"Yalto Form"
"It is said, that we are born from a quiet sleep
and that at death we slip into a calm awakening."
Chuang Tzo (Tao Sage)
The Taoists
believe that death
is not
the end but is
just the beginning
Beyond death
some souls
incarnate
again
to new life
Like cycles
of seasons life is
circular, beginnings
new
birth, death, incarnate
Categories:
taoists, introspection,
Form: Verse
The tender strokes of becoming,
Are found atop of agony and loss,
In the heart of suffering, a seed is sown,
It's the bud from which I have grown, ever blooming.
Here I stand in front of the mirror,
My reflection forward in time self so clear,
His eyes bear the stories of resistance,
He whispers, "Thank you," to the echoes of persistence.
Each sacrifice, a chisel to the soul,
Carving out a being, from the unformed whole.
Pain, the artist, shapes us in its grip,
From nothingness to purpose, on life's canvas we flip.
In him I see the man I could become,
With gratitude in his gaze, he acknowledges me,
The sacrifices made, the suffering endured,
Crafted his form into someone that’s truly free.
As the Taoists say, we're an un-carved block,
Enduring life's trials, against time's ticking clock.
We transform, reshape, and make anew,
From formless beginnings, to true virtue.
I bear the marks of suffering, the etchings of sacrifice,
I've become the cup, in which my fate rests.
I am now of use, of purpose, and might,
A testament to endurance, a beacon of strong willed protest.
Categories:
taoists, confidence, courage, dedication, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Taoists recognize
all outside exposed inside egos
feel watched
when walking through
a new or, some stressed times,
even a long familiar
housed human eco-habitat
But some of us feel marginal,
suspected,
anxious about being judged
and shamed
and blamed
for assumed insufficiencies
at aggressively playing monoculturing win/lose
Straight
WesternWhite
Patriarchal
eco-political games
And sometimes we feel anticipation,
privileged multicultural excitement
and active hope
That the multigenerational family
moving in next door
will have kids our win/win needy age
Still health/wealth co-empathic
feeling ego/ecosystemic healing memories
Of past
RedYang/GreenYintegrity walking
waking small revolutionary
repurposing
transportive
transcendent communion experiences
ReStorying Earth's polyculturing just Ways,
PolyPathic Means,
CoMediations of health-felt cooperative experience
In Ego/Eco-Pedestrian NonZero Zones
of active co-mediation,
win/win strategic and healing game designers
bilaterally co-passioned,
walking along 1/0 binomial
double-binary
boundaries
Anticipating ego/eco-systemic
compassionately progressing
communions.
Categories:
taoists, angst, anxiety, bullying, environment,
Form: Political Verse
I like to start my day with a hot cup of coffee
I pound down the coffee
First thing I do every day
as the dawning sun
Lights up my lonesome room
Yeah, but not just a simple cup of java Joe, but a God damn snarling sarcastic smarmy cup of coffee
I mean, - we are talking about an alcoholic, all speed ahead, always hot, always fresh, always there when I need it, angry, attitude talk to the hand Ztude, bad, bad assed, beats breaking, beatnik, bluesy, bitter, y, bombs away, capitalistic, caffeinated up the ass, cinematic, communistic, Colombian grown, Costa Rican inspired, Cowabunga to the max, crazy assed, devilishly angelic, divine, divinely inspired, dyslexic, epic, extreme vetting, evil eye, expensive, erotic vision inducing, Ethiopian coffee house brewed, euphoric, freaky, freazoid, foxy, Frenched kissed, French brewed, funkified, foxy lady, graphic, GOD in my coffee, with Allah, Ganesh, Jesus, Kali, Buddha, Christians, Durga, Hindus, Mohamed, Jesus and Mo and their friend, the cosmic bar maid, Sai Babai, Shiva, Taoists,
Categories:
taoists, desire, drink, drug, food,
Form: Free verse
Indulged in green tea this evening
Two cups to be exact
And I mean tea
not the intoxicating herb
which used to be called tea
I am not Chinese
But they have some good ideas
One of them is imbibing green tea
In China there have been Jews, Chrisitians, Moslems
Taoists, Confucians, Buddhist and probably some
some other systems of belief
Now these systems struggle against a vicous foe
The battle has begun in Hong Kong
Another Tiamamen Square?
Let us hope not!
I only know a few phrases of Mandarin
My nephew is marrying a Chinese women
next February
Looking foward to the tea ceremony
Categories:
taoists, political, religion,
Form: Free verse
Unitarian Universalism
feels as old as Taoism
governs as old as conscientious breathing
Yang strength in
and Yin flow out
smells as fresh as spacious time
in Here
and out Now.
UUs, like Taoists
and Buddhists
and JudeoChristians,
and Hindus,
and Jains,
and some Agnostics and Atheists,...
"affirm and promote respect
for the interdependent web of all existence
of which we are a part."
We do not affirm
or promote
or even breathe
respect for autonomous walls
against all multicultural life
in which we spin timeless solidarity.
Categories:
taoists, culture, earth, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Replicas of calibrated handshakes,
captured screen-shot
search engine eyes,
silent in the deep darlings
of purple prose,
canons of instant articles of diction:
Taoists aren’t too quick to judge;
Machiavellians have mothers, too. But,
stirring anger to prance
in the unknown
is not in our nature
to prevail.
So Be without expecting expectation,
try while not trying,
and take nothing
to keep no more than now.
A minute steak for breakfast everyday,
cut and pastes a concise future
in a poem from,
predicted, or taken
from an abandoned URL.
Categories:
taoists, absence,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 39
Carbon molecules woken up by thunder
Is violence life-wire of existence
Can God come into being beyond Nature
Violence in warp and woof of our nature
Can one avoid being part of violence
Carbon molecules woken up by thunder
Who put Arjuna on guard against anger
The cause of the Great War was not in suspense
Can God come into being beyond Nature
Arrogate violence and commit blunder
Can one take life and affirm his existence
Carbon molecules woken up by thunder
Taoists live life in accord with Nature
The seasons come and go in munificence
Can God come into being beyond Nature
Make not god to quibble about his Father
No god re-appears like this Grand Existence
Carbon molecules woken up by thunder
Can GOD come into being beyond Nature
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015
Categories:
taoists, nature, philosophy, religion, violence,
Form: Villanelle
Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 24
Shout it hoarse on mountains how gods stand for peace
And in private plot the ruin spurn another’s faith
Do all voices hark to one and same mouth-piece
Zoroastrians Zen-Buddhists Jains Taoists
Do they seek to adorn other faiths in wreath
Shout it hoarse on mountains how gods stand for peace
Declare there’s just ONE GOD when put in tight squeeze
Why then cling on for life on one’s own blind faith
Do all voices hark to one and same mouth-piece
No believer conditioned by birth will release
Supremacy of his another’s not to loath
Shout it hoarse on mountains how gods stand for peace
Look How religions flourish in locked inland seas
Once kings renounce or conquerors ram down faith
Do all voices hark to one and same mouth-piece
And think why the ONLY GOD does not want peace
The Creator sets the ground rules in good faith
Shout it hoarse on mountains how gods stand for peace
Do all voices hark to one and same mouth-piece
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015
Categories:
taoists, humanity, religion, violence,
Form: Villanelle
Destroyers of Dissidence
Grievous Gandhi
Reticent Rasputin
Examinating Edison
Ardent Atlas
Tenacious Taoists
Superfluous Shakespeare
SunshineWilliams
Categories:
taoists, history, how i feel,
Form: Acrostic