Discovery, utility, the Tao and fruit
Free Verse by Douglas Colston
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Thou knowledge of the Tao? Capability. The optimal mandarin? Foliage and leaves harmonious, pericarp and abundance. What a moment! Whether nature, understanding, effort, character or child, knowing, perceiving, investigating, remembering or conjecture happens. Why? You. The orange tree freed from slavery (including that related to religious thinking) - a living being. Making paper, letters, books or blades? The future, the same, different or inferior. Husking or peeling? To be. Tea? Liking, loving, gaining, acquiring, conquering, preparing, injuring or attacking. Being strong, capable, helpful, yielding or compelled? Existence, created, effective, transient, emotive and fated. To find that thriving (gaining clear knowledge) - where 'useful', 'serviceable', 'profitable' and 'typical' leaves, orange and peel are delightful, productive, profitable, successful and rewarding? You giving thou knowledge ... using orange leaves and fruit peel.
Douglas Colston hails from Australia, has played in Ska bands and picked up university degrees, supported his parents during terminal illnesses, developed mental and physical disabilities, married his love, fathered two great-children and had his inheritance embezzled. His creations are intended to make a positive contribution to the zeitgeist.