“Liquid Tao”
The Tao flows like a river;
as wide as the ocean-
as complicated as a delta.
The Tao flows like air,
entering and exiting everything.
But like any current;
The Tao flows.
A traveler does not fight upstream.
To let yourself go,
To release all goals, thoughts,
is to find where the flow goes.
The fool fights the currents.
The average man stays in place.
The wise man lets the current take him where he desires.
To let the flow go its course,
You must relinquish everything-
for everything.
Photo from Bryce Li, 2017
I like how you also used the fool, average man, and wise man phrases in your poem. I also like how you related to Tao to water and a current and talked about how you should go with the flow, it was a good metaphor.
ReplyDeleteI liked the third stanza because it shows the differences from three people, showing how the Tao is the water and can be taken differently in three ways
ReplyDeleteI really liked your third stanza because it really brought the whole meaning of your poem together, and really gave you the paths that a person could choose if they wanted to.
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