Short Lao Poems

do you love big cats?
Lao shi lao hu that is me!
with warmest wishes...

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The road is never ending rectangle
Each of us roll out its own path

"A Journey of a thousand miles
begins with one step" Lao Tzu...

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Lao-tzu riding
a bull but it
wasn't

bucking around
it actually
looked

like it
might
want

to graze
and so
he says

life is
how 
you

ride 
it
out...

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Once Plato and Lao-Tzu had their own blog

Since their philosophies thought mighty strong

Expected people much to read

With wisdom themselves to feed

But readers chose instead opinion's fog!




© Demetrios Trifiatis
    03 FEBRUARY 2015...

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Great men and small men,
what does it matter?
We all fry in the very same batter.
Moral ambiguity 
is not a hot flame
but if we don't 
pay attention
it cooks just the same.
Running a country,
living a life,
Lao Tzu said,
"Keep it simple!",
avoid all strife....

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the urge
the want
the need
to purge

the dam
is filling
soon too
full

then what
for to do
simply
nothing

the Talking
Heads once
sang lyrically
of flowing water

Lao Tzu
mentioned
it too that we
should be like

water Toaistically
feeling the free
flow of either going
around or overflowing

the 
dam
dammit
dam...

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Vo Amour Adelle (Parents love Grandma)
Mother, teacher, sister, reserved
Daughter of  Virgencita and Oscar (their initials are in my name)
Lover of Arvin, books, and adventure
Who feels happy, love, and pain
Who fears blood, snake, and bitterness
Who would like to see snow, safari, and Disneyland
Resident of Benoni, Mahinog, Camiguin
Lao...

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Home is where the heart is
Two eyes looking back at me 
In your presence and embrace 
The safest place I’ve ever been
The place I’d like to stay
Constant laughter
Complete vulnerability of just being, me
I think this is perfectly how it should be
We fit
And I can’t help but feel
Like this is home
And everywhere I’ve never been 
You feel like home
The home I’ve built within 
The home I’ve placed my love in...

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        Jasmine Tea and Poignancy


San Francisco and your soul's appeal.
Sitting in that Japanese Tea Garden.
You, whispering the readings of Lao Tzu.
Surrounded by the afternoon fog embracing 
us,so!
Swans swirled, serenely.
Enchanting, endless, eucalyptus leaves,oh!
We drank heavenly,hot jasmine tea.
And quietly wept over the child we lost.
To the prism of eternity.
Fog and tears mixed silently.



       December 22, 2019...

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We meet on the road
But once and I cannot tell you 
In the time we have:

   "We are one." 

   "What's left, what survived, what remains
   Of old dreams, old wars, old loves." 

We share atomic lives:
Small, brief, unpredictable orbits,
Curious flurries of motion and smiles. 

Who you become after I go,
I can only guess 

Except by the photos
Of occasional touring strangers 

In which I watch you grow, 
While you remember an eye,
A camera, a wave goodbye....

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