Mount Kōya Sunrise Meditation 
By Gerard Sarnat             

Top of the world, chanting       
with the monks and the birds
Warm our waking earth.         
     

Mount Kōya Daybreak Healing Prayers   
By Gerard Sarnat

South of Osaka’s smokestacks,
cable car to top of the world, 
heightened 


past the mercenaries,
I chant with monks and birds:
Warm our waking earth.


Loving kindness meditation 
shifts to mindful:
Cool our dying globe.

Gerard Sarnat MD’s won San Francisco Poetry’s Contest, Poetry in Arts First Place Award/Dorfman Prizes. Nominated for Pushcarts/Best of Net Awards, Gerry’s published in Hong Kong Review, Tokyo Journal, Buddhist Review, Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Arkansas Review, Hamilton-Stone Review, New Haven Institute, Texas Review, Vonnegut Journal, Brooklyn Review, SF Magazine, LA Review, NY Times plus by Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Chicago, Columbia presses. He’s authored collections Homeless Chronicles, Disputes, 17s, Melting Ice King. Stanford professor/healthcare CEO, Gerry’s built/staffed clinics for the marginalized, devoted energy/resources toward climate justice on Climate-Action-Now’s board. Married since 1969, Gerry’s nine grand/kids. gerardsarnat.com

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