VIBRANT LOVINGKINDNESS DECALOGUE+
i. Awareness searching
in all directions, I hold
myself the dearest.
ii. Core of non-self – or’s
this more solipsistic than
true altruism?
iii. Master acrobat
and apprentice: caring for
me protects others.
iv. May all beings be
happy and healthy, secure
on the path to peace.
v. Practice compassion –
short as a finger snap, long
as eternity.
vi. No malice, no hate,
take time to appreciate
every creature.
vii. Each monsoon season’s
three-month retreat inspires
enlightenment soon.
viii. Grove of verdant trees,
we sit beneath, settle deep
in liberation.
ix. Bankrupting the earth,
you and I must pay our debt
back so grandkids thrive.
x. STEM guy writes haiku
‘cause more mathematical
if less artistic.
Gerard Sarnat MD’s won San Francisco Poetry’s 2020 Contest, Poetry in Arts First Place Award/Dorfman Prizes; nominated for handfuls of 2021/previous Pushcarts/Best of Net Awards; authored HOMELESS CHRONICLES, Disputes, 17s, Melting Ice King. He’s widely published including by academic-related journals Stanford, Oberlin, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Pomona, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia, University Chicago; Ulster, Gargoyle, MainStreetRag, Northampton Review, New Haven Poetry Institute, American Journal Poetry, Vonnegut Journal, 2020 International-Human-Rights-Art-Festival, Poetry Quarterly, New Delta Review, Buddhist Review, Brooklyn Review, LA Review, Monterey Poetry Review, San Francisco Magazine, New York Times. Mount Analogue selected KADDISH for distribution nationwide Inauguration Day.
Amethyst Review 
Loved these senryu.
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