Long Untangles 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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ain't it a shame

when hate lynches 
a 14 year old Colored boy
in 1955 Mississippi
and blows away the dreams of
four innocent little Negro girls 
in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama

yeah 
bus that to your segregated thoughts
as I interracially...

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When the Goddess of aroma
graces my caffeinated soul, 
her milky quartz crown 
                     shines in...

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She steps, and each movement is a dance of stars across the universe,
A constellation in motion, carrying light into every corner of shadow,
On paths of tranquility, guided by a kindness that untangles the knots of...

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With the sanctity of ignorance
Flocks follow the wolf 
With truth caged 
The masses flow 
With allegiance to whims
People praise their foes

One day it will be remembered
As a turning point
Brought about by spin
A footnote of incredulity...

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The best thing you can do about a suicide is understanding it.

The boy opens the door and walks by his mom
his mom says "how was school"
He doesnt respond 
he walks silently to his room
His mom...

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The sun, going about her daily chores, 
glimpses a new star in the sky, 
one smaller than herself, 
yet strangely familiar.

Used to catching her image first in puddles, 
then growing larger in lakes, 
she at...

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Blackberry Memoir 

Blackberries, round and glossy,
Always invite me to return
To dusty country summer afternoons
When languid waves of mirages
Puddle into shimmering hiatus.

From the gently swaying hammock
I hear the rattle of berry pails
To see my grandmother, in...

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When night falls and stumbles into slumber
                            reshuffles...

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I am a nature addict
and I see people laugh at it...
 
When I ponder about the future,
or gotta handle the torture,
I look deep into nature
and she is my wound's suture
 
When I encounter persistent failures,
and...

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the morning groans as she untangles from the covers
worn and blunt
from the night before

her eyes puffed and wrinkled, wrinkled and blink
winking with bleary sting.  mustard gas
sinking
swallowing in the hollows
choking the cities yellow
choking the grass...

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Ombre
I miss you in the most strangest of ways…like a faraway song…

like lyrics of a folklore….

….an Indian tale around a fire ring

like a dark deep forest which I have always passed by, never lingering

I miss...

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In silent drumbeats of depression
throbs a fractal life of no "visualization".
dandelions fluffing in howling winds
fight with Halloween "hallucinations".
behind the dusk of a sealed doorway lies
a vast empty space of no sun-showers...

I need a spaceship
to take...

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I Will Learn To Unlearn Loving You

I will learn to unlearn loving you
		if forgetting you will 
stop me from loving you, 

like breathing in without breathing out, 
		I'll count the days with you 
and uncount...

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The Star of David shines within,
seen by pure hearts, who're free from sin.
Feel it's glow at the heart centre,
orbiting which, love throbs enter.

Symbolised as two triangles,
love’s elixir, fear untangles.
This is our spiritual heart,
where we feel...

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Eyes untangles the twining nodes of your blouse
 Exposing nectar factories that taunt naughty minds 
As their mouths leak the righteous nudity of their oblongata 
Their hands stay restless while their nostrils sniff your underwear

...

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No human venture reign o'er nature's craft
of snuggled boughs transcend, amid a spawn
quandary mist, ... in its wake afar drawn 
out kiss, in dawn's rise, amends of soft draft
weaving loosely, threads strung in an air...

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Papers everywhere with words of deception
Casting out the times own torrent
Lifting off the eaves of secured gates
Obviously written so long ago

Fine comb--untangles our misery
Leaving money outside the door
Nothing is quite as free as usual
Now we...

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Chuck this hierarchy 
Want to scramble this all consuming
Top down conceit
From cradle to courthouse
Ambitious frog leaps fall prey
To slithering whispers
And the accountability of thieves-
Mercurial hoods tying paysheets
To what the body believes
An aching nuisance scraping the...

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