One Mindful Moment

Royal Engineer

Tiny, paint-bare Sapper waits,

Still head erect, bugle ready

For Isandlwana,

Red Rorke's Drift.

 

Dragonfly

Clinging to the sedge,

A  dragonfly, expanding,

 breathes the world into itself,

then soars -

becomes, itself, a part of the world.