Mother's Meditation

By Richard Kirsch


The Buddha sits smiling

In the Mother’s Garden

Sits peacefully

Mind empty and mindful

Breathing in the spring fragrance

Of the colored bursts of energy

That surrounds his sitting sereneness.

The mother plants each flower

With a prayer for peace in her soul

And in the souls of all her children

To embrace the flow of time from

Spring through summer to fall

To the brace of winter

And the renewal of spring.

Richard Kirsch meditates each day sitting on a pillow given to him by his daughters.