image link that will take you to info on the history of daoism Reena’s prompt for Exploration Challenge #76 was to choose between 3. Reena says: There are a range of words/phrases to choose from – this week. Disorientation Live forward, look backward You are made of stardust, and to stardust you will return If…
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#d’Verse — Quadrille to Change
image link De Jackson is the host of d’Verse poet’s pub this evening. De’s prompt follows: The changing of the guards. Spare change. Positive change. Change your clothes. Change your attitude. Change your life. Changed. Changeability. Changing. You could even go a little creepy on us, and write about a changeling. Whatever you write, just…
Poetry Day 29 — Dao & The 10,000 Things
image link Today’s prompt is, “By the Number”. I like numbers and after working in the accounting field for awhile learned that they do speak their own language. I thought about trying to do something on my lucky number 17 or something about hexagrams from the I Ching, but the number most important to me…
Poetry Day 19 — “What do you want?”
Prompts, etc. for today’s OctWriPoMo include: “What do you want?” …your poem might address someone else… yourself … a thing, person, place, or something else entirely. One of the suggested forms is contrapuntal . “In the poetic world, contrapuntal poems are poems that intertwine two (or more) separate poems into a single composition–often by offering…
Tao Te Ching/Dao De Jing V 12
image link The five colors can blind, The five tones deafen, The five tastes cloy. The race, the hunt, can drive men mad And their booty leave them no peace. Therefore a sensible man Prefers the inner to the outer eye: He has his yes, – he has his no. –Witter Bynner rendition of Lao…
The Dao of Starting and Burning a Fire in a Wood Burner
For those of you who already are experts at starting and maintaining fires in wood burners, you may choose to skip this post; or read it and compare it to your style of starting and maintaining fires in wood burners. Ideal environment and materials: –The wood burner has an excellent, clear stove pipe that vents…
Depot
image link You’ve heard fake it ’til you make it? Where you pretend you’re caring Human, empathetic, a good listener, Monogamous, drug-free, eating single portions. It’s practice, they say, try on the role, And one day you’ll get the golden trophy. It takes time, they say, things worth having Are worth working for. Time…
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