Later

turns out every prayer

is answered

yes - no - later

no quick conduit to God

even monks have to wait

lately I've rounded out

and aged into the time

of seeing old prayers answered

yeah - dusty  - almost forgotten,

but answered all the same

praying

is the miracle

a monk's list

i)

monk robes cinched up

for work

sweeping  - a typical monk duty

brewing - (more coffee than tea these days)

lessons, poems, prayers

dawn devotions done

the guitar pulled out

to play a new song.

ii) 

thick flat carpenter's pencil

stuck up under the brim

of a gifted baseball hat

marking out lines - 

crossing duties off the list

Love the Poets

sure there is always guru Gord 

then there is the younger ones...

John -  a master of sorrow

he'll break your heart sweetly

Benjamin - a young teacher from the hills:

there's nothing learned from resentment

Charlie - the man that time forgot

Colter - he's writing songs 

after a hard day ranching

keep the poems coming

all you poets

all you poets everywhere