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Subject: TAOISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HIGH ROAD TO TAOS, by MICHAEL TRITTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's some kind of flicker at the base
Last Line: Slow, slow in a swim of wild amber, %we stop at the first red light
Subject(s): Taoism; Travel


TAOISM AND BUDDHISM, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A traveller came from across the seas
Last Line: To the heaven of bliss fulfilled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Buddhism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Religion; Taoism; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 117, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I deplore this vulgar place
Last Line: We soon see if it's gold or base
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Taoism


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 139, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one kind of person
Last Line: A vast expanse of woe
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Taoism; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 246, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I recently hiked to a temple in the clouds
Last Line: Persisting in idiocy holding onto doubts
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Taoism; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 255, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People search for cloud roads
Last Line: Cloud roads are in space
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Clouds; Roads; Taoism; Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 298, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buddhist monks don't keep their precepts
Last Line: All are at the foot of hills
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Taoism; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 4, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking for a refuge
Last Line: He forgot the way he came
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Taoism; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE TAOIST PAINTER, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He begins with charcoal and outlines
Last Line: The leaves drift to their death.
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Taoism