Taiwan, My Brother
...In the flowing scroll of time, said Confucius, blood remembers where it came from. The mountain does not forget the stone, nor does the sea deny its river. You, Taiwan—jade carved from the same drago...
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Categories:
yat, encouraging, family, fate, future,
Form: Free verse
No truth laced not with trickery
...There’s no council without wise old,
Nor old that vouch dharma nor virtue,
No virtue, truth would not uphold,
Nor truth free from fraudulent hue!
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Translation |20.10.202...
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Categories:
yat, mythology, old, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Imbibe essence that makes sense
...Tomes of scriptures, too much to know,
Too little time, woes, strife on toe,
Track what lies at the core,
Of crux, crucial from lore,
Swans do as from water milk draw.
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Categories:
yat, books, time, wisdom,
Form: Limerick
A poem not in prime time said- 1
...A poem not at proper time said--
Though wisdom so well said, gets slighted.
Like Vedas by an aged wife read
In privacy, say, of nuptial bed.
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Translation |16...
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Categories:
yat, poems, time, wife,
Form: Quatrain
Summon Me I'll shall Appear
...I am the darkness that falls in to your dreams
The nightmare that last longer throughout the night
The catcher of fear to lock-up the soul
A snatcher of spirit through a night invitation ceremony...
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Categories:
yat, dark, poetry,
Form: Vogon Poetry
A Rattling Rhyme
...A RATTLING RHYME
Hannah McCustopha, married to Mustapha,
Couldn’t stop chattering, just like her dear Mama.
Yat ta ta Ya ta ta, Na ta ta Na ta ta.
That was the cause of Ma’s pa...
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Categories:
yat, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Birth of An Epic
...__O thou lowly hunter,
Let no glory may ever grace
Thee for endless years-- still later,
To have slain, and so merciless
A pair of swans in love embrace.
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Categories:
yat, poetry, poets,
Form: Quatrain
A Cup of Seuss
...Good evening, hello sir and how do you do,
Our special today here is dish number two.
Spam I am on a plate with a side of burgoo.
Would you like that? I'll bring it t...
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Categories:
yat, food, silly,
Form: Rhyme