fingers on different keys
type with fingers on different keys
read with eyes for random “words”
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2020
porpoise hollers
creativity has a pragmatic purpose
imagination plays without rains
porpoises jump about making hoops and hollers
:- Doug.
Playfully skippingly slowly
Slowly savoringly lostly
Dreamily slowly flowingly
Playfully skippingly slowly
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1975–Taking my time
Footprints in the Windsm # 1975
Have been taking my time and feeling guilty for it, like I should get moving. Yet slowness is for savoring this life.
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Definitions for ancestors?
Definitions seek to capture the essence of a word. To be succinct. Which is to say, be easy to remember, easy to test. For ancestors does this well trod path cover the territory, what these ancestors did, and more importantly what they still do, today, for us?
:- Doug.
A poet might see:
A poet might see: longer, funnier, sillier, serious-er, missed things, missing things, a way to go missing, inside another, inside the poet, inside out, backwards, unknowns, more, less, blindly, sounds, colors, fragrances, feelings, hot, cold, wet, emotions, uplift, downdraft, playful, old, young, unborn, ancestor-y, you, unseen poems, profound contraries, imaginary beings, imaginary non-beings, a rainbow stream in the air filled with rainbow trout, someone who has died, someone who has not yet died, a dream, a lake, a woods, a hole, a cloud, a circle, a life, the poet’s life, a client’s life, something beautiful, something struggling, something growing, something ugly, someone oppressed, someone hurting, someone helping, someone lost, someone the poet can help, someone the poet ought not help,
:- Doug.
