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:
overspilling, death, heaven, life, mother,
Form: Free verse
Song of Joy
...It’s so difficult, too ungraspable,
poetry can only mimic with deaf words.
The beginning:
our turning earth gently rises
from the rim of the unseen.
Notes and tones spellbind
with intim...
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Categories:
overspilling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Poet's Burden
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I wish I could clamp down a lid on my thoughts
And stop them from overspilling
It'd be better than tying my mind in knots
Over worries not so thrilling
I wish I could stop my mind from fa...
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Categories:
overspilling, night, poetess, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Dua
...Dua
You know my needs, wants, and desires way better than I could possibly articulate. Yet, I feel like being expressive on this platform, for the sake of the audience.
Please remove the veil be...
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Categories:
overspilling, age, best friend, black
Form: Free verse
Build Myself a Crown
...Hammer high, hammer high
Dreams of love or war
Replicate and manipulate.
Metal. Metal.
Manufacture, mould, make do and mend
Build myself a crown.
Fracture and rot
Show me your broken bones....
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Categories:
overspilling, art, conflict, metaphor, war,
Form: Free verse
A Crippled Holiday
...Holidays shape the overspilling
bounds of aromas. Hidden possessions
dismissed away, packed in a wardrobe
banished to an unforgiven loneliness.
A protested chaos snapped
unpleasant whispering,
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Categories:
overspilling, family, history, holiday, loneliness,
Form: Free verse