Sails doused and stowed, the anchor set in muddy bottom
Reclining crew rest tired feet up on the transom
Raised glasses clink as rose red sun’s descent is toasted
Day’s tales regaled, awash in evening’s pastel palette
Posts Tagged ‘mindfulness’
Slack Tide
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged anchored, mindfulness, present, present awareness, resting, sailing, slack tide, tide on April 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Perfect Teacher
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged bay bird, Chesapeake Bay, fishing bird, Great Blue Heron, heron, mindfulness on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Great Blue Heron
Doesn’t know he is fishing
Alert eyes fathom the shallows
Without expectation
U-Turn
Posted in Getting Over Me poetry collection (Dharma), tagged awareness, Buddhist poetry, Dharma poetry, ego, hope and fear, mindfulness, safer world, terror alert on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Better if the sign said “Ego Alert!”
Reminding this off-duty cop to patrol inner roads
Radar set to detect malice in my own heart