period.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

To live inside another’s griefs and pain

We live in symbols
in imagination
able to fly to stars and atoms
to live inside another’s griefs and pain
unbound by time, our own symbol

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Anything can be

Anything can be a symbol.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

Expand. Extend

Expand. Extend.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

See, touch, go

See, touch, go.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

Beyond and within

What I like about that piece is it is concrete and also evocative of something expanding. Expanding beyond my ken and still within my embrace.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

From oink to oink

Eldering is not about stuffing more things into the sausage: it is about seeing ourselves and the grinder and the whole sausage coiling and the entire process from oink to oink, from generation to generation, from stardust to stardust.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

The wideness of winning

Do you really believe only one can win?
competition-think is failing
to imagine the wideness of winning

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2017 | No Comments »

Dittyer

I’m a dittyer.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2017 | No Comments »

All fear is of death

All fear is of death
at heart, we want to matter
life means…death matters

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2017 | No Comments »
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