GENIE’S LAMP: Droughtful
By GENIE NAKANO
Sky, you’ve been holding on too long pour it on, we need rain for our droughtful minds
picking, poking on myself I’m all right and so is he not a Buddha yet
look in the mirror add a little crème and color to hell with it old gal— let your wrinkles smile let it go, let me be me
there’s more to let out of this cage the zebra goes first then others follow— some crawl, swim, some even fly
a blinkin’ wink for a merry old sun as clouds drift out of mind a rainbow arcs across a Monet sky
take a break for care have some gingered tea then back to the cushion make nonsense out of sense let it go…
Genie Nakano is widely published in journals, and her recent books, Enter the Stream and Storyteller are available on Amazon. She teaches gentle yoga and tanka at the Japanese Cultural Center in Gardena. Genie can be reached by email.