Lao Tzu: English Translations II
...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...
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Categories:
overfilling, death, heaven, life, mother,
Form: Free verse
For Them
...Do I feel you?
Peaceful,
Like drowning in cloud,
Absorbing my screams until I can scream no longer.
Do I hear you?
Hope,
Speaking out to me every day,
Telling me to breathe, telling me to ho...
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Categories:
overfilling, 8th grade, appreciation, friendship,
Form: Free verse
But not that way
...People say overcoming is easy,
just try to distance yourself and don't let the water from the cup running,
but it splashed miliseconds,
he held it with his both hands,
but his face was overfi...
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Categories:
overfilling, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Rain Forest Zone
...Where the zone reigns,
It often rains:
Soaked clouds permitted reins
That light up smiles of grains
On highlands and plains,
Overfilling drains:
Here no friendship feigns,
Skilled Planters for...
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Categories:
overfilling, blessing, business, change, food,
Form: Rhyme
Flower Bed
...In the morning dew~
I found you~
Awakened by touch~
Your softness was such~
I gasp in delicacies~
Unsure tensions flee~
Beauty enraptured~
As scents were captured~
Breathing you in~
I sa...
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Categories:
overfilling, passion,
Form: Romanticism
Homesick, Homesick
...Tears streamed down my face last night. All those things in pain
It was so overfilling with feelings of vain
My mind filled with stress
I can't concentrate no more but guess
It was a mess in my m...
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Categories:
overfilling, feelings, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Night Angel - Collaborating Sonnets With Lin Lane
...In deep slumber madness, she comforts me
Appearing, unencumbered, from the mist
Subconscious suspension our nightly tryst
Erasing my mind of bad memories
She mends and warms my soul so tenderly
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Categories:
overfilling, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Night Angel: a Collaboration With Daniel Turner
...This is presented in a series of three sonnets in a collaboration
between Daniel Turner and Lin Lane.
They are based on the original sonnet of Daniel's "Night Angel."
Thank you, Danny, for...
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Categories:
overfilling, angel, hope,
Form: Sonnet
How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways
...How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the l...
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Categories:
overfilling, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
Captive
...Drip, drip, drip, The t.v. screen goes blip,
the fan goes still, on the window sill,
the light switch's starts to flip,
Blink, blink, blink, chains start to clink,
strange light appears, to h...
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Categories:
overfilling, fantasy, fear, science fiction,
Form: I do not know?
Rose That On Trellis Grows
...Ya'll remember Rose that on trellis grows
How lovely, her pale pink blossoms in spring
She now has a few dead stems that show
Also some rapid growth, frame overfilling
She needed to be pruned there ...
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Categories:
overfilling, inspirational, introspection, life, rose,
Form: Sonnet
Lavender and Lace
...I awaken to the woodland scent
of a favored fragrant herb.
Its aroma transcends nocturnal bliss
and then softly seeks so gently to kiss
the distant lingerings in my mind.
Of a cherished pla...
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Categories:
overfilling, introspection, love, nature, passion,
Form: Rhyme