WATCHING SPRING
April 17, 2013 4 Comments
Abiding in stillness,
Watching, watching.
Trees and grasses
Eat their fill
Of Father Sun
While Mother Earth
Melts winter roots
In the mud.
Resting in stillness,
Watching, watching.
Large black leaf drops
To ground:
Crow.
Strutting;
Head cocks,
Breaks fast in the grass.
Being in stillness,
Watching, watching.
An old man with a white beard
Wears a bright orange turban;
A child points.
Cane ready,
The brown and gray woman
Sidles past geese.
Remembering in stillness,
Watching, watching,
A red ball with blue stars
Rolls by:
The no-more boy is remembered.
Sorrow;
It is as if it is
The first time.
Abiding in stillness,
Watching, watching
Eternal spring.
