Short Tao Poems

Short Tao Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Tao by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Tao by length and keyword.


Premium Member Tao Time

Let us dance
to the matrix 
of Tao Teh Ching
with love unbounded
may we spend 
our eternities
forever grounded
always together
2 souls, 
1 entity
all Heart


Premium Member Tao

we are here
tame the mind
let love appear

bliss thunder undefined
animates our soul
now divine aligned

truth our goal
obliterating every fear
presence feels whole
Form: Other

Premium Member Sacred Mountain



            eagles encircle 
            above,huge,quiet mountains
            sweet Tao of peace




              September 10, 2020
                11:15am PST
   

Form: Haiku

Esoteric Enema

Esoteric Enema
Miser of Burden
Intrinsic Impetus
Seer of Inertia

Virulent Vestige
Alias of anonymity
Pious Pathogen
Fear of Androgyny 

Visceral Virtue
Tao of Two
Antigen of Affinity
I love you
Form:

Premium Member Evenflow

Physical death employees
Triumphant afterlife theater
   crystal wind spirits flow
   temples of awakenings
    sunset wings singing
    fields forever new of
  even counsel innocence
burgeoning light presence
     Tao Te Ching pages


Tao Te Ski

The state of flow, eternal Tao Dance in the ephemeral now A Bound mind will not allow A Joyous downward plow Soft snow, honored thou Its own meaning endow Feet atop sacred bough Snow cut by skis’ prow Let me show you how 4/5/16
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member The Great Toad

("Peyote Moon", 2018, original encaustic)

The Great Toad

At the gateless gate
I met the Great Toad
Sitting tall and wide

And in his gaze
All my needs were known
And met

And in that moment 
I passed beyond
Without a trace

(8/17/25)

Confucius Say

Confucius say, so does Tao,
So does Jesus, there is no woe,
Don't send dick picks on our phones, 
Gal bloomers don't get thrown,
Disembodied , magnets not,
Do grow up, you little grots,
Stay in touch, Confucius say,
F... off our phones today,
So does your ex-wife, so yah!

Agawin Sa Apoy Ngayon

A-gawin sa apoy ngayon
P-ara maligtas ang tao; 
R-endahan ng katotohanan, 
I-layo sa diwang
L-ilo.

M-aulan at malamig
A-ng Hulyo dalawampu't walo; 
R-umagasa man ang tubig
A-y hindi ka maaano.
S-agipin sa pagkapahamak, 
I-sipan nila'y nalason; 
G-intong aral ang gamitin, 
A-gawin sa apoy
N-gayon.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Mathemagical World

If the world was run by John Conway,
or our young friend, Terrence Tao,
things would run smooth and efficiently, 
and this is most provably how - 
with the Sieve of Eratosthenes, it could be done.
Boys and girls would have so much fun.   
and every boat and sailing ship
would glide upon a Mobius strip,
costing but root negative one.
Form: Rhyme

Woo-Wei

Yon I see a stream
That dancing down dwells in now
And all my thoughts seem
To beauty of Nature bow
And flow with the flow of Tao.
____________________     
Tanka |20.03.2025| Nature
Note: Woo-Wei:  Taoist philosophy meaning non-action or refraining from acting contrary to Nature and dwelling in now. It is going against the grain of things.
Form: Tanka

Tao

TAO 
Tao 
To Flagstaff 

Jesus 
moneyless 
homeless 
hateless 
how can I really hate you 
if I am numb and there are icicles 
in me 
how can I really hate you 
as much as you deserve particles 
of dust 
motes smoteing freely forming 
in all of the city 
dirty city 
Love gone 
Jesus 
TAO 

Charles Hice 

Copyright ©2006 Charles Hice

Res Pond

i'm dumb
founded

found in
nineteen

sixty but
i lost my

self some
where a

long
the

way for
i tao ted

my own
abilities

and instead
of flowing

like a
stream

i became
a stagnant

pond with
an algea

beard
with no

rippling
water

because
before i

laid down
to float i

forgot
to turn

on the
water

fall
Form:

Premium Member The Tao of Peace




                           ~~


                 Sandalwood incense
                 Tibetan prayer wheel tuning
                 Bonzai tree smiling


                           ~~~              

                 

                 

                       June 20, 2020
                        9:30pm PST 

                      Poem # 1,259
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Economics of Tao

In macroeconomics
we express mutual namaste
for robust ecotherapeutic global climate wealth trends
co-arising
microeconomic bio-ego-logical WinWin cooperative
health-care optimization theories.

Restoring macro-global cooperative wealth
without retributive individual micro-ecological loss
of resilient wealthy Yang/Yin bilaterally co-intelligent
eco/neuro-logical healthy wealth.

Premium Member Winter Bamboo

Did I plant bamboo for the green?
Did I plant bamboo for the white?

When snow suggests that it
lean,
it's tippy-tops aren't at heavenward height
but, rather curled and frozen
somewhere between
the snow-clouds and snowdrifts.
These icicly moments of serene
are not only moments but rites;
snow-gifts.

So, green or white
white or green
it's bendy Kung Fu
serenes this milieu.

Premium Member Thus Spake Tao - (Triple Tanka)

Love cannot be bought
Peace cannot be commanded
Silence is the key -
When actions    or the lack of
Speak out with silent wisdom

When man understands
All life has an equal part
Has a primal share
Then with unselfish ardor
Goes about his chosen work

Always outpouring
Never commanding    silent
Not seeking greatness
Greatness lay in humbleness
A man's deeds speak for themselves
Form: Tanka

If You Want To Be a Zen Master

IF YOU WANT TO BE A ZEN MASTER

If you want to be
a Zen Master to live
the Tao follow a cow.
When cow is hungry
it munches grass no matter
green or dry as hay. When
thirsty the cow drinks, when
tired the cow lays down
taking a break to meditate,
standing stares at the field
as blank as if the world
of words didn't exist. All
just is as it is and that
is Zen with nothing to call
at all. Only moo is cow.
fun

Premium Member Long Life 1

 
wu wei is the path of Tao of going with the flow of nature a metaphor of water which adapts to any shape always flowing always yielding soft, yet in time can cut and shape rock a lesson of Tao ________________________ March 13, 2023 Poetry/Verse/The Teachings of Tao Copyright Protected, ID 03-1531-232-13 All Rights Reserved, 2023, Constance La France
Form: Didactic

Premium Member Tao of Sacred Spaces

Tao of the CosmicCrack
crotched between
Great White Father's 
monotheistic Pole
and silently suppressed
polycultural BlackHole

Now ecocidally remembering
what EarthGoddess has brought together
no straight white privileged patrimony
could healthily
or safely part

Like baptismal waters
of RedBlue blooded Seas
and weaponized seasons
of penetrating drought,
wrenching reasons
for dicked-down drenching doubt.

If We Wish :: Tanka Sequence

Ancient Chinese text, Tao Te Ching, teaches the world is sacred vessel and hence human beings should refrain from polluting it. But, we forget our planet does not have so much space and soon, a time will come when the trash will stay in sight and pervade our lives. Still there's time to change our life-styles in order to avoiding ruin; If we wish to save ourselves we must stop from polluting. ~X~X~X~
© Pratap Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Pebbles

Pebbles

Thoughts are merely pebbles
Being gently washed by a passing stream.

You are the stream.

Thoughts are merely pebbles on a beach
Being gently rounded by crashing waves.

You are the waves.

Thoughts are merely pebbles in the sand.
Being gently worn by the passing wind.

You are the wind
My words can escape on.

Words are merely thoughts
Being gently read by a passing eye.

Yours are the eyes 
That can read my thoughts.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Copla Cuarenta Y Nueve This Bad Guy World

COPLA CUARENTA Y NUEVE: This Bad Guy World

Meantime we’ve got this Bad Guy World
Where the Bad Guys have it all their way:
Should Good Guys laze

If Good Guys stop toiling to mould
A better world in Tao Way:
World in a daze

The Grand Design calls for Spoil Sports
Those “society” thinks less of:
Who the hell cares

Bad Guys are made up of all sorts
President doctor or prof:
Scared guy Life snares

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.

The Hero of Nobility

In my retirement I can live a life the way I take,
The rising sun paints the eastern window red when I awake.
Serenely everything takes its course in great contentment,
The charms of the four seasons are our common enjoyment.
Tao universally resides in things both visible and invisible,
My thoughts run with winds and clouds in forms variable.
If a man remains placid both in prosperity and adversity,
There’s no doubt that he’s the real hero of nobility.
(Tran.)
Form: Triolet

Time Travel

Walking slowly quickly threw the desert looking
wanting water finding sand
finding sand but wanting water looking quickly
travelling in time
time travelling
making way to way of time
making tao to tao of time
day is gone nite is ici
cold is here to stay love is cold
and gone away
time travelling
travelling in time
finding sand but wanting water quickly looking
wanting water finding sand
Walking slowly quickly threw the desert looking
For ewe love.
Time.

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