Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Sunday, February 19, 2012

a poem

Over the Counter

Please prescribe in moderation only:
Yin and yang.
There are many products that enhances
your over- the- counter performance
of Feng Shui and Tai-Chi,
Qigong and family remedies.
No need to fixate on any name brand,
for they are all an anachronism
of the wonderful “Way.”

Remember to protect yourself
against any sudden precipitation,
leaks in the bumbershoot,
gambling disasters in the Muckoshoot
and when you have lost all,
by all means, please don’t shoot yourself
in the foot.

Because the Tao is with you still,
and I don’t call it merely Good
for it is Great.
It can only be prefaced as such
for there is no known Way
that can be told you,
for even if a foolish attempt is made,
the poor student will laugh out loud,
for if there is no laughter,
the Tao would not be what it is.

Trust me thus as perhaps a misty way to go,
and I embrace you to shield us both.


Koon Woon
February 19, 2012

Monday, December 6, 2010

Poem


Hotel Fire

When a pretty woman cries to me
like a hotel on fire
I am almost normal in response

Bring out the meat
Bring the drinks
Be merry!

Let not the fire and light go to waste!
Bring the pen
Write it down for posterity!

Jaroslav Seifert you are so right,
women do us the least harm

A lesser mortal am I
but we are all mortals alike

When a single woman cries,
the whole night is on fire!

When the hotel burns,
I quickly learn,
how quickly you arouse desire!






Koon Woon