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Brycical Mar 2015
Banana splits lickedy his spican-and-span throbbing
peninsula clock jar.
The scar from his far faux **** ignited his beating
hexagonal calendar.
Which is used to peruse the jujubees metallic books in the public
libation crazy train station.
His ecstatic adulation exemplifies why diamonds are
a girl gorilla's favorite soap.
His floating cubed boat is on a remote desert
impala growling at the turquoise toilet.  
But his spoiled toys are annoyed about the choice between life or
demonstrative sponsored concerts by budweiser.
Woeful razor beaked birds marvel at absurd his Salvador
Daoist Dharma surreal cereal caramel karma flakes.
I do and do not own the rights to this poem that didn't exist until just now.
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2023
Gonna write a little one now
The little way is power
The Daughter in Daoist Dublin
But no man knows the hour

                      Ole!
Ajibade Da Silva Dec 2016
"I have not taken a wife because I do my best to avoid disappointment"
- Jin Bao Seifu "Hundred Eyes", Daoist Monk

Men admire beauty and praise it so much that
they will aspire to unknown lengths
to
assuage and sustain beauties audience...
it is the enchantment of beauty that intoxicates...rare beauty admires
the substance of mutual admiration...

Beauty can conjure and secure
Sovereignty over a mans mind
&
passions...
should one interact in terms of
logical usury and apathetic cold-hearted disregard
Or
chance at tenuous love & possibility of competing passions

Do we conscript our fealty to beauty
by our
bedding and subsequent warm embrace
of
promised security and sustained endurance long after
the twilight of the nights ecstasy
spurning dew of mornings uncertainties

"Young beauty what can you offer a man not made to completion?"

"To lay my softness upon him."

Beauty is Prey Mantis

"Do you now desire a sip"
- Jin Bao Seifu "Hundred Eyes", Daoist Monk is a character in Marco Polo Netflix series
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2021
I can see connections
But I often can't explain
It's not only in my mind
But it is bipolar brain

St. Bruno the Carthusian
Stephen King in Maine
Silent Daoist hermits
The Man of La Mancha, Spain

Wendy in the silence
Mad but not insane
My postcards to Alex
Ride the Tucson Train

Soren Kierkegaard
Melancholy Dane
Help me reach the single one
Miles Morales y Lois Lane

           I am a window pane.
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
0
Ain't no justice, Richard Parker
But hope springs eternal
Friends still embrace
7 Bridges Road

He eats peach cobbler
I eat won ton soup
Daoist hermits meditate
The Ghost of Old Tom Joad

Free libraries
Open basketball courts
African shamans
No need to speed or goad

Sleeping under stars
Making out in cars
Memories recede
Memories explode

         Zeroed.
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2021
Basketball tonight
Michigan vs. UCLA

I eat my veggie burger
I watch the game hey hey!

Moon in mist above
Yellow light xie xie

Dragon temple in Taiwan
Episcopal church today

Celtic Cross. Daoist Way.
Dennis Willis Aug 2019
What is it about soft
That the Universe wants?

Mushy messy bags
"of mostly salt water"

carve firmament
into filigree

being the current
apogee

Beggar the daoist
advantage

A tattoo of nothingness
done with style

A somethingness
for a short while
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2021
Entertainment is the thing
We'll strive to please you every day

Shakespeare in Staunton
101 in yon Taipei

Hidden Daoist hermits
Following the Way

Rock n' roll mystery music
The way adult Americans play
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2021
Tomorrow to Taipei
Back to you, Tienmu

Won ton soup in winter
Taxi to be true

101 at night
Teaching in the day

Daoist mystic flight
Silently Xie Xie
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2019
One
Daoist hermits, Dragon temples
         deep mountain silence
                     solitude
Qualyxian Quest May 2020
Sangha Tea
NASA shirt

Synchronicity
UFO alerts

Childhood memory
Ernie and Bert

Bangkok malls
Mongolian yurts

Taipei 101
Daoist dirt

Key to the Universe?
Old parked car

                     Please insert.
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2023
I'm gonna walk the way of dailiness
Step by step by slow
The time will come to fly
A Raven told me so

I play the long term game
I run the distance race
I sail the cosmic sea
The Vatican sails space

I'm drawn to 17
I eat in Irish bars
Sauerkraut and broccoli
This love that we call ours

She's beautiful, intelligent
Exomoons with water
Young sons sung
Denver Daoist Daughters

          Sweet Surrender!
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2021
A little happiness
My boys in joy at play

The need for gentle beauty
Within the USA

Chapel of the Cross
Silently I pray

Daoist hermitage
Silent is the Way

         xie xie
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2018
Red Pine in the Chang’nan Mountains
Circa 1989
Conversing with an elderly Daoist hermit
Chinese children below
Starry sky above:

Who is this Chairman Mao
                              You keep speaking of?
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2023
Stanley Yelnats. Hector Zeroni.
The wolf and the lamb
If only, If only

Cliff Pickover
Found in Taipei
Wizardish
Daoist Way

Exoplanets
Extrasolar water
My 3 sons
Her 2 daughters

Tragedy
Story forever
2nd kiss
Sacramento Heather

                     20902
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2021
Tonight I got my mind
On 1986
My mom was still alive
Florida and flicks

Christmas is a myth
Birth the Divine Child
Emily in Amherst
Nights at sea and wild

Why do I keep writing?
Can I really say?
Daoist monks in solitude
Xie Xie along the Way

Disability
That is what I've got
Give it all away
To help my brother Scott

                Fought.
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
The sadness of the United States
Ignorance ain't bliss
But yesterday a-spittin'
South Mountain in the mist

Red Pine with Daoist hermits
Spirits, little shrines
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Zachary Quinto y Chris Pine

Andy comes on Sunday
I need to fix my car
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Exoplanet star

            Exomoons El Mar!
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
Transience
That's the Buddhist insight
Daoist too
We just do not last

Drove from Seattle
To San Francisco
Jesuit Volunteers
Silent in the Zen Center

Belgian waffles
Jamaican **** chicken
But I don't eat meat now
A little fish

She calls me
We talk
We walk

                  I wish!
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2023
Lombardi Cancer Center
Where my mother Sally died
Grey Georgetown stone
George W. Lied

Chinese ornaments
Little Christmas tree
Taipei, Taiwan
Won ton - xie xie ni

A little Chinese food
Beef and broccoli
Vegetarian spring rolls
Daoist Destiny

Taipei American School
2009
Rieko y Takahiro
Tokyo divine

                    Ein
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
C.S. Lewis on the 16th Century
I've been to Oxford twice
South Side of Chicago
Ooo dat girl looked nice!

The Washington Post is chaos
English majors can't write
A kind of Daoist practice
Vegetarian delight

Hospitals in Bangkok
Volleyball in Taipei
She tells me deja Vu
I tell her true xie xie

       Ms. Mary May
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2023
It had to be poetry
Maybe one gets through
1987
6972

I've written quite a lot
But do what do I do?
Lost in Translation
Dune. Arrival. X2.

The library is lovely
I still fear annihilation
Biography of Thomas More
Epilogue Ovation

See her dressed in black
See her asleep in bed
See her, see her, be her
Denver, Daoist, the Dead

                   *****
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2023
Hotel room was quiet
Got a little sleep
Today my youngest son
Tonight I sleep alone

Red Pine's Daoist hermits
Mist on the mountains
Yon cool and crystal fountain
Couilanu. Ioan.

Never been to Romania
Have been to Southeast Asia
Restricted Account on Facebook
I threw a Rolling Stone

Tecumseh in Detroit
Me at the Fox Theater
Battle of South Mountain
Mist. Twist. Unknown.

                  Unknown.
Daoist hermits in the mountains
Red Pine's conversations
General Shang meets Dr. Banks
Language education

I eat Hunan vegetable
Won ton soup and rice
Dragons on my placemats
Dragons. Very nice.

I'm lonely without a woman
Lonely as the rain
Time tick tocks
German bullet train

Jeremy in Hong Kong
I visited years ago
Kamakura Buddha
Sitting in the snow

        Yoko yo yo!
I'd like to be a shaman
But instead I'm just bipolar
What I feel for her is love
And I finally told her

Bought some post cards today
Lunch was Indian buffet
I like the Daoist Hermits
Silent is the Way

Big blue sky in Reno
California snow
One man come he to justify
One man to Overthrow!

                 Yo espero.
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2023
Too tired to do too much
Movies more than books now
Sleeping
Soul sorrow

Crumbling Irish churches
Restaurants closing
Politics portends
Baltimore tomorrow

Grateful for my dad
Mostly quiet
He's 10 years old!
xie xie, O Life, xie xie

             Daoist Way
Or maybe I'm a Daoist
Silent is the Way
Won ton soup and tea
Gracias xie xie

            Red Pine!
Qualyxian Quest May 2020
Red Pine
Deep in the Changnan Mountains
Circa 1989
Conversing
With an elderly Daoist hermit:

Who is this Chairman Mao
You keep speaking of?
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2020
Encryption is for security
Messages received

Some things must be discovered
In order to be believed

Daoist masters test their students
Wait for the right time

I play basketball at night
Drink cranberry juice with lime

Seattle in the summer
The American Sublime

But now it's Fall and cooling down
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2020
Red Pine in the Changnan Mountains
Circa 1989
Conversing with an elderly
Daoist hermit:

Who is this Chairman Mao
you keep speaking of?
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2020
6:36
before 6:37

palindromes
like a Daoist heaven

madam I'm Adam
not Bert Blyleven

Bob, Mom, Dad
Remember my friend Kevin?
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2023
A lot of stupid people
In these United States
See me in Taipei
Near the Dragon Gates

When I was 17
It was Phoebe Cates
Scarlett Johansen
Something radiates

Ordinary boredom
Lady 88s
The wish for Destiny
Squeezing past the Fates

Young adult novels
Poetry in crates
Highway to Hell
Markson and his mates

          Daoist debates
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
The Daoist hermits just barely write
A couple poems, maybe a recipe

The live alone in the mountains
They eat oranges and drink tea

They live alone in the mountains
So often silently

The Way they live is hidden
Unspoken, non-violently
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Entertainment
We'll strive to please you every day

Shakespeare in Staunton
101 in Taipei

Daoist hermits
Follow the Way

Rock n' roll music
The way adult Americans play
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2020
Red Pine in the Changnan Mountains
Listening to a quiet Daoist hermit:

I'm just a Mountain Man
Sometimes I string together words
And syllables in a way
That really doesn't make much sense

You should ignore everything I just told you.

Would you like some tea?
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
If you don't read the news
You'll be uninformed
If you do read it
You'll be misinformed
Better to read books
Play some basketball

I read Road to Heaven
Ancient Daoist hermits
A little mountain mist
1 man he resist
Jeremy in Hong Kong
Me in Wetheral

Solitude is quiet
Thank you for my dad
I like empty hotel rooms
Please protect Susan
1985
White Nights. Fall.

               See y'all.
Love is patient and kind
But human beings are not
1 prayer for Ry
2 hopes for Scott

Star Trek. Exoplanets.
Dream of other worlds
The Space Coast in Florida
You should see the girls!

Wandering Daoist Hermits
Silent is the Way
Drifting toward death
My sons: callooh! callay!

Jerusalem was brown
Tel Aviv was blue
Vienna was sparling snow
You and I not-two

                  Sophia U.
Red Pine in the Chungnan Mountains
Speaking with an elderly Daoist hermit
Circa 1989

Who is this Chairman Mao you keep speaking of?
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
The Daoist hermits
Leave behind
A couple poems
Maybe a recipe or two ...


And then they vanish.


Finding Them Gone.
Red Pine in the Changnan Mountains
Conversing with an elderly Daoist hermit
Circa 1989:


Who is this Chairman Mao you keep speaking of?

— The End —