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an old book
An old copy of the Way of Life
appeared on the shelf
in the bookstore by the bay
fresh from 1962
a discolored receipt still in the book
it is from the past lives
then we read it stoned and sober
strange all these years later
it means more now than ever
so simple and complex
a molecule only
a simple maze
a bump in time
a speck and less
in all of it
Lao Tzu speaks
still and quiet
Love this poetic tip of the hat to Witter Bynner's
ReplyDeletetranslation of Lao Tzu's timeless wisdom.
I reread the original introduction, and see that he wrote it in 1944, while living in Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico, about 20 miles away from where I live in Sayulita, Nayarit. Lao Tzu gets even better as we age! Great poem, Richard.