A yellowed leaf drifts
to the ground – a soft herald
of autumn’s approach.
JDG
Author Archives: Joan
I Move Closer
It wasn’t there yesterday, but
it’s there today,
a large brown bug,
still, unmoving.
When I check again, it’s still there,
still unmoving.
I move closer.
I pick it up.
I turn it over. A tiny
seed’s held tight in
its grasp…What will
I die holding?
JDG
Celebrating Lost Baggage
For a brief moment
old baggage disappeared.
I won’t rush to reclaim it.
JDG
Sitting Practice
Bell sounds
Back straight
Feet on ground
Focus on breath
Focus wanders
Focus returns
Focus wanders
Focus returns
Focus wanders
Focus returns
Bell sounds
Deep sigh
To be continued
JDG
Our Eyes See
Our eyes see,
but thoughts and feelings
cloud our vision.
JDG
What Is This World Coming To?
Taking it easy,
that squirrel, that dove,
lie down to eat,
leaving me to ponder
their recent display of sloth.
JDG.
Beyond And Within
Beyond and within
the wilderness of words
we glimpse the divine.
JDG
Oh…
The discomfort of
not knowing,
the impatient desire
to finally arrive
at an answer,
a solution,
a destination…
Oh, the human folly
of it all when
here, now, right before us,
the sun ignites the trees
with green fire
and the squirrel scratches
his head in astonishment.
JDG
From nothing and everything we come.
To nothing and everything we return.
Meanwhile…
JDG.
Trips Not Taken
When mind and heart take
off on an anxious journey,
writing guides me home.
JDG
