Long Dead in the water Poems

LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I

Be Like Water
by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch

The highest virtue resembles water
because water unselfishly benefits all life,
then settles, without contention or needless strife,
in lowly cisterns.

Weep for the Dead
by Lao...

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They were young then, now they would be old men looking across an empty beach, the sun at their back; for many this would be their last day to grow old; dead in the water;...

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Cast Away And Close

Cast away on an island surrounded by seas far apart from
            my soul mate and lover I am now viciously dependent...

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Head hunting shrinking cutting down the ego’s totems                           ...

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Ladies and gentlemen, pardon my intrusion.
I won’t take long, I’m only here to Break the ice and test the waters.
Make you laugh a little Before this script starts feeling stale like Blood without water.
But it...

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I was flabbergasted when given the chance
To join the renowned Roscoe's Oddity Of Circus
With no actual talent to speak of
I was pretty much dead in the water worthless

But Roscoe in all of his wisdom
Put me...

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To be or not to be that is here the question of ambivalence

	Or is it the answer posed as a dire request

Socrates might have a shot and I don’t mean the soccer player

	Although goal line...

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I get tired of their dead muddying up my clean fresh waters for sure.
I drag these bodies back to them day and night, hoping for a cure.
Oh, sorry, they apologize, as if they did not...

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go to dine
start with a little wine
present her your own natural self

Compliments are a sure way to keep off the shelf
never speak of money or your personal wealth
stay focused and see ways to relate

order food...

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All the animals are annilated,
Brown bears burnt,
Cozy cats crunched,
Dirty dogs dumbed on the ground,
Easy flying eagles gone with the greatest of ease,
Flying fish have been fried,
Giant gators all gone,
Humans hung by their hair,
Imperial moths import...

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coming in like a tidal wave over the knoll
they do not ask if the time is right to tear up your life into
miniscule pieces
(broken like a pane of glass slamming down on cement, having fallen...

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Having tasted substance abuse,
today in truth,
many of the young
are wasted in their youth.
But 'God damn' only the pusher
you didn't oughta
as, without the doer,
the dealer, he'd be dead in the water.
One and the same, they're both...

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If I was not my self
And you were someone else
I'd say so much to you
And I'd tell you the truth
Of as to whom I am
And as to who I want to be
I'm dead in the...

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Don't know if any man,
flawed and sorry as we can only be.
Can meet the expectations of a woman,
who can truly see.
That word love,
the ultimate mystery,
must be the salvation and the key.
If both hearts aren't receptive,
and...

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