Best Starves Poems

you can smile in the midst of pain
are you braver than me
you can choose contentment over happiness
are you braver than me
are you more humane than me
you can feed me my own egotistical tendencies
are you braver than me
are you more humane than me
are you even more...

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My delicious feast
Appetizer, entrée, dessert
A bony child starves...

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Ego starves, if we be quiet 
Slowing down flow of thought
Put attachments on a diet
Soul thus becomes self-taught

Hush the blush and be still
Voids within then soon fill
For smooth ascent uphill

Our fear halves
Ego starves...

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Raggle Taggle gypsy boy
born somewhere different
in the countryside, though
not far from a big city.

Hanzi, at the age of eight
he used to live as a gypsy boy,
going from here to there 
and everywhere.
He has never had the chance 
to go to school, but he loved to...

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