Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content

Bag of Anything

lies, propaganda, doggerel

Bag of Anything

Main menu

  • Home
  • A Likely Story
  • About Thomas Kearney
  • Copy, right?

Tag Archives: Confucius

Kung said something wise

Posted on 10 March 2017 by Thomas Kearney
Reply

Sinar multishot - 16 skott

Kung had a saying
about true wisdom —
how did it go exactly?
Something about the wise man
needing only a few words…

But I forgot to turn down the page,
and — his Collected Works,
such a big book!

Continue reading →

Sharing Is Caring

  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Pocket
  • Email
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Print

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Chinese, epigram, poem, satire | Tagged Codex Gigas, Confucius, Kung, wisdom | Leave a reply

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 390 other subscribers

Find what?

Kinds of Stuff

  • Alphabet
  • animal poems
  • Baudelaire
  • biography
  • character
  • Charles Wright
  • Chinese
  • concrete poetry
  • death
  • doggerel
  • Dragons
  • Dream Songs
  • epigram
  • Fleurs du Mal
  • free verse
  • Ghost Dance
  • ghost dance
  • grownups
  • haiku
  • Halloween
  • image
  • Indian
  • kids
  • Lives of the Poets
  • Navajo
  • parody
  • poem
  • poems
  • poetry
  • rebirth
  • Rilke
  • san san
  • satire
  • Schmalphabet
  • Sean
  • Song
  • sonnet
  • story
  • Translation
  • Uncategorized
  • visual poetry

lies, propaganda, doggerel

Latest

  • Did he feel it too, this upwelling 31 March 2021
  • Next time around I’ll be an old woman 23 March 2021
  • Oh lovely to be Wystan Hugh Auden! 17 March 2021
  • Every rainbow is someone’s 16 March 2021
  • I from a single leaf 14 March 2021

Archive

Watchfulness

  • 14,301 hits

Top Posts & Pages

  • Flim and Flam
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Bag of Anything
    • Join 390 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Bag of Anything
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d bloggers like this: