How to Practice Mindfulness
Measure twice, cut once.
Wood trembling over the decision.
Ten thousand hours.
Passion bottled in time,
capsuled sweat and tears.
Lifting up the sun
Mornings become sacred space.
Put down the longings for breaking news
and tabloid trivia.
Drawing the bow, shooting the arrow.
The bulls-eye expands for the dedicated marksman.
Cast your line, over and over,
into the dry creek. Feel your ankles being
soaked by perseverance.
A perfect circle is drawn
in a thousand errors before
lines meet in concert
with the Conductor’s wand
as the audience applauds the discipline.
Mind races to the edge of delusion.
Thoughts avalanche like boulders careening downward.
Back to the breath is the work.
Letting go, Beginning again
is the Practice.
elmo shade
@the_mindful_poet_wa
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