[ Give way, only to receive even more ]

To go back to the beginning, a never-ending, the entrance to the path

Not to ever speak, nor to demystify, every competition stopped

For if you finally Tao the Dao it sure is no longer that Tao

O were I wise, truly sensible, then I would chat less

And give way, only to receive so much more

Then I would ever dare to ask the Taiyi

Return, o return and never go back

And reinstate me in paradise..

 

Demystified Eighty and One

© 2022-12-14 to 2023-01-28

Note.

Taiyi - 太乙 : Great Oneness, Great Unity

Zhenren - 真人 : Perfected Person

[ Look Inside ]

 

For some the promised land is that small patch of earth

with just these inhabitants all known to one another

They can hear and see their neighbours but have no desire

to either visit or occupy, not even to conquer or compare

They, these simple people living of their promised land, just favour and like

their own little ways, their food, specific clothes, protective of their homes 

Demystified Eighty

© 2022-12-14

[ Nearing the exit ]

 

If your body aches, like mine, and fails you, as mine does

remain as elastic and listen to the signals of your frame

move along, work with it, just do not strain or burden

As for your body so for your mind

softness, kindness, subtlety 

these bring life to life

It's when you've become inflexible and harsh

that's when you belong between six shelves

Demystified Seventy-six

© 2022-12-07

[ On social justice and natural balance ]

 

Well finally, ....at last.... .

We've reached that road

route 77

that takes us from earth

This miry route is not paved

with good intentions

not by taking from have-nots 

with good intentions

nor by giving more to haves

Only the tollkeepers on this route

distribute fair to all who pass by.

Demystified Seventy-seven

 

© 2022-12-07

[ Aunt Sally ]

 

The contradictory of it all is in the right to the tithe and title, throw the sticks

when a ruler is crooked, not straight, it can't be used for true measurement

Not the poor scapegoat sent into the desert carries our sin, guilt and shame

nor the Son of Heaven, their sacrifies do not diminish our sin, it's truly ours

Demystified Seventy-eight

 

© 2022-12-14

[ ¿¡ ..Unconfuciused..?! ]

Where there's hate there can never be peace...........!

Should every debt be collected till the bitter end.......?

Can there ever be a fair contract among unequals...?

You know, Xi, the son of heaven has died, accept it..!

Demystified Seventy-nine

© 2022-12-14

[ The cross you impose on your self ]

 

Would you add worth to your life

by piling riches to your wealth

as every surplus you allow yourself

comes at the cost of the other

Isn't your soul by far too precious 

to be diminished by your ego

as is a good life for your neighbour

even if of a different descent

not worth every penny you've got

Demystified Seventy-five

© 2022-12-03

....and this is what they're saying....

                                                                                             

|                                                                                            |

|                                                                                            |

|                                                                                            |

|                                                                                            |

|                                                                                            |

|                                                                                            |

|                                                                                            |

                                                                                             

    A Chinese White Paper Protest 

                             © 2022-12-03

[ The junction of 74-th street ]

 

What if a people becomes a rabble

a mob that indicts, judges, executes

can and will such verdict ever be just 

What if the ancient wise were wrong

to fear death and the state's hangmen

not ending tyranny from those in power

What if the ancient and the mob cut and

wounded, with their hands their very soul

would my heart be capable to correct it all 

What if you could live of this earth as equal

all children of Gaia caring for fellowship love

life and remain limited in number and feed all

What if that would all be possible but only after

right after the judgment and fall of that other mob

supporting those in power and I'd be its executioner

Could you, would you, be the juror, give your vote to me

or do you - like Moses once - choose to plea for all people

as the Almighty proposed an end to the feast and start anew 

Demystified Seventy-four

© 2022-11-30 / 2022-12-07

[ The fisherman casts his net ]

 

The fisherman casts his net

and catches heaven

Silently he looks at the birds in the sky

that tell him where the land is

He accepts the waves as they come

and so masters the water

When he drags in his net with bare hands

it brings prosperity and life 

And while he doesn't speak answers flow 

he fights no wars yet conquers all

Y por inofensivo que sea este pescador, estoy enganchado

atrapado libremente en su red por la eternidad

Demystified Seventy-three

© 2022-11-16

[ On that endless Chinese wall ]

On that endless Chinese wall

the people had written

- limit me not -

it said

- don't make us hate you -

they'd engraved

- what you fear ruler, is near -

the stones cried out

- let us have our dignity -

the ancient walls themselves wailed

and

his eyes read these words

and he looked as ever

inside his heart

where 

he locked these wishes

and nodded wisely

to the future

 

Demystified Seventy-two

© 2022-11-01

Note.

The wall is endless it doesn't stop at the Chinese border

like people did not stop migrating at nature's boundaries

just as One knows no limits knows only eternity and you

©

Thoughts of non-belonging

Subtitle: a yearning for what was known before

Some of us are born suicidal

as young as they can remember

there are thoughts of non-belonging

These bones experienced as hindrance

thoughts of suicide are there from the start

rid the mind of a body a cage that holds back

Locked inside  a self  that has been imposed

a myriad of viruses of bacteria of water and clay

yet it isn't a life that's rejected strictly the limitations

Of not fitting in that body whether you're boy or girl

it is completely seperate of sex independent of gender

it is all about spirit, soul, being, feeling limited by the flesh

That forever longing for limitless space, unlimited movement

but find yourself earthbound, strapped in a stale and inept society

to be elusive as not to be measured and be able to grasp all in a blink

And for all the thoughts and attempts of losing this skinned constellation

it is never an option to put the suicide in effect, for we too rejoice our maker

to embrace our future, a love that goes and comes with it, knowing the reward 

No depression, not boredom nor a torture of flesh and bone by some demonic mind

will ever lead to self-destruction, even we who are like spirits unsuited for its casks drink

mother earth's fountain and share centuries of lives still we feel and know we do not belong

© 2022-10-31

[ The shortest of verses ]

 

The shortest of verses

requires 

the longest of thought

To know what's based on heaven

and know nothing else is enough

Demystified Seventy-one

© 2022-10-26

Nota bene.

For to know what you do not 

takes time for finally to know 

nought is knowledge 

what's nowhit and what's not

and for some few it's enough 

© 2022-10-26

[ Lineage of The Word ]

Lineage of The Word

Nowadays the people use words

that have lost their meaning

they have mislaid their grip

on the true meaning of the word

Words used carelessly, senselessly

whilst every so often out of context

Likewise people have become detached

from what I have taught 

that my prophets have sought to pass on

It's just these very few who know the word

and understand for they are known by me

The sages who hold my treasures

live disguised among the common

they seldom use their words lightly

keep the divine principles to heart.

Demystified Seventy

 © 2022-10-18

Haiku on the death of a journalist

 

With   that   lovely  smile

You voiced the occupied

Jude shot and slew truth

© 2022-06-04

For Shireen Abu Akleh

[ Three treasured strategy ]

 

Three treasured strategy

Incomparable I am 

Grand yet you may see me small

Peerless I am

Happy with tiny bits and pieces

Gracious

As I never put myself in front

Modest

Always prepared to forgive

Generous

To temper my temper

Passionately

To lead by submission

Philanthropist

Whom heaven keeps

I choose to be a guest rather 

than to be master of a house

as

history has shown that in the end 

it's the attacker that always loses.

Demystified Sixty-seven, Sixty-eight and Sixty-nine combined.

© 2022-10-08

This story does not end with the last line...

His

He found himself 

at the left luggage

of a bankrupt world

Spiritually drained it had become

men deprived of any compassion

for those left owning naught to nil

Yet when the bank had declared his failure

a stone fell from his chest, the breath freed

filling the one backpack, its content sufficed

He knew another planet was there to be won

Hers

She had become baggage

because in a failed society

she couldn't afford the rent

What was more important to her body

was to shield her little girl from a harm

so, her mind travelled out of this world

This fairness within surpassed her outer beauty

where the petty and wealthy drooled and craved

and owned all, but never would have just enough

She knew another celestial was there for the taking

Theirs

As the world had foreclosed their lives

they were destined to meet somewhere

to anywhere off or within society's spoors

As her little girl was blessed outside the digits

was raised with vowel and consonant and none

of the strings of zeroes and ones that interrupt life

The ancient backpacker rescued a guiltless from fornication

while he slew her ways and her clients never to reach a peak 

again. She just smiled and kissed the olden gently into her life

They by fate intertwined found a haven and joined to raise their..

© 2022-09-25

Note.

No, this story does not end with the last line

there is a beginning of the end tucked away

it's filled and blessed with love, green acres, 

a tree house and other misfits from all over...

© 2022-09-25

[ Whilst sweet rivers flow unto ]

 

Whilst sweet rivers flow unto

just as sour rains drop into

how comes this saltiness

Why do ye have so many names

for that one lively salted water

One ocean that accepts all

takes in every that joins

and gives without question

Should I be or act any different

as even mine eyes tear salty

Demystified Sixty-six

© 2022-09-10

[ Sundial ]

*

Sundial

Instead of keeping me ignorant of time and light

they made me smart, and educated,

and with that these prowlers stole my innocence 

*

Sundial

Shouldn't my naivety have been the yardstick

as the solar paradox's a means to return 

to a lesser world, one ruled by nature's demands

*

Demystified Sixty five.

Note.

Ah, to live in a world ruled by Creation,

but no, you made me a slave to my whims 

you make believe that I control my own destiny

that all can, no should, strive after wealth and fame

and now what to choose today, do we visit Disneyland

or Hollywood maybe Bollywood or perhaps trending Qatar

and kill that little voice at the back of the mind, a conscience,

that whispers to me of floods in Pakistan, the droughts in Africa,

of extincting Uighurs, of extincting species from insect to mammal,

and of new fused forces of evil, billions that will soon march, all over

but no, just too far away, not of my colour nor of my tribe, and besides

tonight's Netflix on and tomorrow my successful career, so kill the thought,

any, but that one that satisfies me, myself and I as was taught by this society.

© 2022-09-03

[ Communal wisdom ]

 

My shoulders easily carry 

this weight

They can as I don't value 

this world

As I do not desire  -ire

While I learn without studying

As I educate without teaching

Surpass the mass -es

Support the tens of thousands

If it's about communal wisdom

So do I carry my wight

As I'm just a cautious sage

from finish back to my start

Demystified Sixty four

© 2022-08-20

[ Avoid confrontations ]

Does the wise look at any less

from the very beginning

if it is not too late

Avoid confrontations

but tackle all the

hate, lust and lies

and answer with

virtue, love, truth

Meet the showdown

Straight to your end

as you'll never capitulate

so the wise looks all at ease 

Demystified Sixty three

© 2022-07-30 to 2022-08-17

[ Is it your heart that speaks ]

Is it your heart that speaks

Is it possible that hurt can be forgiven

that shame can be erased from every soul

If only, if only, 

to speak these words

holy place, treasure, sanctuary

can you hear its rhyme and forget all

Even if it were offered to any

the good and bad, the indifferent

the victim and the sinner, the onlooker

still it's only a seeker that'll find redemption

Now you know why tombstones stand erect

and why we have our names written on them

To end this call, 

it's only atonement 

from this honest heart

that can and will be heard 

any else will be on deaf ears

Demystified Sixty two

© 2022-07-25 to 2022-08-17

💖 Beyond rivalry 💖

💖

Where poetry's the foundation for prophesy

💖

and God stands at the very origins of creation

💖

so you are the ultimate source of love in my life

💖 

© 2022-07-24

Written for the 74-th birthday of my beloved Elly J.W. Kiepe, tomorrow July 25th.

A Devil's Talent

 

To reason out every evil act

all in their own best interest

as though it were righteous

© 2021-10-09

Of Her. A traditional haiku.

As light as her voice

As silvery as her laugh

Are my memories

© 2016-10-29

[ Not Ever ]

*

*

*

So you lay low just to reach the highs

*

To be humbled voluntarily

as you chose for servitude

*

All in order to gain a loss and not to loose

*

*

*

Demystified Sixty one

©  2022-07-01

[ Could you be that elusive radical ]

*

*

*

Could you be that elusive radical

and walk the earth on that one path

*

and be worshipped not or worship any 

*

perhaps then even the learned at the helm

will do no more harm and end the traditions

*

*

*

Demystified Sixty

©  2022-07-01

[ To kill the gods ]

 

To kill the gods

to end a religion

to vouch for truth

Akhenaten

As Mo taught us

store basket stock  

start early in life

Akhenaten

Am I just talking about the self 

or on how far one can reach

Perhaps you can own mother earth

to live deeply rooted in longevity

Akhenaten

Yet the I goes beyond

as it fixes its stare

meditating on ecstasy

Akhenaten

And then to inhale truth

just to kill all religion

save that One

Demystified Fifty nine

©  2022-06-22

Locked In His Heart

My Master

You taught me well, 

my friend, my lover,

my sun, my Shams

Where were you as the doors closed on me

as I was buried under ashes of loss 'n grieve 

when all around tried to sooth with platitudes

I stopped speaking out loud 

your words flowed on paper

unlocking my heart's thorns

In a whirl entering my life and leaving my soul

o to be picked and to be savoured by the One

the kernel of the fruit will it flourish and honour

Will you weigh me

carry me upwards

as I silently bleed 

My Lord

© 2022-06-06

Poem triggered by a Rumi quote.

The Blue Aegean

 

Standing on that white grey quay 

so silently awaiting the hydrofoil 

the suitcases that group together 

on the dew wet grey concrete slabs

the sea shimmering the same colour 

as that early morning cloudless sky

the mansions across the bay off white

stone and orange-red tiles like a hat

still all is silent, sleepy even the birds

rest for dawn to come alive, energise

never before was there such a calm

such ease in their stance, stilled like

a photograph faded by the sun rays

soon to rise out of the blue Aegean

to leave melancholy never to return

as the wind that's not there carries

slowly the sounds of the hydrofoil

cutting through the dim daybreak

just out of focus of the Nikon lens

© 2022-05-31

The Isle of Spetses     -     departure

And for this God will wreak havoc (because of Shireen Abu Akleh)

When the once butchered 

become butchers themselves

in a world where nothing's learned

not from the first not from the second

but only how to trample neighbours rights

your brothers and sisters from a shady past

In that sad world you were shining your light

where you spoke for those without a voice

you voiced the occupied unable to speak 

but you lay suddenly still and silenced 

assassinated, so brutally murdered

by a nation strayed from the One

 

****

Rest daughter of Canaan sleep

daughter of Palestine in truth

be blessed for all your work

salam Shireen Abu Akleh

your death'll resonance

the upcoming verdict

****

© 2022-05-14 to 2022-06-18

[ once added rules of sophistry ]

 

Was there ever an eerie time

where [once] just 

ten commandments sufficed

Surely there was, for Mo and for me

But so many hills and years further

the [added] do's and don'ts by men

have changed all into being cunning

There are those that claim misfortune

conceals itself in [rules of] happiness

o was there ever a fitting benchmark

Yes, when the mountain came to me

To look sharp and cutting edge it is

society's [sophistry] sophistication

where all is bling bling yet not light

Demystified Fifty eight

© 2022-05-21

[ This the verse of wishful wistful ]

 

This the verse of wishful wistful

oh, to leave well enough alone

that dream of old to live without

rules, regulations, prohibitions

Where the ancient sage told us

to sit back and let all the people

improve, rank and enrich itself

No strange inventions or thievery

as desireless the sage so the people

to rediscover its original simplicity

Ah, but as in that first line is written,

that friends, is all Longear's Utopia

no longer mine, as I do not believe 

reaching oneness, through people

Demystified Fifty seven

© 2022-05-20

[ My finest line ]

My finest line - will never be read

nor will it be written or be spoken 

it will remain that one line -of life-

hidden deep in my being, forever

as part of an inscrutable silence..

Demystified Fifty six

© 2022-05-19

[ I shook off the burdens ]

I shook off the burdens

of all you'd laid upon me

Kicked off my light shoes

discarded all of my clothes

Ignored the stingers

the scorpions 

and 

the venomous snakes

you'd thrown on my trail

So I walked barefooted 

cashless and guiltless

even as innocent I was

once no sting could hurt

I just reached inside

and relied on what was

given like a blaze of energy

a fist clenched before opened

to release a harmony undaunted

Never a die, never a wrong or captured.

Demystified Fifty five

© 2022-05-17

To Rain On Your Parade

 

Well now Vladimir

all those eyes on Moscow

this ninth of May

but even so 

it was Volodymyr

who paraded on his own

and stole the show

© 2022-05-09

Written in support of the Ukrainian people in their strive for freedom and democracy.

[ Cultivate ]

 

Cultivate

Being one

Emulate

We that have true strength

have no desire for tyranny.

Step by step, cruise

firm, never uprooted 

grasped, never let go

It's my world as I see it

born from inner solidity.

Demystified Fifty four

© 2022-05-04

[ A world filled with Pharaohs ]

 

A world filled with Pharaohs. 

When thieves become kings

dressing in expensive finery

living their extravagant lives

while not caring for the crop

not on a field not in the silo.

Speak of past and present

was there eer an unarmed

one ruler that new the way.

Right!

Remain, remain single weed

know all, yet cannot persuade

the inhabitants of the imperfect.

Demystified Fifty three

© 2022-05-03

[ when mum's just a word ]

 

Oh, mother!

to choose

insignificance

is the hardest

of choices

but what else

could I do

..

[ when mum's just a word ]

..

to honour your child

to find the mum

in my self

.

All this clarity

will cease

once I open doors

go out

and forget to love

and respect

the child you birthed

so I dress my self in dust

..

to become 

..

undifferentiated 

..

and dust

.

Demystified Fifty two

© 2022-04-23

As I Step On Water And Stone

From where I once stood

at this sea of Galilee

remembering you

- my beloved -

I travelled the miles

to that one stone

the last rock in the sea

whispering to you

- my father -

a sea of words 

of thought 

of loving memory

slipping from my fingertips

into the fresh sweet 

and the salty waters

where life sprang

where a quest began

where mine will end

one final day near Clifden 

on that one last rock

I will stand overlooking

an Irish ocean

and I will softly smile

© 2022-04-16

 

[ Intertwined ]

 

Intertwined

peaceful and calm

beginning of everything

He says one we're one

we seek no lordship

we just grant life 

as we transfer

the strength

Look in my mirror and do not see

look behind it and not find a thing

- well, perhaps just that, what is -

Opposite and Complementary

foundation for north to south

from the east to the west

for heaven and earth

or was it a hell

you chose

I forgot

- you decide what you make of it -

Demystified Fifty one

© 2022-04-07

[ As I listen to a lullaby ]

 

As I listen to a lullaby

a spot of death

lands upon the soul

For I discarded the temple

and so lost grip

during years of inattentiveness

through neglect

of my worthy thirteen companions

such blackness

now poors out of the nine apertures

Could I have but had a hold

(and not fear the tigre) 

on my earthiness, my nature

(and nourish life's spirit)

no spots of death would mar

(and wear the shroud) 

the temple that bears my soul

Demystified Fifty

© 2022-03-27

[ And Not Conquer Any ]

 

I just imagine

the path rearwards

little by little

doing less and less

just following

in its dynamiques

For even the immortals

do less than little 

as I just stroll the world 

softly backwards

And not conquer any

Demystified Fourty eight

© 2022-03-26

[ He smiles ]

 

He smiles

            - as i do -

at your honest heart

He even smiles

                - like i do -

at your darkened heart

He meets us all

and doesn't weigh

the right or the wrong

as he adopts any heart

as his own, as the world's

And should we meet, he, you, can have mine too

Demystified Fourty nine

© 2022-03-26

My Haiku For Ukraine

My Haiku For Ukraine. 

People of this world

today's colours of freedom

are blue and yellow

© 2022-03-24 

Мої хайку для України

Люди цього світу

сьогоднішні барви свободи

вони є сині та жовті

© 2022-03-24 

To defeat a bully

 

My peaceful friends

to defeat a bully

you only need 

to offer him 

that clash

he fears

so just

wage

war

on

z

.

© 2022-03-12

[ As he sits going nowhere ]

 

As he sits going nowhere

this sage knows the world

he has travelled the stars

his eyes shut

hard lips sealed

his ears deafened

hard heart unmoved

Who is he I asked

and he spoke

it is you who I am

For I am nothing yet alight

Demystified Fourty seven

© 2022-03-11

 

 

[ And be content ]

 

And be content o man

Trade your horse for an ox

If you want to conquer the earth

Demystified fourty six

© 2022-03-11

Fight Volodymyr fight!

As I lament Ukraine, I mourn freedom

Democracy lost - a world's endgame

And so friends 'we are all death's own'

 бій Володимир, бій! 

Як оплакую Україну, оплакую свободу Демократія програла - світовий ендшпіль І тому друзі, «ми всі належимо смерті»

Kampf Volodymyr, kampf!

Während ich die Ukraine beklage, betrauere ich die Freiheit Demokratie verloren – Endspiel einer Welt Und so Freunde 'sind wir alle dem Tode eigen'

Küzdj Volodimir küzdj!

Ahogy siratom Ukrajnát, gyászolom a szabadságot A demokrácia elveszett – a világ végjátéka És hát barátok "mindannyian a halálhoz tartozunk"

Vecht Volodymyr vecht!

Terwijl ik het lot van Oekraïne beklaag, rouw ik de vrijheid

Democratie verloren - het eindspel van een wereld

En zo vrienden "zijn wij allen de dood eigen"

Combattez Volodymyr combattez!

Alors que je déplore l'Ukraine, je pleure la liberté Démocratie perdue - la fin de partie d'un monde Et donc amis 'nous appartenons tous à la mort'

¡Pelea Volodymy pelea!

Mientras lamento Ucrania, lamento la libertad Democracia perdida - el fin del mundo Y entonces amigos 'todos somos de la muerte'

© 2022-02-26

NOTE.

Written in support of the courageous Ukrainian people and its legitimate and heroic President.

The quote 'we are all death's own' is a line in the: Als der Sandwirt von Passeier Insbruck (on Andreas Hofer, died 1809); an old political folk song for freedom. 

A special thank you to all those brave Russian men and women who, despite Putin's dictatorship, dare to speak out against this unjust war and in favour of freedom for themselves and for their brothers and sisters across the border.

As for the current position of NATO, I prefer to use this quote, it's what Winston Churchill said in September 1938: 'You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war'.