Tao Te Ching #76: “Let strength and might be put below, and tender, gentle in control”

Strong and might brings death, tender and soft brings life

Tim Miller

When people are born they are supple,
and when they die they are stiff.
When trees are born they are tender,
and when they die they are brittle.
Stiffness is thus a companion of death,
flexibility a companion of life.
So when an army is strong,
it does not prevail.
When a tree is strong,
it is cut for use.
So the stiff and strong are below,
the supple and yielding on top.

– Thomas Cleary

When people are born
they are soft and weak
when they perish
they are hard and stiff
when plants shoot forth
they are supple and tender
when they die
they are withered and dry
thus is it said
the hard and stiff are followers of death
the soft and weak are followers of life
when an army becomes stiff it suffers defeat
when a plant becomes stiff it snaps
the hard and stiff dwell…

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Silence of A Thought

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a life to live                                                                                                                             This life have many lives
I have a career to climb
Comes my waiting pen at home
Eager to pour out the boiling issues of
My heart in crafted stanzas of a poem
Followed by the dearest love of my life
When the thought is so deep in my soul
She is right there gazing into my eyes
Praying for the hug that ends with a kiss

You have struck me with a daunted task of a choice
Choosing one out of my three betrothed works of life
It will not be a nasty end without a high climbing career
She is the source inspiring imaginary thoughts of my brain
There will be a silence of poem loosing her presence in my life
Without Stanzas of my poem; how to express my love for her ?

The Glory of a Thing

Melodic voice celebrates the Nightingale
The drums of woodpecker made it to be heard
The scents of flowers made it to be multiplied
The breath of God made us humans
The glory of a thing is something inside it.

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Flashback of A Broken Cord (part 1)

 

The clock was fast Tick-tocking
The brain pressing a pause button
The physical is resolute to move ahead
The first flight experience is real

As I fly higher into the sky
With five fingers hanging on
The Air waving with a laden heart

Was Lovely enveloped in the
Arms of a smoking white cloud
Accompanied by a visible rolling
salty balls water from the eyes
“A cord of love is broken”
The desire to love again is gone
Gone with the rising smoking cloud

Silent voice of love

The murmuring voice In the closest
that Flies away with the gliding
Birds of the field
The laudable voice that echoes away
With the whirling hands of the winds
The pulses of emotion that flares
Away With the radiation of the sun
The sweet feast of my heart that
Sweats through the palms like
A flooding water

The wings that flies
The sun that radiates
The wind that speed
All Makes my love
Dazzles in flames
To the admiration of the blind

I cannot hide it anymore
You are now in possession of my heart

My Heart awaits for you always

The sun that arises in the morning
Rushes back home in the dawn
The Whirling of a wind that starts
From the south speeds back for a circle
The Heaven’s drops of water washes away
Back home, to the body of an ocean

The eyes are not satisfied for seeing
The ears are not filled by hearing
The brain is not broken by thoughts
Neither do arms tired of a wrapped hug
Just like a dried throat in search of water
My thirst for you cannot be quenched in a lifetime
Come back home, My heart awaits for you always

Emotional Sweet Kiss

The taste of a treasured wine drips
Sweetly into my receptacle mouth
Speaking with a twisting tongue
Sound, I yearns for more and more
I hope to sleep forever holding on
The treasure of this excitement

Lost in speech behold it is a
Reality that is far from a dream
The sensation of your kiss gets
Me to a realm of imagination
Now I am shaken to be awake

Serve me this wine as a daily meal to
Nourish the spirit flesh Of my emotion

Why Always You

As I walk down among
the multitude of shrubs
Your lucky fragrance charms
my heart and captured my soul
As I walk through the street of
houses you made one a home for me
Your radiating personality quenched
my thirst for beer with a rushing milk
of your heart, the fuming smokes smell
from your kitchen have enlarged my appetite
Rounding up my tummy just like a pregnant woman
Hungry to behold your face before bed light off have
chained my walk-about leg, with you in my life there
Is Always a beautiful scene even when i dream no more.
My soul is healed because I perceives the fragrance of
Your ever presence around me, being around you completes
The joy of my life, I cry don’t be far from me my love.

You are Exceptional

My dearest!
Exceptionality is the best
Attribute of your personality
You sound loud and clear in
Definition just like a white
Clear crystal
..You are Easy to comprehend..
Just like my nursery school
First class lesson..ABCD…
..Among the garden of flowers..
My eyes is always unable to
Ignore the flamboyant colors
Of your petals.

As a sunshine you have shone
Brighter and brighter in my
pathway that cannot be neglected
..As a laughter you have kept on..
Tickling my ribs that I find it
Difficult to stop laughing
..As a designer you have…
Manifested your creativity on
My face with a permanent smile
That I even smiles while asleep

You are a complete babe
Difficult to resist as you melt away
In my arms like ice never did before.
..You never stop ringing in my…
Head even in the dream of my sleep
I cannot stop thinking about you
..You inspire me to aspire for…
The best I need and that is you.