TINY FROGS
a praying man understands poetry
as a bird understands its song
as the tiny frog chirps in rhythm
and the flying insects buzz as background
to an understanding unplanned
background rhythm to songs
poet's music praying
singing to the birds
offering a hand to insects
stepping to those rhythms
of those tiny frogs
there is only silence
when the prayer stops
to understand the poetry
and the tiny frogs
snap and catch the buzzing insect
the action
is the moment
to stop
is the silence
where poetry
becomes
prayer
A. MENDOZA, 2017