{"id":1644,"date":"2014-09-19T12:17:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T17:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2014-09-19T12:17:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T17:17:17","slug":"poem-cautionary-tail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/19\/poem-cautionary-tail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Cautionary Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shadow pays homage to light<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In a place beyond compare<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And as a cautionary tail<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>May you not be doggedly wagged<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This short poem is a tip of the hat to the Taoist idea of complimentariness or yin-yang, such as light\/dark, good\/evil.\u00a0 That light can only be understood in relation or contrast to dark is a deeply embedded reality in human experience.\u00a0 While the Tao, or the Way, is beyond compare, good and evil often show themselves in stark contrast.\u00a0 In relation to human development and enlightenment, our dark side, our shadow, can provide powerful insights and cautionary tales as landmarks to help us to move along to a better place.\u00a0 Of course, a fixation on or brooding over our dark side can imbalance the good it serves to enlighten and demarcate through contrast.\u00a0 While good and evil have a complimentary aspect, good and evil are not equivalent.\u00a0 If our perceptions, attention and will are not seeking the good, then the tale of woe and darkness may wag the dog.\u00a0 Seek ye first the good and all else will follow &#8212; even that wagging evil so doggedly attached to all of human endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow pays homage to light In a place beyond compare And as a cautionary tail May you not be doggedly wagged This short poem is a tip of the hat to the Taoist idea of complimentariness or yin-yang, such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/19\/poem-cautionary-tail-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[400,581,555,392,428,658,94,601,53,320],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-balance","tag-cautionary-tale","tag-enlightenment","tag-evil","tag-experience","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-reality","tag-short-poems","tag-tao"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Cautionary Tail | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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