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The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, by Georges de La Tour
Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

The Silent Flute

I wish neither to possess,
Nor to be possessed.
I no longer covet paradise,
More important, I no longer fear hell.
 
The medicine for my suffering
I had within me from the very beginning,
But I did not take it.
My ailment came from within myself,
But I did not observe it
Until this moment.
 
Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself.

(1970)

#AmericanWriters 19, 1970 October

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The Verse D. Thurmond Aka Jef (James Everett Falcon) Ernst Oliv D.B. Hopper Asif Halim Deepon Elfen41 Joe Marflak
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Our togetherness is like a sweet d… Too sweet, too bitter sweet, Whose awakening should have been i… And now like a dream you will vani… And only in dream can we chance to…
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Rays spring from the East like pu… The humming bird begins his flight… Happily he flies through the purpl… Looking for the lovely pink rose. On the mountain peak,
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The sun sets low in the west; The farewell song is over; We are separating. Leaning on the sandalwood oar I g… Far away, the sky.
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All streams flowing East or West Must flow into the sea; The current from the middleland Sweeps by the lonely island. Gold and silver pebbles mingle,
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