Tao Te Ching (67)

Everyone says that my way of life is the way of a simpleton.
Being largely the way of a simpleton is what makes it worth while.
If it were not the way of a simpleton
It would long ago have been worthless,
These possessions of a simpleton being the three I
choose
And cherish:
To care,
To be fair,
To be humble.
When a man cares he is unafraid
When he is fair he leaves enough for others,
When he is humble he can grow;
Whereas if, like men of today, he be bold without caring,
Self-indulgent without sharing,
Self-important without shame,
He is dead.
The invincible shield
Of caring
Is a weapon from the sky
Against being dead.

(translation by Witter Bynner)

Be a Morning!!

Be a morning that strikes garden chimes

And brighten all world with sun & sunshine

Plays a song eternal, brace in its rhymes.

 Passes by so gently, but impacts are high

Hope flower bloomed, once a bud very shy

Serenity in gaze, pronounced peace hereby.

Days were strange, & nights felt lost

Morning received me, all free without cost

Here commences Life, concluding Dead frost.

(Samima) 

Gorging life!!

Live so gorged, & breathe so whole

 Life precious gift, superior to silvers n Gold.

Experience every moment, joy all seasons

Though, some get warm, others bitter for no reason.

Be some energy, and glow for a cause

Seek happiness  inside, a treasure soul holds.

Use all colors from your box of crayons

 Life's much better in bold, italic tones.

(Samima)

Resilience in Roots!!

The promising gospel of human resiliency

Survived plagues extended in decades,

Overcame the droughts of year’s continual.

Mankind has ricochet devils of its time

But for idiocy, I find reluctance eternal,

Its immensity vast & vastness perpetual.

Withdraw to bedrock, recede to roots

Only means to salvation from ruins n dooms,

Have read in histories, is the observation of times.

Future is always a continuation of present,

With past intact for lessons; inherited in dimes

Tower must be build but foundation s Prime.

(Samima)

Fleeting Permanence!!

Time changes, is learning through ages

Never stops never halts, in life’s pages.

Sometimes; in blooms of happiness like meadows

At others, a tree of winter in shadows.

The secret is to go on slowly as this World

Everyday very same, suddenly different and twirled.

It’s the shift that creates life so very loved

Transition always needed to increase its worth.

Today in droughts of scarcity & insufficiency

Tomorrow its abundance in God’s clemency.
(Samima)