Blue Heron

Poised in your elegance

With feathery jewels draping

The slender sculpture of your curving neck.

Your stillness invites

All of time to pour into the

Moment your position commands.

Firmly held high

Above the gentle surf

On thin and stately legs,

Your refined prowess

Captures the imagination.

The slow but sure

Motion of your craning attention

Releases time’s hold with a flash and precision.

A fish found suddenly wiggling in your bill!

An another related zen poem…

Urgency

A Way is smooth flowing water

Enabling in ease and difficulty,

Always the same.

But all minds become distracted.

And many still, lost.

Rushing to get ahead,

They fall behind and have

Already begun to wither.

Inspirited: Sengcan