by D Shapiro
Comments from 2018
A water bug scurries
Across a pond, interrupting
The reflection of a decaying tree
Poems
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
Clouds Like Rice Horses
by D Shapiro
Black droppings on white pages
Mirror
Water in
Black trashcans freckled with white bird dung
Reflecting