Lao Tzu: English Translations III
...LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS III
The Valley Spirit
by Lao Tzu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The valley Spirit never runs dry,
the river to whom all waters run:
the Sp...
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Categories:
meddles, earth, heaven, mother, water,
Form: Free verse
My Lady USA
...Lord knows she isn’t perfect but she’s better than the rest.
And I always find her beautiful even when she is a mess.
She has her faults and failures but I love her anyway
And I thank the good Lor...
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Categories:
meddles, pride, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Escape From Life
...What becomes of a world of war?
The world is crowded, lonely, happy and sad
Bored I am of life I am bored
Whisperings of life hint it is stressed
The strait between hope and despair
Forthwith ...
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Categories:
meddles, change, dark, how i
Form: Free verse
A Fine Kettle
...Grasping a plot
from my store of meddles
I spread,
near the sink,
verbs and nouns
I've found.
Cleaving each
to a size
then heated derive
a fragrant misty theme.
. . .to be continue...
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Categories:
meddles, art, bible, books, education,
Form: Free verse
Mind Do You Hear Me
...she meddles me mad
doing what I do not want
mind do you hear me
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Categories:
meddles, mystery,
Form: Senryu
Foolish Hearts
...You think your mind rules your thoughts when you find your lost at heart and part is feeliní societies grasp on the situationÖsit impatiently waitiní for your lips to read the scriptÖthis mystery wil...
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Categories:
meddles, confusion, heart,
Form: I do not know?
Among the Gods
...I dwell in the heavens
on moonlit beams
sun seared clouds
billowy waves
my celestial stage
no worldly worries
or cranial cares
My soul mingles
meddles
among gods
Zeus, Apollo
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Categories:
meddles, adventure, allusion, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Breathtaking
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Beleaguer me with beaten breaths as I burn long beyond this dalliance of love,
Remind me with a rush of redolent-rippled candy kisses draped across my lips--
Enchant me w...
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Categories:
meddles, angst, change, emotions, love,
Form: Acrostic
Free Cee Four Junkies On Porcelain and Tile To Defile
...PORCELAIN AND TILE TO DEFILE FOUR JUNKIES
You cannot imagine what I see
Unless you are exactly like me
Friends like yours die and that’s the rub
But many of mine have died in my bathtub
Just two ju...
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Categories:
meddles, angst, betrayal,
Form: Concrete
A Dream Bestowing a Dream
...A dream bestowing an unimaginable dream
Is far beyond my imagination
My dream cradles another form of creativity
Freedom leads me out of troublesome society
My dream bestowed another shard of...
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Categories:
meddles, adventure, allegory, dedication, faith,
Form: Free verse
Pet Rock ****
...I'm not one who judges, interferes or meddles,
but I must spay my pet rock because it won't stop having pebbles.
You may find me to be somewhat of a nut
but I truly suspect that my pet rock is a s...
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Categories:
meddles,
Form: Rhyme
Marvelous Medicos!
...The psychiatrist meddles with the head.
Nutritionists keep us decently fed.
Nurses are very clever,
As are surgeons, however,
The proctologist's probe is met with dread!
Robert L. Hins...
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Categories:
meddles, funny
Form: Limerick
Stop the World....
...I blush when I think about the makeup
Of Man. At birth he's weak and insecure
He's helpless, ignorant- a little pup
Has more going for him than this treasure.
And when he matures, mental growth i...
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Categories:
meddles, adventure
Form: Sonnet
Dross
......for Sylvia Plath
Her grasp of things is gone,
she meddles, she is lost
with no prospect of redress.
She hovers shapeless,
rudderless in a
storm-toss'd mess.
Substanceless, totterin...
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Categories:
meddles, loss
Form: Verse
Soured Milk and Rotten Apples
...I offer my apologies; if perhaps I may offend;
But I’m burdened by atrocities; that seem to never end.
The odor does precede them; as they approach my way;
It’s the smell of one who meddles;...
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Categories:
meddles, allegoryme, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
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