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19 May 2024

Alone standing

 



A small country few people 
let have over ten men hundred men,
men as their officers but not use their power.
Let the people esteem death and not to a distance move.
Though they have ships carriages,
they have no occasion to ride in them.
Though they have armors weapons
they have no occasion to don them.
Let the people return to knotted cords and use them;
delight in their food;
be proud of their clothes;
be content with their dwellings;
rejoice in their customs.

A neighboring country mutually might be in sight,
Cocks dogs their voice mutually might be heard.
The people will reach old age and die,
not mutually they will visit or come and go.






20 March 2024

Humility's virtue




A great state, one that downwards flows,
the empire's union,
the empire's wife.

The female always by quietude conquers the male,
by quietude she makes lowly,
thus a great state by stooping to small states,
on that account conquers the smaller states.
Smaller states by stooping to great states,
on that account conquer great states.

Therefore some stoop to conquer,
others stoop and conquer.

Great states not more wish to unite feed the people.
Small states not more wish to enter to serve the people.
Now both ones, each one in its way gain
they that which they wish.
the greater one properly must make itself lower.






 

13 June 2022

what we miss

 






and you are there
always there

but i don't see
sometimes, and many times,
but you are there
always there







i was too much
into myself



29 January 2021

Be absorbed

 







Be absorbed, be so absorbed that the world passed by, and you nod.







01 December 2018

24 February 2018

From where I come

Bird tale:
From where I come
to where I go,
Live well,
know origin
know end
know journey.