Tag: meditation
A Father’s Day Haiku
Father’s Day for some
Filled with deep sadness or pain
Say a prayer for them
In this time of Hallmark sentiment, forgeting the broader world comes with ease. Easily we forget some exist without the joyfully memories of a beloved father. “Father”, for some, triggers fear, pain; a reminder of brutality and anguish.
Others feel the joy tinged with sadness. Whether feeling a father shaped hole in their heart, our the prodigal father, staring down the empty road, his heart beating next to the son sized emptiness.
Let us not forgot the breadth of human experience, the varietals of joy and pain. Such attention brings us into deeper connection. A thing of truest beauty.
Impermanence
I’m struck by the randomness of the clouds, realizing this combination of colors and structure will never exist again. It doesn’t even exist now. A phantom existing only in my memory.
Sunrise Meditation
Laying here
Sun not yet risen
Quietude dominates.
Bushes outside
This window, soon
Bursting with the
Songs from vigorous
Birds. Oblivious
To their beauty.
They hear stories
Loneliness, violence,
Domination, love and death.
Songs that change daily
Yet remain constant.
Quietude vanishes into life.
Views from my walk
Evening wanderings
Dusk settling upon me
Springtime’s blossoms call
A Friday Meditation
Avoid regret’s pangs
Each day born of potential
Growing towards the sun
Focus
Tranquility asks
Freedom from tyrrany’s reach
Into the within
A meditation while walking
Journeying these streets
This tiny northern city
Gentle waves on stones
A meditation during my wanderings today.
My Mind’s Vigor
Upon this odd hour
My mind flutters gracefully
Over bright flowers.
Carl Setzer: Word Shaper 