Passing Moments

The sea is calm today

a great blue bowl of light...

awaiting my notice.

Too often I am so busy

living in my own head...

that I fail to attend to

either the sea, the clouds or

the sweet rush of a rising wind...

Deserving or not,

I am showered with gifts...

So why do I choose

an inner landscape

filled with...whatever...

when all of life—

here and now

bursting with beauty

is calling...calling

urging me to grasp it...

and celebrate

each passing moment?

Endangered Species