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Poet gives background for highly praised Haiku, July 4, 2012

A number of readers noted the wisdom packed into one 3-line Haiku by Robert Stone on July 4, 2012 - most notably Billy Joe Fudge, who asked for the inspiration for the verse, which Mr. Stone has explained, below:

Dear Readers,

Yes, when I was writing the haiku in July 4 Today with CM, it felt different. I can't take much credit for all the wisdom. This is number 295 in a project to write a haiku every day for a thousand days and sometimes it's hard to come up with the next idea. So from time to time I do a series of reflections on quotations or sections of books. This is the tenth haiku reflecting on The Tao Te Ching, by Lao-tzu, J. Legge, Translator (Sacred Books of the East, Volume 39) [1891] with about seventy more to go. The oldest manuscripts go back almost two thousand years. You can read this at Sacred-texts.com/tao/taote.htm

The haiku for July 4 is based upon section 10.

- Robert Stone

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