Haiku to Vision of Bronze Buddha

Steam curls and rises
above the forest treetops,
below the high perch.

Murmuring water
travels on the breath of breeze,
a hidden streamlet.

Overlooking all,
serenely sits the Buddha,
his bronze gaze unchanged.

His pose is stillness
on the edge of the mountain.
His moment is now.

Supreme attention
to the center of stillness
finds the path to joy.

~Flame RavenHawk
   March 27, 2002