Poetry Challenge: Day 12

I am extraordinarily behind in the poetry challenge. The last few days have swept me up in a steady current of obligations leaving me weary and uninspired to write at day's end. I just took a jog this morning though and thoughts came flooding upon me while I spent time in the middle of the woods on a beautiful morning here in Connecticut.

I wrote down what came to me in the form of a crude and rather unfinished poem but figured I'd use it to  start back up in the poetry challenge today. Even though I'm disappointed my posts have not been too regular I don't want to give up. As I tell my children, when you fall you just have to shake the dust from your pants and keep moving on. So here's today's try at a poem. I'd like to try to edit and revise it at some point but if I waited to do that I probably wouldn't post anything today! So here it is. :

Every moment unfolds

 the death and resurrection of Spirit.

We need look no further
to find Heaven

Then in This

              very 

                  moment.
Falcon swoops across the trail,

Spreading wings open wide

swallowing the Kosmos in her simple embrace,

tiny hairs on feathers ruffled by eternity's breath.

Water drops like transluscent pearls down the jagged walls

of cliffs, dissolving in oneness with Earth so yielding.
I long to lay down

and merge as one with ground and sky

Where reality blossoms revealing

love transcendent.
Where joy springs up as light.
Where buddhas are born.


Thoughts? I'd love to hear them! Please leave them in the comments section!
(And yes...I really did see a falcon this morning! She was beautiful!)