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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2013

The mirror

We honor so few generations
of ancestors before us
that it limits our
imagination
of the ones coming after us

how distant the echoes we hear
limits
how long ours are heard

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Symbiosis might always be a three-party affair: agriculture is what grasses did to people to overpower trees; symbiosis is what flowers did to bees to capture human fancy: to what purpose, or is it less knowable than purpose?

:- Doug.

A better humanity
a bell we can almost almost ring
reach reach for the string

:- Doug.

We could haunt our generations. A good way to converse! Is this a fitting role for ancestors?

:- Doug.

Where O where did my past routine go?
Months and months it’s not been seen
But when I get this new vaccine,
Since I don’t want this old way back
What O what shall I do?

:- Doug.

What is the mythos human? Does the human need a place, a home?

:- Doug.

What is human but to work to glean one another?

:- Doug.

First the feeling
Now a search for cause
Only then arises an emotion

Here’s where Nietzsche’s thought that music is primal, preceding words and thought even takes me: something flows through us and out of us. Following from that is recognition, conception, search, and the building begins.

:- Doug.

Do the patriotic thing—get vaccinated against covid—and fears.

:- Doug.

We might
in this one
in front of us
the one life
detect

:- Doug.

Out from the nightmare years! The ghoul is departed!

:- Doug.

Each
the one life flowing
How?

:- Doug.

He was a disease upon our land and now that it has been excised the wound will still pain us a while and half a while.

:- Doug.

Hubris it is to think that thinking is not only able to perceive humanicity, but to correct it.

:- Doug.

Here is a daily way to receive the deeply human: Writing and immediately getting out our poems for those who need them, whether of the generations now alive, or earlier, or later.

:- Doug.

We wail on birth, making a music primal. Making a music, a poetry that plays with music, is a way to receive the deeply human.

:- Doug.

Write a poem for someone who needs it. Now.

:- Doug.

Reclaim Wednesdays, then Saturdays
Reclaim every day
For Spirit

:- Doug.

What are the pulling forces in my search to find humanicity? The tensions? Just here is the story to be sung.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2012

Who wonders
stays incomplete
out of sight frog plops

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Whom does your poem serve?

:- Doug.

Go to the conversation to find.

:- Doug.

Wondering for the grandchildren

:- Doug.