Best Tai Poems

Budgie Budgie what can I say about a man named Budgie 
when it comes to writing poetry, he's as tender as can be 
but when it comes to rocking your world with his guitar,  
well watch out FANS, for he's the best musician by...

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Park of unfenced wildness
          densely packed in light infused summer
city folk beat paths of free spirited essence

park pigeons squat, survey seniors
               ...

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Oh, gentle child, how doth my heart still burn
thine absence half a decade spent in vain
to break the bonds that tie, that fett’ring chain
that holds me from embracing  thee, thyself  in turn.

Thine all enchanting smile, piercing eyes–
thy flailing arms, the limbs, with rhythmic...

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This is putting the spirit rum to good use.
Just mix it with a little pineapple juice.
Put it in a shaker with some cracked ice,
Shake it up, strain it into a glass, and it's nice.
For a extra touch, use a little garnish:
Add a pineapple spear and...

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WHEN THE TIME COMES TAI

Time is timeless as it floats gently in impermanence
pasts presents and futures blend inter-mingle wave
it’s rapture’s melodies and pastel pastures lush and
luscious rhyming contrast complementing contradiction

When you pass on you wish to travel to the sound of
‘I am the Goddess of...

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Alice is only 17 so put her studies on hold, 
Of psychology, English literature and art, 
To train for the Rio Paras, hard as she could, 
In New Milton, in Collegiate’s school pool. 

Born with a club foot, she’s had 14 operations, 
Which fused her...

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Today I practiced
tai-chi in front of a mirror
with a dozen beginners my age.
I didn't apologize
as I thought I might.
Strange
to pick out the
reflexively familiar.
Icon I,
seen from the outside.
Some of us
would have commanded
with angry eyes
if rumples were smoothed
but now we listen.
They lined up like this
in many old...

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When I did the
hug-a-tree today,
I could feel my
breathing in my fingers
as the air
in my body moved my blood.

That Norwegian professor,
when I was 25,
told me that would happen.
One body, he told me,
like a fluid-filled bag,
like a decorative icing
squeezer.

Several times today
I could feel time stop
and I could...

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Rose collector bird 
shades of pink blossom bulbuls  
Lovely crimson set

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYtZO94K_Lk)...

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Mai Tai Madness

~Oh, my friend, Gloria!~

Funny~till drinks made her totally unstable.
We nearly got killed in her car!
When on the Golden Gate Bridge,
she screamed" I left my sweater
back at the bar."

Making a U-turn in the middle of
the Golden Gate Bridge at rush hour, OMG,no less! 
Cuss words...

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      Too many Mai Tais, zany Matilda, drank!

      Whoops, she hit the sea-wall and arrested for
      being tanked!

      A big flirt was she, and the...

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Mt Tai
How do I describe lofty Mt. Tai’s grandeurs?
Straddling Qi and Lu states, its green lingers.
The most gorgeous landscape the Nature has drawn,
The dark and light sides convert into dusk and dawn.
Floating clouds cleanse the mortal mind and soul;
Birds fly home in groups along the...

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Am considerating signing up 
For a beginners class in Tai Chi but
Not sure it's for me
My old bones agree
The will is here but the bod needs a nudge...

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I wasn't long in Hong Kong,
before I saw my first tai chi,
and it gave me the strangest notion,
the exercisers, advancing all in a row,
were line dancing in slow motion.

They put their left hand in,
right hand out,
in, out, in, out,
waved them all about
and, set to soothing,...

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Bruce

A lumbering man, 
audibly achily, stepped to the
floor’s center.
Had there been a spotlight, he’d’a shone.

His arms unfurled.
His hips spun.
His soles, silent
as he padded here,
then twisted to place a foot there.

A phoenix swooped, festooned in fire’s colors.
A monkey stole a man’s visage, and made play there.

Time...

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