Doing Poem by Richard G Berg

Doing
Is not necessarily activity
But the necessity
For inactivity

Not movement
Towards external place
But stillness
Away from any place

Not going out
But coming back

Ploughing beneath the skin
Turning things over until
There is no over

Small talk
Shortening sense

Tall talk
Extending it
Beyond time
For all time

In between, something
To clutch

Swinging the echo
Of a wooing word

Flooding the heart
With music's blood
Dousing the absurd

Active
Inactivity


Richard G Berg
June 2026