"When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace."
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Early Morning Prayers 

A faint
flock of
winged
feathers
pass
through
the gray
wet veil
as though
in a Chinese
painting.
Black wings
flutter
and are
gone,
curving
around the
bend
in a
breath
heading North,
led
by instinct
through
summer’s
fog.

Cypress tree
sits
at
world’s edge,
grows faint
through
thick
wet
air;
branches,
black and
strong,
bend
towards
lapping waves
as if
to hear
God’s
early
morning
prayers.

 

 Diane Sherman  /  May 14, 2007