Where?

 
1. Not doing
is
like breathing
two revealed as one
no success
no failure
the steady hand hits the joints
does not
blunt the blade
does not
overfill the cup
pours
drinks
then stops.

2. This there
that then
place and time...
the West is still catching up!

3.  You cannot eat money
'primitive' is the society that wishes it could
forgetting some
it forgets
ALL
is built on sand
a strong and
hearty gale
would blow it away
would be dust
if not
for the dream
- It's rock
Denial is CRIME

4. The unseen hand
bullying
shepherd like
knows the cattle
farms and factory
run with the herd
lemmings
to the ledge
face the void
the abyss,
a tourist sight
study the maps
too well
but is is not
the territory
"The good traveller has no destination"

5.  Beauty harms everyone
close your eyes
the toad is not anxious
tongues
better spoons than forks!


6.Seems like a bottomless deep
 the cosmos looks like a vacuum
how mistaken
Emptiness holds up the revolving wheel.

7. the cow eats the grass
what do we do?
and
why?

8. Mass confusion
when inside
or outside
Doppler effect
follows then
I
You and me
West and East..
Failing to understand
a pane is put in place
parasites grow from ground roots
even grass needs healthy soil to grow.

9.Better to muck in mud
than meet with the emperor
deal with the devil
offers of a kingdom
treated well
horses do not
need bridles
Like the universe itself
like the bee and the flower
like geese in flight
as the wise old men
of France
 Russia
and China said
out of many ways
ways of ways
a way is found
"The way that cannot be named is not the real way"
"Justice.. the alpha and omega..."

10.Value the world as your self
else you commit suicide

11. childlike
but not
childish

12. "Try to control the world and you will fail"
lead and you will be misled
"Like fire...a fearful master"
Imagine an extra
between bottom and top
and you misstep
do not try to go
where you are going
go without going
like taking a breathe
a change of scenery
means the scene was staged
and the act has ended
if you play a role
and follow the script
you stay stuck in a drama
and carry on mere theatre.

13. Out of water
a fish cannot breathe,
in water
a fly
incapable of flight
drowns,
the neglect of the litter
abandoned
unfed
fails to fatten or fitten
who cares for dinner
if snacks seem endless
the world an oyster
ends clammed shut
your slice is less
pie on my plate
but can't help then
told to blame the food
not the cook.

14. A mist obscures
what is ahead
but ahead is here
from there.
we are already there
if we knew that ahead is
'no-where'.

15. Who built the pyramids
is
the right question
and the key
to everything.

16.  a victory in bowling
the black cat
the french shoe
The OBU
David and Goliath
in Seattle



Writers notes:- Political chinese inspired poetry.