Best Sagely Poems

My translation of calligraphy by Ven. Master Chin Kung:

Face difficulty with liberality,  
Face hostility with patience, 
Steer through scrambles 
With leisurely grace and pace, 
For peace is found in temperance 
And the love of excess speech
Is the root of every calamity!

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A sagely saying before when I was
That blood is more thick than water
Once I believed it, once, just once it was
The trust I bore the desire
I counted all before me to be wiser
My flaws! I should have counted not
The pains that I bear would have...

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"This strife shall continually overflow this cup,"

To my inquisitive spirit my sagely soul told,

"Until with growing old

Comes growing up."...

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Sagely senile pipe-smoking sensuous Sal.
She was the matriarch of her coven, quite a gal.
But wait, a newcomer said. Isn’t she just an owl?
This caused a riot, many educated Wiccans yelled foul!

They chased the Newbie off, smacking her with a towel.
She was screeching and screaming with...

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