Lao Tzu

finding the way around everything that obstructs the way.

So wise souls

leaving self behind

move forward,

and setting self aside

stay centered.

Why let the self go?

To keep what the soul needs

So wise souls

leaving self behind

move forward,

and setting self aside

stay centered.

Why let the self go?

To keep what the soul needs

in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning.

as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language