Skip to content
Inquiring Mind
Inquiring Mind
  • Home
  • Issues
  • Contributors
    • Writers
    • Interviewees
    • Artists
  • Contents
  • Topics
  • About
    • History
    • Masthead
    • Copyright and Permissions
    • Mailing List / Privacy
    • FAQ
  • Donate
Search for:
Your Support Makes Inquiring Mind Possible
Freedom
Fall 2006   Vol. 23 #1
Fall 2006   Vol. 23 #1

Poems/Not Poems

A Zebra Moment

By Freddy Niagara Fonseca

 
 

 

1

It’s what you don’t see

that often matters most.

 

2

Today, a zebra slowly

crossed a zebra crossing,

becoming invisible

for just a split second

as the striped pavement

aligned with his stripes . . .

 

3

What a perfect moment

of stillness all over town,

candidly making you see

the unexpected right here!

The whole world did stop

on the spot for one zebra . . .

 

4

And suddenly all traffic is

racing around the sun again.

 

 

 

From the Fall 2006 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 23, No. 1)
© 2006 Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Author

Freddy Niagara Fonseca loves the unexpected in both the writing and performing of poetry. His fondest desire is to bring poetry back to its rightful home—that is, in our own hearts—using as many imaginative ways as possible.

Author

Freddy Niagara Fonseca loves the unexpected in both the writing and performing of poetry. His fondest desire is to bring poetry back to its rightful home—that is, in our own hearts—using as many imaginative ways as possible.

 
 
Your Support Makes this Archive Possible
 
 
 
© Copyright 1984-2023. All rights reserved.
Sati Center for Buddhist Studies