Tao’s a bottomless well
ever used, never drawn down
Call it eternal no thing ness;
an infinite no thing filled with all;
a void of countless possibilities.
Tao is in our face
under our nose.
What made Tao is older than God.
What made it, who knows?
-Lao-Tzu in The Tao Te Ching
There is Nothing False in Thee
There is nothing false in thee.
In thy heart the youngest body
Has warmth and light.
In thee the quills of the sun
Find adornment.
What does not die
Is with thee.
Thou art clothed in robes of music.
Thy voice awakens wings.
And still more with thee
Are the flowers of earth made bright.
Upon the deeps the fiery sails
of heaven glide.
Thou art the radiance and the joy.
Thou heart shall only fail
When all else has fallen.
What does not perish
lives in thee.
by Kenneth Patchen
from Kenneth Patchen Selected Poems
Modern Library, 1937-1957