by D Shapiro
SUNRISE?
A heavy sky backdrops
Black forms
Awaiting light’s warmth
Poems
More Nature Poems
by D Shapiro with comments by J Shapiro
DEWDROP
Hanging from a blade
Of grass, a delicate dew
drop reflects the world
Perspectives on A Coconut Tree…And Beyond
by D Shapiro
From a distance the wide leaves of the young coconut tree arched like banana fronds.
But upon approaching one could see the shadow of the tree’s sharply defined needles woven into the grass.
Poems from 1970 in Asia
by D Shapiro
Comments from 2018
A water bug scurries
Across a pond, interrupting
The reflection of a decaying tree
Mind Moments in Poetry: Drizzle, Dawn, Focus , Salute, Like Breath
by D Shapiro
Drizzle
On a damp leash
a small black dog leads
a rigid unsmiling old man
Many Paths, One Mountain
by D Shapiro
LECH LECHA
(Hebrew melody meaning “Go forth”)
This poem was written during a conference in 1990 in Holland at a gathering of meditation teachers from different traditions: Sufi, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Taoist, Buddhist
It is a poem about particular paths pointing to the Universal One. There are three stanzas of Chinese Linked verse, each stanza contexted by two words of the Shema
Shema Israel/Adonai Eloheinu/Adonai Echad
Listen to that part of you who wrestle with and toward God; God who is distant and impersonal, God who is close and near us; all these: we who wrestle, the far God, the near God…..Echad (are One).
Bali Poems
by D Shapiro
- Bubbles
- Out of Control
- Cosmic Wander Journey
- Leaping
- Dancing Clouds
- Whimsy
Returning
In fear we trust
in trust we fear
Gulping, gasping
for air….
flailing, as if trying to swim, stay afloat,
but fear sinking back
underwater,
Sh-t! Hardly poised and courageous
Breathe…remember, Lao-Tzu said
the Tao is also in the excrement