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Dec 2024 · 64
Wisdom
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Keep your shine inside
it loses its purity outside
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
The day is defined
by one's mood
which determines whether
an event is deemed bad or good
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Know the difference:
obligatory
is not the same as compulsory
Dec 2024 · 66
Senryu
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Old dusty letter
in a book long forgotten
memory erupts
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
It's not possible
to define limit:
none can dissect
measure or count it
Dec 2024 · 230
Pragmatism
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
It doesn't matter
    where you set your sight
     as long as it is right
Dec 2024 · 70
Alignment
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Be in alignment
with your life:
this is the best way
to do away with strife-

the bow must
the violin fit
if out of congruence
there would be no sweet music-

in one voice
love should speak
otherwise
it might break-

towards the waiting sun
the rose raises its head
in this coming-together
the greatest joy is shared
Dec 2024 · 83
Imputation
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Don't impute words
into the mouth of life:
nothing does it speak
you've to accept what is
whether comfort or strife
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Between beauty
and utility
the latter I choose
readily
Dec 2024 · 70
Paths
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Life has so many
a path
that which leads best
is to the heart
Dec 2024 · 54
Who?
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Who?
Not me!
Sorry-
wrong identity!
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
If yourself
     you truly own
     you tower over all else
     even on being alone
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
The day is rich
because you share and give
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
What's unspoken
    can't be broken
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
The heart should guide the mind
the latter could be dead-blind
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
If I were to need
lifting up by another
my life would have been lived
in total error
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
.Self -sufficiency

makes it unnecessary for me

to rely on anybody-

  it also sets me totally free
Dec 2024 · 48
Time and Space
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Every life is caught
  in time and space
  and shifts its position
  in every changing phase
Dec 2024 · 43
Random Thoughts (Truth)
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
If you wish
to know the truth
let yourself
be the truth
Dec 2024 · 54
Society and I
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
I'm part of society
  but to it I don't belong
  it has its own music
I sing my own song
Dec 2024 · 68
Self- fragments
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Not through my words
nor my poems
would reveal the true me-
they are but fragments:
the intrinsic
is contained
in my within

perhaps
only a small part
of my true self
you could but best
have a glimpse

self is seldom transparent
each hides a veil within

you might trust me
implicitly
but I remain
somewhat
a mystery
in between
Dec 2024 · 91
The True Treasure
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
It was failure

which led me

to the right path:

I've since regarded

it as my life's true treasure
Dec 2024 · 266
An Eternal Truth
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
You conquer
not by intelligence
but by good manners
and character
Dec 2024 · 46
Self-Portrait
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
I'm not smart

to any degree:

what I am

is due only

to my curiosity
Dec 2024 · 49
On Myself
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
I'll let my ego
go to sleep
only my humility
to keep
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Let love reign

let compassion fall

like merciful rain


let joy spread

like beautiful flowers

in every shape


let every heart

be at peace

never to cease


let smiles grace

every moment of day

to chase every sorrow away


let  faith and hope

be life's beacon

let prayer never be broken
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Let love reign

let compassion fall

like merciful rain


let joy spread

like beautiful flowers

in every shape


let every heart

be at peace

never to cease


let smiles grace

every moment of day

to chase every sorrow away


let  faith and hope

be life's beacon

let prayer never be broken
Dec 2024 · 62
Life's missing Piece
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
If you haven't wept
over a poem
or a piece of music
your spiritual self
you're yet to own
Dec 2024 · 39
The Wu-wei of Taoism
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
When stepping aside
sets everything right
Dec 2024 · 355
The Way of Zen
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Live simply
leave quietly

feel deeply
accept humbly

hold gently
release freely

cease striving
embrace the emptying
Dec 2024 · 122
Taoism
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
When the best move
      is to be still and not move
Dec 2024 · 105
Self and Others
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
How I see myself
is more important
than being seen
by others
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Tragic this is:
you're owned
by the world
but don't belong
to yourself
Dec 2024 · 51
When you're sad...
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
When you're sad....


When you're sad
recall your growing-up years
riding your cycle after school
with your heavy book-packed bag
your face being caressed
by the gentle  breeze
that drifted above your head
and not for a moment thought
you'd ever grow old
nor that life could
in any way be bad

that resplendent feeling
that made
you lord of your domain
with all life's delicacies
graciously placed on your very plate-

shouldn't you  now be glad
a glimpse of eternity
you've inherited
and that more beautiful things
would follow in abundance
in your every future step?
Dec 2024 · 41
When You're Sad..
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
When you're sad
recall your growing-up years
riding your cycle after school
with your heavy book-packed bag
your face being caressed
by the gentle  breeze
that drifted above your head
and not for a moment thought
you'd ever grow old
nor that life could
in any way be bad

that resplendent feeling
that made
you lord of your domain
with all life's delicacies
graciously placed on your very plate-

shouldn't you  now be glad
a glimpse of eternity
you've inherited
and that more beautiful things
would follow in abundance
in your every future step?
Dec 2024 · 59
The Zen and Taoist Person
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
The Zen and Taoist person, in letting go, lives in a higher transcendental state---a free and unfettered state,  as he's no longer subject to the vicissitudes of life--his peace is enough happiness
Dec 2024 · 44
Choice
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Between success
and honour
it's the latter
that I'd prefer
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
If we don't lie
have could we survive?
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
I've to take leave
for your sake:
staying on an extra moment
will only cause you more heartache-

it's the dictate of fate:
we aren't made
for each other
we've to break

this had been steel-cast
long even before we met :
it'd be a true blessing
not to remember but to forget-

farewell, farewell now
my once dearest beloved
when you see the stars in your loneliness
a single tear you shouldn't shed
Dec 2024 · 38
Sadness and Happiness
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Sadness to some extent
   makes a wholesome person:
   happiness without cessation
   is a life lived in disproportion
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
The world's greatest history
is nothing comparable
to the poignancy
of a person's individual story
Dec 2024 · 93
Senryu ( Departure)
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
I am off for war
  tell Mei dad will be back soon
  before spring's return
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Renunciation
   is the highest purification
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
The world should have hope with the arrival of every child----

they will create what we couldn't and bring our dreams to fruition.
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Tell me the colour
of your past and I
will construct your story
and explain to you the how and why

Tell me the colour
of your life in the present
I'll compose for you
music that speaks of your heart's hidden content

Tell me the colour
of your dream--your fondest-
its semblance I shall interpret
and relate how you will be blest

Tell me the colour
of the future in which you want to be
I'll look through my prophetic prism
which will reveal whether you would be sad or happy
Dec 2024 · 209
Life as it is
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Life is a sticky matter:
    we get more stuck
    than unstuck-
    we can't duck!
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Life shouldn't be over-rated
or romanticised
this would only
have us later agonised

for we'd but have lived
through rose-tained eyes
where pain or suffering
would not arise

only with the march
of time,  to lament and realise
we'd self-deceived, believing
that there were an earthly paradise:

life we shouldn't over-rate
or romanticise
its bluntness , harshness
and sorrows we've to learn to recognise
Dec 2024 · 55
Our Human Condition
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Life has to be lived
though some might not
find it beautiful:
they manage somehow
with a calm acceptance
and don't succumb
to despair or grief-

fragile and vulnerable
is our very human condition
we look before and after
but seldom find our equilibrium

the self is our greatest burden
we bear as best as we can
life has to be fully-lived
it can't ever be abandoned.
Dec 2024 · 114
Woodland
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
I prefer
the word 'woodland'
to 'forest'
it's inviting-
(the latter
I associate
with 'being lost')
and I imagine
it's laden with rest
poetically expressed-

woodland
once my childhood heartland:
after school
there I was
chasing butterflies
in my school-dress

a cool stream
ran between
the foliage
I was lulled
by bird-songs
that drifted across
the silent space

woodland
is good-land
my bed
of tender memories
how could I
ever forget?
Dec 2024 · 103
The Religion of a Humanist
Dr Peter Lim Dec 2024
Religion then
I had none
when compassion
set in---mine I found
all at once:
no church
nor place of worship
an intimacy
I share with only
the Transcendental
where absent totally
is the search or reason-

the self-diminution
the letting-go
the renunciation
the non-attachment
and the final liberation-

if I need a name-
I'll call it the
'religion of man'
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