“True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.”
― Pema Chodron
“…Kinship”
Field Trip – A Haiku
Family field trip
Walking in each other’s shadow
Birds of a feather
Breathe – A Haiku
Fireflies – A Poem
The Spirit like fireflies dancing in lanterned hope:
Elliptical spotlights pirouetting away the dark.
The Comforter’s torchlight inextinguishable,
Unravelling the trials of life’s entwined rope,
Sequestering mortality’s
Loosely fitting cork.
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Written for Sadje’s What Do You See # 77
Twice a Year – A Poem
The Earth
Loves Spring so much
That it hurries
From one hemisphere
To the other, every day
That it is Spring there
Collecting Spring blooms
To exchange for Fall’s harvest
In the other hemisphere.
So that hearts everywhere
Feel the joy of Spring
Twice every year.
“Our mistake…”
“Our mistake is in taking this for ultimate reality, like the dreamer thinking that nothing is real except [the] dream.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita
Takeout – A Haiku
Fast food garbage bin
Western gulls circle for pickup
One collects takeout
“Courage.. “
“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions.”
― Shannon L. Alder
Sunrise – A Haiku
Icicles – A Haiku
Touching Winter’s hem
Icicle remnants blossom
Clinging to petals
