108 Poems #022

Loneliness greets me in the morning
Gentle and attentive
I let it be and breathe


[31 January 09]

108 Poems #021

A wet grey morning
Yet its beauty gently sings
I gaze awhile in gratitude


[30 January 09]

108 Poems #020

Conversations go round and around
Inside my head
Traffic roars by outside


[29 January 09]

Driving to work

Coming over a crest
Below Aconbury Hill
In the grey damp morning
A stream of golden sunshine
Illuminates Dinedor Hill


[26 January 09]

108 Poems #019

A passing pheasant
Leaves no trace in the air
Despite its frantic wing beats


[28 January 09]

108 Poems #018

Without stopping or starting
Night gradually becomes day
Darkness becomes light


[27 January 09]

108 Poems #017

Garden and fields in green and brown
Under a mild grey sky
Soft colours of the morning


[26 January 09]

108 Poems #016

From the darkness
A surprising anger reacts
To every small disturbance


[25 January 09]

Mist

The white and frosty landscape

drifts gently away into the thick mist

[14 January 09]

Need

sometimes there's no need
to do anything

simply sit
simply smile
simple be

here


[15 January 09]

Ice

Standing in the conservatory
In the dark morning
Car headlights illuminate
Patterns of ice in the glass


[28 November 08]

Practising Being

Nothing more joyful
than practising being
at the end of a day
complete


[16 November 08]

Witnessed

Finishing work in the dark
Driving home
Witnessed by the rising moon
Sleeping under the pale white glow

Rising to the luminous radiance
Practising awakening
Witnessed by the suspended moon
No need for anyone to point


[16 October 08]

Being at home

Sit down
Sit still
In the calm of being
Listen to the hum and echo
Of reverberating
Silence

And let everything go
Drop
No need to hold a single thing
A single thought

Boundaries blur and flow
These hands and these legs
This chair and this desk
The tiles on the floor

All here
Together
A silent orchestra
Perfectly so


[23 January 09]

108 Poems #015

On the pile of bricks
Just outside the window
A sparrow hops, hops, into the hedge


[24 January 09]

108 Poems #014

Simple birdsong
A voice of beauty
Speaks to my tears


[23 January 09]

108 Poems #013

Seeing angry accusations and judgements
As ornaments to clear guidance and direction
I walk the path of gratitude and humility


[22 January 09]

Hurt

I unclench my fist

Feel cool air on my palm

And space between my fingers

What if I unclench my heart?



[21 January 09]

108 Poems #012

Angry thoughts and hurt feelings
dropped in sudden awareness
of just this


[21 January 09]

Touched

The moon
At midnight
Illuminates the landscape
Brightening my heart


[11 November 08]

Nothing to Attain

Each movement

Intention is precisely action
Action is precisely intention

A slow walk
Wholeness of being
Gratitude


[11 November 08]

108 Poems #011

Are three lines enough?
Or actually too many?
Silence


[20 January 09]

Tracing

Tracing the origin
Of a patch of light
On the landing wall

Craning my neck
I discover the moon

Brightly tucked up
Into the top corner
Of the upstairs window


[11 October 08]

108 Poems #010

After the rain and the thoughts
Clear and joyous birdsong
In the still dark morning


[19 January 09]

108 Poems #009

Thoughts fall away
Revealing a heart of gratitude
And a space of joy


[18 January 09]

108 Poems #008

Starting the day slowly
Darkness, wind, rain
Give way to sunshine and blue sky


[17 January 09]

108 Poems #007

Conversations, thoughts, ideas
Peeled away one by one
What is at the core?


[16 January 09]

108 Poems #006

Wondering if it's cold outside
I take the compost to the garden
Warm slippers await my return

[15 January 09]

Non-sleeping

joyful insomnia
the kind of complete
happiness
of knowing where
i am
right now


[07 November 08]

Unfolding

The world turns
And the sun appears to rise
The sky lightens and day breaks

Morning practice flows
And clarity appears to arise
The mind opens and joy shines through


[29 October 08]

Human

truly there is no knowing
the unimaginable depths

of joy
of gratitude

this precious human life can bring


[28 October 08]

108 Poems #005

Tumbling thoughts
Released one by one
With open palms


[14 January 09]

108 Poems #004

Palms together
I pass the moon
High in the west window


[13 January 09]

108 Poems #003

Rain in the early morning
Warmer than the frost
Birdsong as the darkness lingers on


[12 January 09]

108 Poems #002

This morning as I sit
A little Buddha comes
To join me in the stillness


[11 January 09]

108 Poems #001

Starting where I am
Where else is there?
Coming home a deep joy


[10 January 09]

Perching

frosty morning
streaming sunshine
sparkling ground
a robin in the bare tree
just sitting


[03 January 09]

Don't make hasty decisions

Dark chocolate
on an empty stomach
suddenly the bathroom calls

Or was it?
Who can know
the root cause of something?

Afterwards
I brush my teeth


[03 January 08]