Echoes of the Moment
Before I was able to relinquish my tenuous grasp on consciousness,
After writing through the relentless sighing of night,
The irresistible call of the brightness of the spring morning sun,
Pulled my heart and mind to delay fitful sleep,
And instead to persist a while longer,
In order to enjoy a few moments of blissful, temperate,
And delightful contemplation of the season’s gifts.
Waves of sunlight, gentle breaths of wind, and the tranquil
Murmur of memories—echoes of the moment—
Invite the sun’s radiant beauty to streak across the void;
As it lands upon my skin, I relish its gentle but persistent touch,
Reaching my face like the hand of a dear friend,
With a warm and comfortable gesture which soothes my
Most troublesome aches with loving thoughts.
This day, the whispering breeze persuaded my hair
To swing away from my face and tickle my neck.
Birds click and coo pleasingly in the distance as I close my eyes;
Inside me, staring contentedly at the blazing red surface
Of closed eyelids, I enjoy the passing refrain of a distant train,
Competing with a buzzing lawn mower down the street,
As the echoes of the moment reverberate in my consciousness.
The cat wants to have my attention, but I’m not ready,
So she reluctantly falls asleep at my feet like she’s always been there.
© May 2019 by JJHIII24
John's Consciousness 
wow, very gentle vision
Thomas Merton, the well known Trappist Monk, writer, and activist who wrote extensively about contemplation, once wrote:
“There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.”
In order to awaken our inner resources and to investigate the ineffable aspects of our very human spirit, it is essential that we allow time for contemplation of this type, and even when we may suppose that our efforts aren’t as productive as we would wish in a particular moment, life can surprise us. Merton also concluded that:
“The important thing in contemplation is not gratification and rest, but awareness, life, creativity, and freedom. In fact, contemplation is man’s highest and most essential spiritual activity…Not something general and abstract, but something, on the contrary, as concrete, particular, and ‘existential’ as it can possibly be.”
I’ll be writing more about this shortly and I appreciate your comment very much….John H.