Awakening [a buddhist love poem]
A gentle
warm rain
falls outside
the open window
from the altar
blue gray incense
smoke ascends
and a candle
flame
dances
making every-
thing quieter
Out there
on the horison
a faint light
blossoms
purple
while a lone
dragonfly
drinks dew
from prayers
inscribed on
the temple
bell
Awakened
you and I
face to face
like Buddha
and
the moring
star
that first
smile
of the first
moment
of the first
day of this
reborn
world
Christopher
Christopher Leibow is a poet, visual artist and a sensei is a lay minister with Bright Dawn Way of Oneness Buddhism and is the sensei and founder of the Salt Lake Buddhist Fellowship which he has led for ten years. He has had his art and poetry published international. He lives in Salt Lake City and spends his time with his two youing boys Teague and Ronen
